I’m not even going to link to the blog post they put up recently, but I’m sure you can find it if you want.
So a dude bought some plugins and in those plugins snuck some links/urls to spam sites he owns. Yes, it’s shady and awful practice. Is it illegal? No. Is it ok to call out the plugins so people ditch them? Absolutely.
But is it cool to post their full name a bunch of personal information and photos? FUCK NO. That is entirely uncalled for and fucked up.
This guy isn’t pushing malware. He’s not hacking your mainframe, bro. He’s doing some sleezy back linking shit. There is not a single thing about that which makes it appropriate for WF to put screen grabs of his LinkedIn profile on their post.
Wordfence is starting a witch hunt. I remember when those got banned on Reddit and you know why? Because it’s wrong. It can quickly escalate to mass harassment or worse. You don’t put up other people’s personal information on the web. Period.
I am absolutely flabbergasted that they had the gaul to put up a blog post like that.
Right on. I thought I was the only person to see that and think “WTF”?
“Doxxing” someone like that is just as shady and sleazy as the plugin owners antics. More so, actually because a company like Wordfence should be held to a higher standard than a shady backlink “HaX0r”