[188670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 11 20:16:58 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160411222309.GD4087@excession.tpb.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:11:58 -0700
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 15:23 , Niels Bakker <niels=3Dnanog@bakker.net> =
wrote:
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>>> Oh, heck, you know better than that. You can put in all the flags =
and warnings you want, but if it returns an address, nitwits will show =
up at the address with guns.
>=20
> * owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong) [Tue 12 Apr 2016, 00:02 CEST]:
>> I hear this argument about various things over and over and over =
again.
>>=20
>> However, my home address has been published in multiple whois =
databases since I moved here in 1993.
>>=20
>> Not once has a nitwit with a gun shown up on my doorstep as a result.
>=20
> I think you miss the point. Your geocoordinates were not mistakenly =
associated with nigh infinite amounts of internet abuse. This thread =
has (mostly) been about wrong information being published, not =
information being published at all.
I didn=E2=80=99t miss the point, but the specific statement quoted is =
patently false in both cases (the article itself admits that the vast =
majority of such =E2=80=9Cvictim=E2=80=9D households contacted had not =
suffered any ill effects).
Owen
