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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by golem14 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:46PM (#17721352)
That's beside the point. Resolving parcel numbers to owners is also problematic, likewise resolving license plate numbers to owners (used to be possible in Switzerland), but we're talking resolving IP addresses to owners. I wonder how many porn sites could blackmail viewers, or Honeypot mpaa operatos could sue torrent users more easily...
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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by lawl on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:52PM (#17721535)
> likewise resolving license plate numbers to owners (used to be possible in Switzerland)

Still is, depending on the canton. For Zürich you get 5 lookups per day per IP[0]. For other cantons they might charge you a swiss franc or so [1]. Cantons that charge 10-20 CHF and require a reasoning for why you need this data are in the minority.

[0] https://stva.zh.ch/internet/sicherheitsdirektion/stva/de/StV...

[1] https://www.linker.ch/eigenlink/autonummern_index.htm

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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by loeg on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:54PM (#17721376)
It sounds like you think we disagree, but we don't disagree. Parcel lookup is just an interesting public information database many people are unaware of — so I felt it was worth sharing.
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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by SpaceManiac on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:05AM (#17721577)
"Honeypot mpaa operatos could sue torrent users more easily"

Irrelevant, since Comcast already hands this information over to such parties willingly.

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