I would be okay with other WHOIS privacy services getting hacked, and released for transparent public knowledge. It would literally be the domain name version of the panama papers transparent distribution, right?
GoDaddy WHOIS proxy probably being the largest database, would surely release more connections to covid misinformation sites than the marginally smaller anonymize.com database leak.
Who's to say the breach only effects the political right wing? Are we to assume nobody from the left had their information exposed in this breach? And when did it become more about bad politics than poor security?
Governments selectively subpoena this information all the time. What's the harm in removing all WHOIS privacy?
It just so happens to be that due to a combination of epikly poor security and unfavorable opinions collided, resulting the leak we see now. As unfavorable is subjective, surely GoDaddy/NameCheap etc have some folks who view them with an unfavorable opinion, but the difference here appears to be GoDaddy/NameCheap actually take their customer information seriously, until proven otherwise as we saw with epik who claimed to take security seriously as well, but just didn't have the code/updates/bugbounty to walk the talk.
Apparently they lacked salt or hash.
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