* Posts by Will R

1 publicly visible post • joined 18 Apr 2019

The curious case of Spamhaus, a port scanning scandal, and an apparent U-turn

Will R

Re: Well, it looks like Spamhaus whining about whois data being no longer available.

I have to agree with Spamhaus on WHOIS data not being available is a bad thing. Before GDPR, I used WHOIS to figure out what companies were receiving my browsing fingerprint when I opened a site. I now have very little to go on when a website starts using joes.tracking.services, and I then try to figure out who owns Joe's so that I can decide if I trust them or need to block them.