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Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Re: Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Post by poooogles »

proaralyst wrote: post #9
krona wrote: post #6

There is a newspaper claiming he's now working with GCHQ. I doubt such information is true, but given what happened to Gareth Williams in similar circumstances, I'd suggest it's egregiously irresponsible for a newspaper to even suggest it given everyone now knows who he is.

For those curious as I was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

Never knew about the claims around the SVR, at the time it seemed way to convenient to be what the investigation claimed.

And SIS/GCHQ wonder why they have such a hard time recruiting staff.

Re: Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Post by tonmoy »

tudorconstantin wrote: post #8

If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it. Maybe he'll take some measures to protect himslef more now. I would've liked to see the journalists find the hackers behind this. That would've been an achievement indeed.

I would have liked to see a story from the journalists on how easy it was for them to find the guy and then they had responsibility alerted the person on those points w/o revealing his name (you know like what security researchers do)

Re: Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Post by Ntrails »

poooogles wrote: post #11
proaralyst wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those curious as I was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

Never knew about the claims around the SVR, at the time it seemed way to convenient to be what the investigation claimed. And SIS/GCHQ wonder why they have such a hard time recruiting staff.

I'm not sure this has any impact on the ability of the services to recruit staff, compared to things like compensation, or having to fill in "permission to socialise" forms...

I don't think anyone much thought it was anything but an extremely suspicious death. In many ways matching almost too perfectly the imaginary world of Spies we like to watch/read about.

Re: Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Post by infinity0 »

tudorconstantin wrote: post #8

If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it. Maybe he'll take some measures to protect himslef more now. I would've liked to see the journalists find the hackers behind this. That would've been an achievement indeed.

Yeah, but they would have had to waste several dozen man hours having to redo the work that the British media did for them, for free. Cunts.

Re: Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Post by dagw »

tudorconstantin wrote: post #8

If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it. Maybe he'll take some measures to protect himslef more now. I would've liked to see the journalists find the hackers behind this. That would've been an achievement indeed.

If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it.

How do you figure? Digging through information and finding out this sort of stuff is literally what journalists do for a living.

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