[db-wg] Geolocation data prototype in the RIPE Database
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Dennis Yusupoff
dyr at smartspb.net
Fri Oct 7 17:19:29 CEST 2011
07.10.2011 17:03, Hendrik T. Voelker пишет: > Actually you are mixing things up. > > The IP address itself is of cause not private. It is a simple > technicality to ensure that data can be delivered properly. But it > does normally not tell you much about it's user - beside maybe which > upstream provider he uses. > > As soon as you start attaching a geolocation to an IP address this > changes. And this change touches areas were privacy concerns are valid. > > The geolocation - regardless if as coordinates or a postal address - > are for the user alone to reveal on his choice. I doesn't see any difference. How can you be sure NOW that's your provider doesn't expose such kind of information by other method - for example, by DNS-names or something like that? It's kind of "security via obscurity", no more, and as you know, it's not really secure at all. -- With best regards, Dennis Yusupoff, network engineer of Smart-Telecom ISP Russia, Saint-Petersburg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 552 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20111007/f9269705/attachment.sig>
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