<p dir="ltr">On Jun 24, 2013 4:34 PM, "Benedikt Stockebrand" <<a href="mailto:bs@stepladder-it.com">bs@stepladder-it.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> customers, that's ok, but when I reason that making certain information<br>
> too readily available to end users may increase the likelyhood some way</p>
<p dir="ltr">That same information, that is, contact information about your company, is absolutely not available elsewhere? </p>
<p dir="ltr">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</p>
<p dir="ltr">> more serious incidents it's a "one in a million type occurrence"?<br>
> Sorry, I can't follow that reasoning</p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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). </p>
<p dir="ltr">> his mails to abuse-c systematically ignored. When he resorted to legal<br>
> means he was told "nobody here bothers to read those mails anyway" by<br>
> the attacker's ISP.</p>
<p dir="ltr">One incompetent or complicit isp.. Rather more common than death threats or voodoo curses, but still no reason to suppress this information </p>
<p dir="ltr">--srs<br>
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