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Many Domains Registered With False Data
bakotaco writes "According to research carried out by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) many domain owners are hiding their true identity. The findings could mean that many websites are fronts for spammers, phishing gangs and other net criminals. The report also found that measures to improve information about domain owners were not proving effective." From the article: "The GAO took 300 random domain names from each of the .com, .org and .net registries and looked up the centrally held information about their owners. Any user can look up this data via one of the many whois sites on the net. The report found that owner data for 5.14% of the domains it looked at was clearly fake as it used phone numbers such as (999) 999-9999; listed nonsense addresses such as 'asdasdasd' or used invalid zip codes such as 'XXXXX'. In a further 3.65% of domain owner records data was missing or incomplete in one or more fields."
You would rather let the terrorist win then give away your privacy huh..Well you will have plenty of privacy in that casket when they send contaminants in the water, small tactical nukes in the airport and so on and so forth. I myself think this government is doing a piss poor job, but I don't think complete anonymity is the way to go.
~~"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." ~~Dennis Miller
Well you will have plenty of privacy in that casket when they send contaminants in the water, small tactical nukes in the airport and so on and so forth.
Apparently you are operating under the assumption that you will live forever... boy, do you have a big surprise coming.
I myself think this government is doing a piss poor job, but I don't think complete anonymity is the way to go.
It is not the government's job to protect you from any possible source of danger. For them to do so is essentially impossible. Anyway, the ultimate responsibility for your safety (or the safety of any individual) lies with you (or the individual in question).
Anway, that you cannot be required to identify yourself to anyone else is a fundamental right of free men. The parent post has it right, IMO. I'd just as soon see the terrorists "win" (whatever that means) befor seeing this country reduced to a caricature of itself, relative to the freedoms of the individuals which compose it.
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Yeah, I guess you are right... except in those cases that even our own government uses reprisal as a weapon in the face of criticism. Don't believe me? Ask Scooter Libbey and Karl Rove. So even if the USA, which purports itself to be a beacon of democracy to the rest of the world, treads on these freedoms, what hope have we that other places are not.
There is a reason our founding fathers chose to put freedom of speech in our constitution. Read the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson before you tak about revoking the prinicples on which this country was founded.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend with my life your right to be an idiot."
When you buy a house, you need to record your ownership details. Anyone can go and see who owns a block of land. How horrible. God forbid that anyone would exploit this private information.
Simply put: you lease a domain name, you are entering the area of publc property. Nobody is pointing a gun at your head and saying you have to get a domain name. Deal with it.
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