[188651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laszlo Hanyecz)
Mon Apr 11 14:25:25 2016
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From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:23:00 +0000
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Why not use the locations of their own homes? They're indirectly
sending mobs to randomly chosen locations. There's enough middle men
involved so they can all say they're doing nothing wrong, but wrong is
being done.
-Laszlo
On 2016-04-11 17:34, Steve Mikulasik wrote:
> Just so everyone is clear, Maxmind is changing their default locations.
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> " Now that I’ve made MaxMind aware of the consequences of the default locations it’s chosen, Mather says they’re going to change them. They are picking new default locations for the U.S. and Ashburn, Virginia that are in the middle of bodies of water, rather than people’s homes."
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