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Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:59:47 -0500
On 4/11/2016 11:55, Chris Boyd 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.
And not even slightly funny. What happened to Truth. If you do not know, say "I don't know." Or be silent.
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
-- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
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- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences, (continued)
- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Steve Mikulasik (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 Mike Hammett (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Ricky Beam (Apr 11)
- 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)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Hank Nussbacher (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Larry Sheldon (Apr 11)
- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Steve Mikulasik (Apr 11)