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Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups


From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 07:52:01 -0400

On Apr 8, 2015 7:19 AM, "Rob Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com> wrote:


Blair Trosper <blair.trosper () gmail com> writes:

MaxMind (a great product)

I've heard anecdotal accounts of MaxMind intentionally marking all
address blocks assigned to a VPN vendor as "open proxy" even when
advised repeatedly that the disputed addresses (a) had no VPN services
running on them either inbound or outbound, and (b) in fact were web
servers for the company's payment system, or mail servers for their
corporate email.


I would wonder if these apps didn't have issues that allowed web proxy to
the world. Maybe MaxMind is doing something wrong or maybe they're seeing
the result of malicious activities and classifying from that.


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