Discussion on Archive.today Privacy Concerns and Doxxing Ethics
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rabinovich
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article discusses concerns about an Hacker News post regarding archive.today, questioning whether it constitutes doxxing of the service's operator. The content examines the ethical boundaries between curiosity and privacy invasion, noting that while no real names appear to be revealed, the post has clearly struck a nerve with the archive.today operator who values privacy. The discussion centers on whether publishing investigative findings about someone who wants to remain anonymous respects privacy boundaries.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWell, you clearly do have struck a nerve. And the article at least comes off as the attempt to dox someone.
Curiosity is one thing, publishing these findings (where the original sources may fade in time) is another.
It's quite evident the person behind archive.today does not want the attention.
Just saying, your post doesn't exactly say respect privacy.
All that said, the post does not actually dox anyone (as far as I can tell, every name mentioned is an alias or red herring)
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