RE: Database security

["Barak Engel" <]

Hi,

> Lets discuss, what measures should be taken to circumvent the situation you
describe.
> I can see the problem from two different point of views:
>
> 1) Yours. Then we have to close the database down, to a bare
>    documentation-tool for IP-Nets, accessible only by the registries.

 Thats not what I said. For example, the DB could only hide specific fields
behind a password. For example, the "descr" field which gives away the company
name.

> 2) Mine. I need the database to track technical problems and people who are
able to  solve them. (hopefully, this view is shared by most of the people here
;))

 Including myself. But on the other hand, there is a problem here which, I feel,
needs to be addressed. The database structure was implemented in times when the
Internet was not so business oriented as it is today. I think that it may need
some rethinking to fit the times, so to speak :-)

> The security mechanism, which is in place, is not technical, it is just
organisational. There is a copyright on the database. The uses, you describe,
are forbidden by this copyright.
>
> If someone violates this copyright, at least in Germany there are other
measures to forbid such a  use of the database.

 Well, lucky for you in Germany :-)
 Seriously, though, there is no way in which you could actually prove, in court,
the sort of thing I describe. I am talking from personal experience... *sigh*

 10x again,

  Sincerely,            \'"'/
     Barak Engel       ( o o )
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