Getting Stories from the Command Line.

Using command line tools whois and grep, the Financial Times found out who registered the website and retrieved a phone number.

I appreciate the article’s idea/lism on teaching journalists some computer tricks for their research. However, either its inception was way before the GDPR came into effect or it just outright wants to fool people tools like whois can still (i.e. under GDPR) be used reliably as an investigative tool. I stopped showing to the journalist students how whois works already last year as it became utterly useless for retrieving more helpful information of a website.