Also: “I’m going to do the hacking anonymously” (And raise a shit storm if I get doxxed or hacking)

Hey, my committing a crime (extortion) is OK because you’re committing a morally offensive act. It could be as low-level as harassing women leaving an abortion clinic or as high-level as genocide. Doesn’t matter.

Hacker logic: “I don’t care if you engage in a perfectly legal business enterprise! I am the ultimate digital moral authority and I decide what does and does not qualify as socially acceptable!”

A DOX is a DOX regardless of the target and is universally uncool. I for one am glad to see Ashley Madison and it’s child sites perish but this is entirely uncool and the way the tech community is relishing in it is entirely at odds with their “pro-privacy” and “Doxxing is wrong” stance elsewhere.

I am married, I have…

If this were a private data dump of women or LGBT, the treatment by gawker media would be 180 degrees different.