On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <na...@hostleasing.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1/27/12 1:23 PM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:27 EST, Bryan Horstmann-Allen said:
> >>
> >>> Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed.
> >>
> >>What if it's a phish from a compromised Fed box? :)
> >
> > We've spoken to folks at various FBI field offices and at 26 Plaza in New
> > York which is handling this case. Further, John Curran (ARIN CEO) has
> > confirmed it's real via their own liaison and Paul Vixie is actually
> > working with them on this.
> >
>
>
> It's definitely real.
>
> Best,
>
> -M<
>
I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/
associatedd
registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated
for
LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community
on
unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even policies
and
processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of the
whois
servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the
address
space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address database
-and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals.
So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy?
/bill
