[ppml] MOVED RE: [arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information

[Divins, David]

I am not securing systems with obscurity.  However, there is no reason to provide an easy directory/mapping of interesting private exchanges to specific subnets.

No, they are not necessarily in DNS.

-dsd
Growing weary but still going

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert E.Seastrom [mailto:rs at seastrom.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:05 AM
To: Divins, David
Cc: Internet Partners, Inc. Tech Support; ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [ppml] MOVED RE: [arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information


"Divins, David" <dsd at servervault.com> writes:

> I never said there is a law preventing companies from publishing this data. 
> However, the USA does have very strict privacy laws regarding to HIPPA
> healthcare information.  If HIPPA healthcare clearing system gets SWIPed it
> may provide a vector.

I'm not a HIPAA expert, but I'm fairly sure that "security in
obscurity" is not a HIPAA-compliant standard of locking things down.

                                        ---Rob