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Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
From: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:16:02 -0700
Has happened in Atlanta, too, due to (what I think) was a lookup on the ASN's whois, which wasn't specific: http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-my-phone-apps-lead-to-wrong-home/ On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com> wrote:
Interesting article. http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it out. The acreage is quiet and remote: a farm, a pasture, an old orchard, two barns, some hog shacks and a two-story house. It’s the kind of place you move to if you want to get away from it all. The nearest neighbor is a mile away, and the closest big town has just 13,000 people. It is real, rural America; in fact, it’s a two-hour drive from the exact geographical center of the United States. But instead of being a place of respite, the people who live on Joyce Taylor’s land find themselves in a technological horror story. For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble. They’ve been accused of being identity thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They’ve gotten visited by FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. They’ve found people scrounging around in their barn. The renters have been doxxed, their names and addresses posted on the internet by vigilantes. Once, someone left a broken toilet in the driveway as a strange, indefinite threat. --Chris
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- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences, (continued)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Niels Bakker (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Stephen Frost (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Wayne Bouchard (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jean-Francois Mezei (Apr 12)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Joel Maslak (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Mike Hammett (Apr 11)
- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Steve Mikulasik (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences John Levine (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jared Mauch (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Laszlo Hanyecz (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jean-Francois Mezei (Apr 12)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Hank Nussbacher (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Ben McGinnes (Apr 13)