14.8. Protecting the Privacy of Your Information
It is important to protect the privacy of your information. Remarkably, it can be rather easy to discover personal information about a web site's owner. If you were interested in discovering the owner of a site's domain, you could perform a WHOIS lookup for the domain to discover more information about the site's owners including their name, e-mail address, and possibly even the phone number and physical address. If you were crafty enough, this information could then be used for social engineering purposes. Many domain registrars, such as Network Solutions, even provide information about domain names by using a WHOIS button on their front pages. But it's not just Network Solutions that will provide ...
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