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Re: Editorial: ICANN's WHOIS Policy Shift Would Be CriminalNe gligence
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:04:23 -0400
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:25 PDT, John LaCour said:
One of the potential issues with hiding WHOIS info is that it prevents domain host owner/operators from being contacted in the case that their legitimate internet presence is being used malciously by a 3rd party.
A small technical point here - in that particular case, you don't really care if you're contacting the owner/operators. What you care about is that you're contacting somebody with the ability and authority to get something done about the situation. Of course, this *does* get murky when you're asking yourself "Do I contact the listed person because their box is compromised, or do I *not* do so because I suspect the box is *not* compromised and the listed person is blackhat?".
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