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Kansas home wound up with 600M IP addresses and a world of trouble (2016)
- dotfrag 2mo agoHoly cow, what a crazy story. Imagine being a small family, barely using the internet and not even knowing how to buy or assign IP addresses and suddenly you're in the middle of what sounds like a real-life horror story. Someone needs to make a movie about this :O
- ticulatedspline 2mo agoLooks like they probably settled out of court then dismissed their case. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4510056/arnold-v-maxmind-inc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4510056/arnold-v-maxmin...
- ahazred8ta 2mo agoIP-locating databases have mostly switched to showing the default location as being in the middle of a lake, so that people will know it's not a real house. related: Null Island at 0° / 0° https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island