This is a huge reason to use registry protection services In this case it's a bit of a red herring given that his private address is right there on his persona

This is a huge reason to use registry protection services In this case it's a bit of a red herring given that his private address is right there on his personal website -- the whois is just an extra, completely unnecessary, step. Hide behind a whois protection service, but anyone motivated can get your address easily. A personal address is not a secret bit of information. Pretending that it is brings nothing but an illusion of security. The same goes for many other laughably easy to acquire bits of information about someone -- what primary school you went to, one's mother's maiden name, etc: These are things that we've never treated as secret, and it's only the laziest of hackers that it discourages.