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Comment by jcq3 | Hacker News Reader

How such supposedly talented hacker end up to be doxxed? It's not that hard to become 99.99% anonymous online...

Technically easy, operationally virtually impossible - everyone will slip up eventually.

Also, the need for recognition often drives any human endeavour - and that leads hackers, criminals, etc to boast of their exploits to at least someone … who might be under observation, or under pressure to give up information to escape severe punishment for their own activities.

Prolly the need for recognition because if you hack from public wifi with tails tor mullvad, brand new laptop with specific hardware and so on I don't see how you can get caught up

Don't forget the time machine to go back to warn past self about the one time they slip up just prior to when they decide to really go all in on the haxoring.

Some parts of the internet never forget, and the anonymous graph is only anonymous if all of it is anonymous. 99.999% isn't good enough.

No doxxing was necessary, Tillie did it all publically, publishing on a home server, making announcements on Telegram under their real name. I don't quite get it either, but they specifically didn't want to hide in (pseudo)anonymity.

Can Confirm. I was big into telegram communities at that time and joined when her group was public. I have nothing to prove because I delete all my stuff but the indictment shows screenshots and transcripts from the group. She literally posted selfies on Twitter sometimes.

I don't agree with most of her more radical views and find her methods to be too extreme, but she clearly stood behind them and didn't hide

crimew's stated viewpoint and goals are "radical transparency". Hiding her legal name would go against this goal. It has nothing to do with competency and everything to do with her worldview.

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