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Found the article. It was an IP-to-coorindates database that returned about the center of the United States if the real position was unknown or just "US". "Max
by mtmail 4y ago
Found the article. It was an IP-to-coorindates database that returned about the center of the United States if the real position was unknown or just "US".
"MaxMind's database places them at the same spot: 38.0000,-97.0000. Which happens to be in the front yard of Joyce Taylor's house."
https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turned-a-random-kansas-f-1793856052 https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...
- msrenee 4y agoThose people affected must be so thankful to that reporter. I can't imagine what a relief it must have been for him to not only tell them what the problem was, but also get in contact with the company and get it rectified.
- bragr 4y agoFor those people sure, but apparently people that live in the center of other entities (states, counties, zip/postal codes), have this problem too, just at a smaller scale.
- tough 4y agoThey can now do whatever the journalist did and get it fixed hopefully
- rnk 4y agoThis is basically swatting. Everyone could live in the center of some random group. And almost every day there's a new example of the police going to the wrong address and killing someone. We shouldn't have to defend ourselves from the police visiting us so they don't kill us in cold blood.
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- walrus01 4y agoImagine how profoundly ignorant a law enforcement official must be to swear an affidavit for a search warrant based on maxmind geolocation IP data. People who have seen too many episodes of Law & Order or something and take it as how to literally do their job. And then how profoundly ignorant about technology a judge must be to sign a warrant based on such flawed information.