Identifying a criminal is ethical.
This outsourcing of one's morals to the state is excessive even by already high western white collar internet standards.
Now, make no mistake, these guys are up to no good and probably should be identified and prosecuted, but to just declare that a bad thing is now good because government is doing it is basically an abdication of one's moral compass. At best this is still a bad thing but a necessary one because all the other options are worse. Like shooting someone in self defense, or putting someone in a cage for doing sufficiently bad things.
Edit: I'll admit I played too loose with ethics vs morality here, but still the point stands.
anyway individuals willingly give to teh state some autonomy in return for the safety of governance... that's the social contract free people have with government
"doxxing" a Russian ransomware group is the kind thing to do. bombing them out of existence is within the remit of the range of ideas a government could resort to...
>law
>legally
You keep using these words but it causes circular logic as those are all defined by the same entity that is acting unilaterally.
The action the government took was not a "good" action by any moral standard. But it was perhaps the least worse auction. Can't just whisk people off the street in a foreign country or drone them over such matters, those options would be worse.
I agree that “doxxing” is being misused in TFA, but criminals have privacy rights like anyone else. Violating these rights requires specific justification, it’s not automatically ethical.
[Edit] "An international search is underway for Daniil Maksimovich SHCHUKIN on suspicion of numerous counts of gang-related and commercial extortion using ransomware to the detriment of commercial enterprises, public facilities, and institutions."
No, if they just put UNKN on the most wanted list, then it wouldn't be doxing. But then they also tie UNKN together with "Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin", and that's the doxxing, regardless or not if it's on a most wanted list.
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Clear specialization, outsourcing, and reinvestment — very similar to how startups scale.
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That one is a classic for russian criminals and warlords.
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