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> but if he's wrong on this, I'm sure Brian will reconsider that in the future

If I remember right its not the first time he has gotten such things wrong, and mostly responded by blocking people criticizing him for it on Twitter.



> If I remember right its not the first time he has gotten such things wrong,

I must have missed that. Could you find that article for me?


It’s linked in the original article here. :)

> In March 2018, he came under fire from users of a German image board pr0gramm.com after he revealed details about several admins and moderators in an article which claimed to identify who was behind the cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive.

https://itwire.com/security/image-board-admins,-mods-doxxed-...

> In April last year, Krebs was again slammed by security researchers after he doxxed two of them on Twitter, apparently because he disagreed with them about the operations of Spamhaus.

https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...


Thanks!


There was the Shadow Brokers story, where he claimed to have identified the NSA leaker: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...

Then there was the thing where he doxxed two other researchers apparently just because, not even for assuming some crime: https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...


there was also his Thaddeus Zu/Ashley Madison story, which was pure conjecture




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