Has happened in Atlanta, too, due to (what I think) was a lookup on the ASN's whois, which wasn't specific: http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-my-phone-apps-lead-to-wrong-home/
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Chris Boyd <cb...@gizmopartners.com> wrote: > > 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 née 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 >