An elderly lady in rural kansas has been the subject of police investigations, angry phone calls, trespassers, and more.
Local sheriff:
Herzet said that his department’s job has become to protect the Taylor house from other law enforcement agencies. “Our deputies have been told this is an ongoing issue and the people who live there are nice, non-suicidal people.”
Why did this happen.
for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database has been queried about the location of an IP address in the United States it can’t identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot two hours away from the geographic center of the country. This happens a lot: 5,000 companies rely on MaxMind’s IP mapping information, and in all, there are now over 600 million IP addresses associated with that default coordinate. If any of those IP addresses are used by a scammer, or a computer thief, or a suicidal person contacting a help line, MaxMind’s database places them at the same spot: 38.0000,-97.0000.
The default location "Which happens to be in the front yard of Joyce Taylor’s house." This has happeed to other unknowing and innocent people.
The solution is that these internet companies are picking new default locations for the U.S. that are in the middle of bodies of water, rather than people’s homes.
Read story at:
http://ift.tt/1oRBGk9
The Horror of your home IP address location coinciding with default coordinates
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire