> -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-smtp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted > Lemon > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 1:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] [Shutup] Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers > Unhealthy To User Privacy" WG (fwd) > > Wednesday, Dec 2, 2015 12:40 PM John Levine wrote: > > You can kind of tell where I am from my mail headers, but since my > > name and address and phone number are in the phone book, it's hard to > > imagine what the damage would be. > > The damage is that there are quite a few John Levines in the world. If you > say something that triggers someone's desire to harass you, they will be able > to use your IP address to determine that it is the John Levine who lives in > Trumansburg who offended them, and then they can just google "John > Levine Trumansburg" to dox or swat you. This is _precisely_ the problem > with revealing your IP address. It took me about ten minutes to get your > home address, and that's because I don't have any practice. Without the IP > address, I would have had no chance of figuring out _which_ John Levine to > target with my notional swatting or pizza delivery. It would have taken <1 > minute to find your street address except that you did a good job of chaffing > by using a P.O. Box. >
It took me 20 seconds using google and no IP Addresses were harmed in the testing - https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=john+levine. BTW John, congratulations on your page ranking. I've refrained from getting into this conversation but increasingly my sense is that Ted has a solution that is seeking a problem. Mike _______________________________________________ Shutup mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/shutup
