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02-27-2008, 04:47 PM
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CNET's Declan McCullagh says (http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9879859-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) the Senate is considering a bill that would make phishing illegal. The only problem? It already is. 'Ole Tubes Stevens is back again, this time with the Anti-phishing Consumer Protection Act (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/SnoweStevensAntiPhishing.pdf), which Stevens claims (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=249069&Month=2&Year=2008) "empowers states and the federal government to pursue these criminals with significant fines and imprisonment." McCullagh notes however that in addition to not doing anything that isn't already on the books, the law potentially makes keeping your domain registration private a federal offense. From the bill:It is unlawful for the registrant of a domain name used in any commercial activity to register such domain name in any Whois database with false or misleading identifying information, including the registrant's name, physical address, telephone number, facsimile number, or electronic mail address...
It is unlawful for a domain name registrar...to shield, mask, block or otherwise restrict access to, any domain name registrant's name, physical address, telephone number, facsimile number, or electronic mail address, or other identifying information in any Whois database...
That's obviously not much fun for those who reasonably don't want their domain registration information made available to every weirdo on the Ted Steven Intertubes. One gets the feeling that the 84-year-old Stevens, currently under Federal corruption investigation (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmLBNb0ftUQqqJ1FqRDMgYbpw-LgD8UUTFC81), might want to give technology law a rest for a while.
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CNET's Declan McCullagh says (http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9879859-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) the Senate is considering a bill that would make phishing illegal. The only problem? It already is. 'Ole Tubes Stevens is back again, this time with the Anti-phishing Consumer Protection Act (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/SnoweStevensAntiPhishing.pdf), which Stevens claims (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=249069&Month=2&Year=2008) "empowers states and the federal government to pursue these criminals with significant fines and imprisonment." McCullagh notes however that in addition to not doing anything that isn't already on the books, the law potentially makes keeping your domain registration private a federal offense. From the bill:It is unlawful for the registrant of a domain name used in any commercial activity to register such domain name in any Whois database with false or misleading identifying information, including the registrant's name, physical address, telephone number, facsimile number, or electronic mail address...
It is unlawful for a domain name registrar...to shield, mask, block or otherwise restrict access to, any domain name registrant's name, physical address, telephone number, facsimile number, or electronic mail address, or other identifying information in any Whois database...
That's obviously not much fun for those who reasonably don't want their domain registration information made available to every weirdo on the Ted Steven Intertubes. One gets the feeling that the 84-year-old Stevens, currently under Federal corruption investigation (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmLBNb0ftUQqqJ1FqRDMgYbpw-LgD8UUTFC81), might want to give technology law a rest for a while.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Ted-Tubes-Stevens-Tries-To-Fight-Phishing-92212)