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In article <kgRXwc2w165w@srisoft.com> bill@srisoft.com (Bill W Smith Jr) writes:

   You are forgetting that not everyone is ON the Internet!!! I get my news
   via UUCP and WHOIS will not tell you who I am, or that I AM the SysAdmin
   for 2 sites...

Actually, it will...

SRI Software (SRISOFT-DOM)
   17314 Tomball Pkwy Suite 120
   Houston, TX 77064

   Domain Name: SRISOFT.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Knight, Harold  (HK58)  Knight@SRISOFT.COM
      (713) 955-2800
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Smith, Bill  (BS68)  donal@BREWICH.COM
      (713) 272-7346

Anybody who has a domain has a WHOIS entry, regardless of how they're
connected.   BTW, you're also listed under BREWICH.COM.

On the other hand, I'm a security weenie at Wells Fargo, and probably
the person who would be most able to make use of detailed descriptions
of security problems.   My name definitely isn't in the whois database
for wellsfargo.com.   Our networking group doesn't do security - just
networking.

I don't think it's realistic to believe we can keep this kind of
information out of the hands of crackers - they usually have more time
to kill tracking the stuff down, and often they're the ones that
uncover the holes in the first place.  It would definitely be a public
service to get it to the network defenders in as timely a fashion as
it gets to the attackers, so we at least have a fighting chance.

			       _MelloN_

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