Hardly. He&#x27;s asking permission to talk to them in the first place, and presumably asked permission to use their names in the article. And the article body mentions them by name. <i>And</i> the article is about <i>how to find them in the first place</i>.<p>You&#x27;re advocating blurring the names out but then telling readers how to find them very easily (it&#x27;s the point of the article) - this would justifiably open the author to ridicule.