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I think making this tool readily available right now is doing to result in a lot of people being doxxed who otherwise wouldn’t be.

Some people would just lose interest if there isn’t an easy tool immediately available, and also it would give potential victims or image hosts more time to fix or delete vulnerable pics.



Making such tool is trivial. Someone would have done it already, all you need is to point people's attention at the issue.


Just because making something that enables novice-computer-user bad actors is trivial, does not somehow justify it being ethical to do so.

What if we just... thought twice about making it this easy?


Since bad actors were likely going to provide such tool really soon anyway, providing it along with the announcement for potential victims to check their files wasn't probably a bad idea.




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