GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

Laszlo Hanyecz laszlo at heliacal.net
Mon Apr 11 18:23:00 UTC 2016


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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