It's actually your mailing address that gets listed, not your station location, however for most hams they are the same. You can, however, have a P.O. Box listed instead of a physical location, if you want. (See 97.23).

As to the security aspect: I really doubt there are a lot of thieves listening on the ham bands for who's got an expensive radio to go steal. Ham gear is hard to sell if you don't know what it is, and so few and far between that stealing laptops & TVs from any random house is probably a far better bet.

It's actually your mailing address that gets listed, not your station location, however for most hams they are the same. You can, however, have a P.O. Box listed instead of a physical location, if you want. (See 97.23).

As to the security aspect: I really doubt there are a lot of thieves listening on the ham bands for who's got an expensive radio to go steal. Ham gear is hard to sell if you don't know what it is, and so few and far between that stealing laptops & TVs from any random house is probably a far better bet.

Edit: The address is useful for sending QSL cards. Self-policing via DF may play a role, but reporting the location of bad behavior to an official observer should be sufficient even if you can't turn it back into a callsign. (And consider many violators are either not licensed or not at their station location.)