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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/26/2012 6:55 PM, Patrick Klos
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Chu, Yi [NTK] wrote:
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<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Good
story
aside, some people may not appreciate the fact that any
anonymous
person on earth can track them down, especially the pizza guy
had no
business in the network.<br>
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I take this story as indication that the current system is
lacking
concern for privacy.<br>
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I don't think the story has any privacy implications whatsoever?
It
was just a good story about how resourceful some people can be
when
they need to contact someone who is otherwise incommunicado! (and
I
suspect the pizza guy was somehow compensated for his "delivery"?)<br>
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If a person or entity has resources on the [public] Internet, and
those
resources are misbehaving in one way or another, why shouldn't
"any
anonymous person on earth" be able to track down the owner or
operator/ISP of those resources to make sure they're aware of the
bad
behavior?? Whether people "appreciate" that level of
responsibility or
not, they get it when they sign up for the [public] Internet.<br>
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If one of my hosts on one of my networks was causing an issue or
not
working properly, I hope that some kind [anonymous] person would
attempt to contact me ASAP so I can deal with the issue. I have
no
reason to hide from anyone, and I certainly don't want any of my
equipment to cause trouble for my customers or anyone else on the
Internet!<br>
<br>
Patrick Klos<br>
Klos Technologies, Inc.<br>
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The only alternative to public disclosure and the sort of
cooperative policing of the internet as it exists today is to form,
and fund, an official "internet police" force that has the legal
means, and authority, to investigate all the internet players. This
is normally how societies deal with this issue in the physical
world. For the current experiment to work, privacy does take a back
seat. It remains to be seen how long the current situation will
last.<br>
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-lee<br>
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