[anti-abuse-wg] Enabling community self-help?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Heather Schiller
<heather.skanks at gmail.com> wrote:
> The resource that RIPE NCC is provides (in exchange for money)
> directly enables them to commit their crime..  and worse provides them
> some amount of cover for it.

To use a similar - and very loaded - argument - look at gun shops.

The majority of people buying guns use them for home defense, hunting,
target shooting for fun, whatever.

There's a tiny minority who will buy the guns to actually go out and
rob a bank or murder someone or whatever.

That still means gun shops have a requirement to verify ID, and a gun
store owner telling a cop tracing a murder weapon that "I am not the
document police" would be in for a very interesting experience indeed.

Of if you don't like the idea of guns, try locksmith tools - the sale
of which is just as carefully controlled.  Or anything else at all
that is dual use in nature.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)