Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups

[Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>]

shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com> writes:

> 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.

That was not the conclusion that one would draw from their replies.

-r