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[Amir Mohammadkhani-Aminabadi <amir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Alex,

> That being said, if you want to go forward with the legal action, there
> are chances that neither the domain name, nor the sum invested in this
> legal action will be recoverable. Since you mentioned investing a high
> amount of money, I want to make sure you understand there may be risks.

Yes, in retrospect I should have used PGP, but I dont think all of the 
three use
PGP and have keys published.

Still, this does not seem to be a case of causal traffic sniffing, as 
there is no inherent
value to the domain itself. I can not imagine ad revenue being more than 
a hundred bucks
a year. At best! Nobody is linking to the domain and chances of typos 
heading there
are close to zero. Even then, whoever did this would most likely have 
had displayed ads
already. ICANN rules make it relatively simple to get this domain back 
and see
who registered it.
But yes, there is a chance money wont be recovered, but I'd take that 
chance.

> That being said, I agree with you about tracking this down, but it might
> not come out as we'd like it to. As Dick said, it might be easier and
> cheaper to just think of a domain name. Also, if it's sensitive
> information such as this one, you might consider using PGP tot encrypt
> the emails. Anyone can intercept email traffic and read it nowadays.

Yes and no. You have to be at very specific points. I can not just sniff 
traffic you generate
without some serious effort and money involved. I can not just walk into 
an internet exchange
and hook up my equipment. I have been to many hosting facilities and the 
normal
ones require at least a approved gov. id with pre-registration and 
custom locks
on every rack. With the higher end ones having a few Racks of one 
customer in the middle with around
5 meters space around them in all directions and then another metal cage 
which can not be crossed.

With that amount of investment I'd guess there are better ways to 
generate revenue than snagging
up a quasi "worthless" domain.

That is why I think this has been in bad faith to hurt kicad and why 
this must be tracked down.

cheers
amir


> Alex
>
> On 10/07/2010 05:53 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > > I don't see why someone would illegally monitor the email of kicad
> > > > developers, and then try to profit from this, but being Transylvanian, i
> > > > would impale that person on the spot.
> > Since I am not familiar with all these customs, remind me to sit down
> > anytime we are in the same room together
> Dick,
>
> I won't impale any of he kicad developers; you are safe. :P
> If you wish, I will impale anyone who parks his oversized car in front
> of your house. (Ever since you said it, I use this analogy to get out of
> helping people with M$ products, very often).
>
> Alex
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