> Bellingcat claims that anyone capable of Googling can get dox on any random Russian, including someone high up in the FSB. So try it! Pick a random person off

> Bellingcat claims that anyone capable of Googling can get dox on any random Russian, including someone high up in the FSB. So try it! Pick a random person off the internet and go get those dox. It's a free for all, right? > Otherwise what you are reading is a poorly retconned explanation of how a foreign intelligence operation got some data. Like pointed out elsewhere, it's not "Bellingcat" claiming that it's easy to do -- it's literally everyone. * The Bell: https://thebell.io/million-za-vseh-skolko-stoilo-rassledovanie-bellingcat-o-navalnom https://thebell.io/million-za-vseh-skolko-stoilo-rassledovan... * BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48348307 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48348307 * Kommersant: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4616645 https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4616645 * Teiss: https://www.teiss.co.uk/moscow-car-owners-data-sale/ https://www.teiss.co.uk/moscow-car-owners-data-sale/ I have no interest in navigating the stolen databases myself but plenty of other journalists have and confirm just everything exists like Belligcat says. Is it possible that Bellingcat were tipped off and used the databases to parallel construct their investigation? Sure? I guess? But it's exactly how they have performed many of their other investigations in Russia so I find it highly unlikely.