On 2010/12/22 19:18, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
On 19 Dec 2010, at 19:51, Derek Smythe wrote:
Derek
The reality of this issue is that the normal internet user, be it a small business or an individual, has not real protection on the internet.
The flipside to this is that registrants have a right to privacy and a degree of protection. The "normal" user wants to be able to register and use domain names without publishing their private details.
Yes we all know there are criminals out there, but there are plenty of other ways to get to them other than WHOIS of a domain name.
And if the normal user registers "the largest online recruiting agency in the world" (money mules) with private whois? Or a domain used for a bank that looks remarkably like your favourite bank? Yes, there are other ways, but this was "supposed" to be one of the ways of knowing who you are dealing with. So are we to reject anything from now on, ignoring rules set, because we have a good excuse to do so? I think not.
The registrar is held blameless and the victim of internet abuse cannot hold him liable.
Which is correct in my view.
If I sold kitchen knives and you happened to use one to commit murder it wouldn't be reasonable to hold me liable UNLESS I had sold you the knife to commit murder ..
If you keep on selling knives to the same guy that has stabbed 12 people on various occasions outside your knife shop while you are aware of this?
ICANN is not interested in abuse issues, it is outside their gambit despite creating an environment ideal for abuse.
That is a wonderfully inflammatory statement
But sadly reality.
As for law enforcement, law enforcement only deals with the most serious issues.
Which is normal. It's not up to law enforcement to go around enforcing IP interests.
How did we get to IP interests? Read http://www.scribd.com/doc/45487838/Balsam-v-Tucows-No-09-17625-9th-Cir-Dec-1... again. What about cyber crime in all it's forms?
A simple reality is they are absolutely flooded with ongoing issues.
That does leave the normal internet user vulnerable to exploitation.
You could extend the same logic to the offline / tangible / real world ..
Taken to its logical (though somewhat perverse) conclusion then we should all be hiding in bunkers.
Yes and no. The issue is we are dealing with virtual parties that do not exist in many cases, using mechanisms that hides their location etc. This is extremely different to a "real world" scenario. Would you register a house/car/gun on your name for me, without having verified in depth that I'm in good standing and I am really who I say I am? What else is privacy protection in most cases? The problem at hand is not the ratio of good/bad registrants, but the environment created by current mechanisms that allow a handful of registrants to abuse domains and in general internet facilities, spoiling it for the rest of the non-malicious users. Yet LE/governments have an obligation to protect their citizens in most civilized countries and when they get involved, they tend to do so with a sledgehammer approach. Yet we want to cry foul when it happens, yet we fail to do so ourselves with self regulation? Derek
Regards
Michele
PS: The only time I've been a victim of crimes has been offline - wallets stolen, cars vandalised and debit cards skimmed ..
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