Not to mention countries like Germany, where you are required by law to make your address public. Honestly, I've always viewed whois protection as a huge scam. Those who really want your address can get it with trivial ease, and those who don't want it won't seek it anyway.
Re:The weakest link by far is Apple
by rowanseymour on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:18AM
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> I've always viewed whois protection as a huge scam
Private registrations allow you to anonymously register a domain. That's still a useful service for a lot of people.
In this case it's a bit of a red herring given that his private address is right there on his personal website -- the whois is just an extra, completely unnecessary, step. Hide behind a whois protection service, but anyone motivated can get your address easily.
A personal address is not a secret bit of information. Pretending that it is brings nothing but an illusion of security. The same goes for many other laughably easy to acquire bits of information about someone -- what primary school you went to, one's mother's maiden name, etc: These are things that we've never treated as secret, and it's only the laziest of hackers that it discourages.