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I'm overall a fan of Krebs' work, but he has done some questionable things to reveal people's identities that feel more like immature spite, sometimes outside the context of any crime he's accusing the person of committing:

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/86867-infosec-r...

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Wow, thanks for posting that. My view of Krebs just got way more negative, I'll definitely be taking stuff I read from him with a very big grain of salt from now on.

Thanks for sharing context. That definitely reflects poorly on him and hurts his credibility.

When I read "an investigative journalist is publishing information alleging criminal activity" my reaction was "so what?" What you linked is not that.

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