[188641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blair Trosper)
Mon Apr 11 13:18:30 2016
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From: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:16:02 -0700
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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 <cboyd@gizmopartners.com> wrote=
:
>
> Interesting article.
>
> http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
>
> An hour=E2=80=99s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Pot=
win,
> 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=C3=A9e 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=E2=80=99s t=
he 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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99ve been accused of being identi=
ty
> thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They=E2=80=99ve gotten visite=
d by
> FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for
> suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children.
> They=E2=80=99ve 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
>
