[db-wg] Geolocation data prototype in the RIPE Database

07.10.2011 17:03, Hendrik T. Voelker пишет:
> Actually you are mixing things up.
>
> The IP address itself is of cause not private. It is a simple
> technicality to ensure that data can be delivered properly. But it
> does normally not tell you much about it's user - beside maybe which
> upstream provider he uses.
>
> As soon as you start attaching a geolocation to an IP address this
> changes. And this change touches areas were privacy concerns are valid.
>
> The geolocation - regardless if as coordinates or a postal address -
> are for the user alone to reveal on his choice.
I doesn't see any difference.  How can you be sure NOW that's your
provider doesn't expose such kind of information by other method - for
example, by DNS-names or something like that? It's kind of "security via
obscurity", no more, and as you know, it's not really secure at all.

-- 
With best regards,
Dennis Yusupoff,
network engineer of
Smart-Telecom ISP
Russia, Saint-Petersburg



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