Out-Law newsletter says IWF "was wrong to lift its ban on a Wikipedia page"

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <87vds3womb.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer
<fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes

>Unfortunately, this is not a problem specific to the UK, we've got it
>as well, and so do the US.  Unwarranted trust in WHOIS databases
>(which is promoted by your PhD thesis, by the way) 

hardly ...

I specifically discuss the hijacking of routes which occurred when ARIN
did not check documents carefully enough; and explain other issues with
BGP routing

see the whole of #3.5, not just the bit about traceroutes :)

... and the quotation at the start of chapter #3 is meant to be ironic !

>is a huge issue.
>Apparently, this will only stop after there's been a gross miscarriage
>of justice. 8-(

Hopefully not! Besides training on simple traceability, some parts of
the UK police have availed themselves of advanced training on BGP, which
should leave them in a much better position to understand these issues
and how database information can be validated on the real Internet

- -- 
richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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