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So on the most practical level, if she obscured his name, there would be zero verifiable evidence for her identification. Providing a name means other people can check the work, and potentially build on it.
On the social level, attaching behavior to names is one of the principal ways investigations (journalistic and legal) work because legal identifiers let us trace connections.
Like, I'd argue that this is classic investigative journalism: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/
…but without attaching behaviors to names, a story like that Krebs post would be nothing but an unverifiable conspiracy theory.
(If BI had also published his photo, phone number, and home address, that would strike me as an unjustified disclosure of private info and flip this from investigative journalism into doxxing.)
So on the most practical level, if she obscured his name, there would be zero verifiable evidence for her identification. Providing a name means other people can check the work, and potentially build on it.
On the social level, attaching behavior to names is one of the principal ways investigations (journalistic and legal) work because legal identifiers let us trace connections.
Like, I'd argue that this is classic investigative journalism: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/
