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RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
From: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar () sdinet de>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:09:35 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Nathan Anderson wrote:
What I do get upset hearing about, though, is law enforcement agencies using that kind of data in order to execute a warrant. There is nothing actionable there, and yet from the sounds of it, some LEAs are getting search warrants or conducting raids on houses where they believe they have a solid 1-to-1 mapping of IP address to physical address. Which is absolutely inexcusable.
Just watch any more or less recent CSI / crime TV show. They have "an IP", enter it into some gizmo, and it spits out the address, mostly shown on a nice sat image. That is so "normal" in TV that for Bully Policeman it just has to exist, and the reaction to a webform where you can enter an IP and get an address will just be "great, now I also have this" - no further thinking to be expected. And finding a Judge signing off nearly any warrant put in front of them is also not new. c'ya sven-haegar -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F.
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- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences, (continued)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Carlos M. Martinez (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Steve Atkins (Apr 11)
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- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jean-Francois Mezei (Apr 12)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Todd Crane (Apr 12)
- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Nathan Anderson (Apr 13)
- RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Sven-Haegar Koch (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Christian de Larrinaga (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Laszlo Hanyecz (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Todd Crane (Apr 14)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 15)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jay Hennigan (Apr 14)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Jean-Francois Mezei (Apr 13)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Baldur Norddahl (Apr 11)
- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Niels Bakker (Apr 11)