[anti-abuse-wg] central whois

On Jun 24, 2013 4:34 PM, "Benedikt Stockebrand" <bs at stepladder-it.com>
wrote:

> customers, that's ok, but when I reason that making certain information
> too readily available to end users may increase the likelyhood some way

That same information, that is, contact information about your company, is
absolutely not available elsewhere?

Any maniac out to  issue a death threat may well use any other way to
deliver that threat, rather than a ripe whois contact address

> more serious incidents it's a "one in a million type occurrence"?
> Sorry, I can't follow that reasoning

After having worked on and managed large isp abuse desks for millions of
users for about fifteen + years, I regret to report that I have yet to
receive any death threats.

OK, maybe that one nigerian in 2004 who wanted to practice voodoo on me
after I killed some extremely high value accounts of his (the sort used
higher up the food chain of a scam).

> his mails to abuse-c systematically ignored.  When he resorted to legal
> means he was told "nobody here bothers to read those mails anyway" by
> the attacker's ISP.

One incompetent or complicit isp.. Rather more common than death threats or
voodoo curses, but still no reason to suppress this information

--srs
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