List Archive (Was: Re: p2p, anonymity and security)

[Travis Roy]

>>However, I think that the posting of the whois information was not only
>>unnecessary, but completely inappropriate to the discussion. 
> 
> 
> And *I* think it was entirely appropriate given the context of the
> discussion. Whois information is publically available - just like your
> voting information, property tax info, EIN (if you're a corporation),
> ...

Thanks for the backing Bruce. And those are some good points. It's 
amazing the ammount of "public" information there is about people if you 
just drive down to town hall, and with more and more towns and cities 
going on the internet some of them are putting this data online.

People get so up in arms about privacy, yet do things that just don't 
make sense when it comes to protecting their own. They use credit cards 
willy nilly, they give their SSN out to everybody they do business with 
because they require it for "security".