For me (and I'd imagine most folks coming to a board called "Hacker News"), doxxing independent security researchers for the crime of port scanning is highly unethical behavior, and this vigilante crusade to doxx hackers is appearing to generate yet more collateral damage in the reckless pursuit of clout.
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.
I must have missed that. Could you find that article for me?
> 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...
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...
When people make a bad mistake, you don't just press a reset button after and judge their next, related bad mistake in isolation.
Yes, Krebs' does his own research, but he also has hundreds of security researchers and contacts that provide him info, many of those are insiders. In his book Spam Nation, he even goes to Russia to visit a crime boss to ask tough questions. This isn't some cyberstalker.
Krebs is a better researcher than most, so I tend to trust his doxx. Most of the info he publishes is already public (poor opsec) and he is more thorogh than Reddit. Can he be wrong? Sure..... should he doxx? I don't know, that's an ethics question.. but if he's wrong on this, I'm sure Brian will reconsider that in the future