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I think uncovering the person / company behind Coinhive is not a bad idea. However, in doing so, Brian Krebs did several extremely questionable decisions and moves:

- publishing material by users he knew had trolled him to further the agenda that this is a right-wing site (it is not, the site has a huge fan base of Bernie Sanders and other leftist politicians)

- look at his tweets and headlines (on Vice Motherboard for example) that are used to promote the story: They are almost exclusively focusing the the Mathias Moench part, which is completely irrelevant to pr0gramm, Coinhive, and even the mindmap.

Given that, his whole article reeks of sensationalism, not journalism. This is fake news. Seeing reporters report about a thing you know well instills me with me with dread about how I believe their articles about the things I don't know well. I lost all the respect I had for Mr. Krebs work, and I am one step closer to losing respect for all journalists. Which isn't a bad thing, being aware how biased and badly researched publications are is not a bad thing.

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And yes, I understand that "German nazi separatist site registered on millionaires son who hired a hitman to kill his parents with a machete responsible for hottest crypto malware of the year"

sounds great to push the story. Except that it could not be farther from the truth. I just wasn't expecting someone who calls themselves an investigative journalist like Brian Krebs to try to beat the Sun (or Bild, for Germany) at their game.

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I used Pr0gramm to kill time in university ~4 years ago and I'd definitely say that it has become more right-wing. Sure there are still discussions and people from all over the spectrum around, but right populism does seem to dominate.