<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">IMO, It's public information, so you've hardly breached any kind of privacy.... a 10 second visit to the apnic whois tells me that 'Karl Kloppenborg' is the admin/tech contact for dragnet's 203.26.196/22 ad 119.30/21 allocations, and hasn't been updated in quite some time..<br><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br></div><div>(who just went and reported invalid contacts for my previous employer, which went out of business in 2005!)</div><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On 21/07/2010, at 9:28 AM, Karl Kloppenborg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Noggers / Elly,<div><br></div><div>Firstly I would like to say thanks for your most valuable input (especially that of Elly)</div><div><br></div><div>This company is still thinking I breached my privacy agreement with them and now have started threatening me.</div><div><br></div><div>(before I continue I would like to state I am only seeking advise and unless it is explicitly said on your reply that I can, I will not use anything you say as a copy and past reference of any kind, this is mealy guidance to know where I stand)</div><div><br></div><div>To clarify what I had done, I had posted on my facebook as a bit of a joke with some mates of mine this:</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i>I find it very scary that </i><b><i>{REMOVED COMPANY NAME}</i></b><i> still has </i><b><i>{INSERT NETNAME FROM WHOIS}</i></b><i> set to extremely old information (including myself being the contact :S )</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><i>and its still set to MAINT-NEW????? Jesus."</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I have replaced the information regarding the company for obvious reasons :)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">So, other than the fact its an immature post am I in the wrong legally?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">have I legally breached something?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">have I in fact broken my privacy agreement (which is what they are saying I have done) ?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sorry this is more of a law question, but your opinions are valuable to me!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(21, 33, 246); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(21, 33, 246); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(21, 33, 246); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(5, 97, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(5, 97, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Cheers!<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Karl Kloppenborg</b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">On 20/07/2010, at 20:36, Darren Moss wrote:</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks Elly.<br><br>I know we have spoken about this before, and at the risk of banging on about it again, but....<br><br>If the abuse / other IP allocation contact information is *not* up to date / stale / wrong, how will APNIC contact the entity to have it corrected ?<br><br>The amount of time and effort my team has wasted chasing people, particularly in China and Singapore, to fix their rogue hosts amounts to hundreds of hours. <br><br>Because these entities are usually attacking our Government clients, we must follow up until we get an outcome or block their respective networks / ISPs, which really is not a great answer.<br><br>The other challenge we have is when we do get hold of someone, they don't speak English.<br><br>Surely there must be a better way to do this.<br><br><br>Regards, <br><br><br>Darren Moss<br>General Manager<br>Australia and New Zealand<br>[p] 1300 131 083 [f] 03 9017 2287<br>[e] <a href="mailto:Darren.Moss@em3.com.au">Darren.Moss@em3.com.au</a> [w] <a href="http://www.em3.com.au/">www.em3.com.au</a><br><br>em3 People and Technology | Managed Technology Experts<br>postal: PO Box 2333, Moorabbin VIC 3189<br><br>New Zealand Airedale Street, Auckland City<br>postal: PO Box 39573, Howick 2045<br>[p] 09 887 0550 [f] 09 887 0273<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a> [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Elly Tawhai<br>Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 5:49 PM<br>To: Karl Kloppenborg<br>Cc: ausnog<br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] APNIC WHOIS<br><br>Hi AUSNOGers<br><br>Thanks for the interesting discussion. I hope these comments help answer your questions.<br><br>Is APNIC data Private? <br>As p8x quoted APNIC has a privacy statement that says that some information is publicly registered. See information below: <br><br>"Some of the personal information you provide may be publicly registered in the APNIC Whois Database. This is limited to contact details relating to the allocation of specific public Internet resources."<br>(<a href="http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/privacy">http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/privacy</a>) <br><br>Can people publish WHOIS data? <br>There is information listed on our APNIC Whois Database Acceptable Use Agreement. <br><br>"Except for Internet operational purposes approved by APNIC, no part of the APNIC whois data may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of APNIC on behalf of the copyright holders. Any use of this material to target advertising or similar activities is explicitly forbidden and will be prosecuted. APNIC requests to be notified of any such activities or suspicions thereof. <br><br>The APNIC whois data may not be passed on in bulk to any other person or organization unless approved by APNIC."<br>(<a href="http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/about-whois/protecting">http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/about-whois/protecting</a><br>-whois/copyright)<br><br>In other words you must ask APNIC for permission to publish the information other than for Internet operational purposes.<br><br>In terms of invalid contact details in the APNIC Whois Database, you can submit details using the invalid contact report form and we will follow it up from:<br><br><a href="http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/using-whois/updating">http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/using-whois/updating</a><br>-whois/invalid-contact<br><br>If you have any questions or require assistance with APNIC whois database updates, please contact the APNIC helpdesk:<br><br> <a href="mailto:helpdesk@apnic.net">helpdesk@apnic.net</a><br><br><br>Kind regards,<br>Elly<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Elly Tawhai email: <a href="mailto:elly@apnic.net">elly@apnic.net</a><br>Senior Internet Resource Analyst/ sip: <a href="mailto:elly@voip.apnic.net">elly@voip.apnic.net</a><br>Liaison Officer(Pacific), APNIC phone: +61 7 3858 3188<br><a href="http://www.apnic.net">http://www.apnic.net</a> fax: +61 7 3858 3199<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Hope to see you at APNIC 30 in Gold Coast, <br> Australia 24 - 27 August 2010<br> <a href="http://meetings.apnic.net/30">http://meetings.apnic.net/30</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Karl Kloppenborg wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey Noggers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this is probably just another silly question, but I am having a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dispute with someone over them claiming that whois information is <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">private information about their company and thus I can't post it <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">anywhere I want.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ie, post the whois with a comment on a public domain / forum.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I claim that this is indeed public information and can be used by anyone?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">However I thought before I make a total idiot out of myself I would <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ask you just incase I am wrong and the details are infact "Confidential"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Karl Kloppenborg*<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AusNOG mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br>AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>