Or 0,0, send the FBI to Africa on a boating trip. that would probably be easier than "unknown" or "null".
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote: > > On Mon 2016-Apr-11 13:02:14 -0400, Ken Chase <m...@sizone.org> wrote: > > TL;DR: GeoIP put unknown IP location mappings to the 'center of the >> country' >> but then rounded off the lat long so it points at this farm. >> >> Cant believe law enforcement is using this kind of info to execute >> searches. >> Wouldnt that undermine the credibility of any evidence brought up in >> trials >> for any geoip locates? >> >> Seems to me locating unknowns somewhere in the middle of a big lake or >> park in >> the center of the country might be a better idea. >> > > ...how about actually marking an unknown as...oh, I dunno: "unknown"? Is > there no analogue in the GeoIP lookups for a 404? > > >> /kc >> > > -- > Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com > pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal > > > >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:55:11AM -0500, Chris Boyd said: >> > >> >Interesting article. >> > >> >http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ >> > >> >An hour???s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, >> >there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. >> > >> >The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred >> >years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor n??e Vogelman, 82, now >> >rents it out. The acreage is quiet and remote: a farm, a pasture, an old >> >orchard, two barns, some hog shacks and a two-story house. It???s the >> kind >> >of place you move to if you want to get away from it all. The nearest >> >neighbor is a mile away, and the closest big town has just 13,000 >> >people. It is real, rural America; in fact, it???s a two-hour drive from >> >the exact geographical center of the United States. >> > >> >But instead of being a place of respite, the people who live on Joyce >> >Taylor???s land find themselves in a technological horror story. >> > >> > >> >For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all >> >kinds of mysterious trouble. They???ve been accused of being identity >> >thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They???ve gotten visited by >> >FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for >> >suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. >> >They???ve found people scrounging around in their barn. The renters have >> >been doxxed, their names and addresses posted on the internet by >> >vigilantes. Once, someone left a broken toilet in the driveway as a >> >strange, indefinite threat. >> > >> >--Chris >> > >> >