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Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
From: Ben McGinnes <ben () adversary org>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:54:55 +1000
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:08:29AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
On 12/04/2016 00:41, Ricky Beam wrote:On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:55:11 -0400, Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com> wrote:Interesting article. http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/... "Until you reached out to us, we were unaware that there were issues..." Bull! I can dig up dozens (if not hundreds) of emails from coworkers and customers who have complained to MaxMind about their asinine we-don't-have-a-frakin-clue results. They've known for years! They're paid for a definitive answer, not an "unknown", which is why the default answer is the same near-the-center-of-the-country lat/lon. He, personally, may have had no idea, but MaxMind The Company did/does.Its called class action lawsuit.
Yep. It's also effectively the inverse of the Streisand Effect since the news articles (and hopefully law suit) can only help people in that situation since it's the only way they'd get wide enough coverage of the issue to warn amateur sleuths that any trail that leads there is a dead end. It really says it all when the local sherriff says that his job now includes defending the house against all other law enforcement, state and federal. It's good that they're doing it, but ridiculous that they have to. Regards, Ben
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- Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Blair Trosper (Apr 11)
- 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)