[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Krebs On Security article RE whois and GDRP

[John Bambenek]

And there are security researchers who have filed abuse complaints with registries or hosting providers who have had those complaints forwards whole and entire to criminals. And those researchers have had their lives threatened. 

No one is saying their aren’t privacy risks in whois. Making whois privacy for free for individuals mitigates that risk. It seems there are some who basically want a global whois blackout not realizing there are a great deal of privacy risks MITIGATED with access to whois. 

Our participation in this list has been one of consistent ignoring of this ground truth. 

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John Bambenek

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 20:17, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:
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> The comments are certainly worth a read. I have observed one commenter note that they use WHOIS to dox others. Very troubling, and in line with this comment submitted by Anriette Esterhuysen of APC to ICANN last month, where she noted that, "These are not just hypothetical or trivial risks. An APC staff member whose address was included in the WHOIS database received a death threat directed at herself and her family."
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> — Ayden 
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>> On 16 February 2018 1:07 AM, Dotzero <dotzero at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/new-eu-privacy-law-may-weaken-security/
>> Michael Hammer
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