Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock
October 29, 2007 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
Vint Cerf works on his computer in his McLean, Va. home in this Sept. 6, 2005 file photo. After fending off an international rebellion and planting the seeds for streamlining operations, Cerf is stepping down this week as chairman of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers this week. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
(AP) -- Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords.
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Oct 30, 2007
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Yeah, right! I wonder if this is the theory behind our current world politics: break the world, in order to 'fix' it...
If they drop 'whois', the door is wide open for terrorists to use the internet freely to purpetrate their horrors upon the world.
Oct 30, 2007
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You may be on to something.
Our world IS pretty broken if the first thing you could think of in a world without whois is terrorism. That's sad.
What about spamming? Holding a company accountable when you can't track down the info any other way?
Amazing that terrorism struck your mind first.. what a sad, broken world we currently live in.
And you're absolutely right, things are pretty broken in world politics -- Iraq isn't doing so well. We broked it.
P.S. PERPETRATE.