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An ip address is not good enough to locate someone. If they have evidence beyond an ip address sure raid the house, but if they have no identity evidence beyon
by stonemetal 11y ago
An ip address is not good enough to locate someone. If they have evidence beyond an ip address sure raid the house, but if they have no identity evidence beyond an ip address then they need to understand they have no identifying evidence.
Per this article yesterday, MaxMind(a geolocation ip service) lists a farm in Kansas (selected because it is roughly the midpoint of the US) as it's unknown location as a result it is given as the address for something like 600 million ip addresses. The farm's owner has been harassed by several law enforcement agencies and countless vigilantes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466849
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoAn IP address is often more than enough to locate a computer. If it's using an ISP which has an account with an address associated with it where that IP has been provisioned, you can locate a site. No, you can't identify a suspect or a user. But you can say "I detected child porn at this IP address, this IP address is at this house" and that's more than enough reason to search that house. Simple geolocation APIs, and using a law enforcement request for an account holder's address are two very different things.
- ajmurmann 11y agoI agree that's a larger issue. However, IP addresses being enough evidence for a search seems somewhat out of scope of the article.
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