full-disclosure - home land tracker software

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: home land tracker software

--On Friday, February 6, 2004 6:52 PM +0000 DAN MORRILL <dan_20407@....com> 
wrote:

> http://www.ofaccompliance.com/
>
> anyone want to debate the ethics of this

The ethics of what?  Making publicly available information easy to access?

> and the US Patriot act and how
> to secure the system when it is in use or misuse?

Use and misuse of what?  The ability to access publicly information?  I'm 
afraid I don't see what the problem is.

> You can check our own
> name at the web site, as well as more popular folks.

Well, I tried my name, WIlliam R. Murray and William Gates.  Got nothing 
back.  Maybe I did something wrong?  I *did* get hits on Osama bin Laden 
and Mustafa Mohammed, but that's not exactly a startling revelation.

> As an information
> security person, this worries me. Both from a compliance issue
> (corporate) and on a personal issue.
>
Why?  I can look you up in the phone book.  I can look you up online in 
numerous search engines.  I can contact someone who knows you and find out 
more about you.  I really don't understand what the problem is.

Now, if they were publishing your bank account information, *that* would be 
a problem.

> Additional reading US Patriot act, section 326.
>
> All information security related ideas welcome, flames to
> /dev/null/blackhole/no-read-access
>
> My question is : what were they thinking?
>
Ease of use?  Quick access to information that could be life saving?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu