HBO Max Contact

Tue Sep 7 17:27:18 UTC 2021

Hello Kevin,

On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 16:57, Kevin McCormick <kmccormick at mdtc.net> wrote:
>
> HBO did respond to contact form page on website.
>
>
> They referred us to Digital Elements.

It's IP geolocation done right, as per the white-paper [1]:

- distrusting WHOIS data
- distrusting ISP provided data
- not providing any check/demo page
- not providing any contact information for victims (end users or ISPs)
- amazing real time updates based on ... things:

> Digital Element utilizes patented web-spidering technology and 20+ proprietary methods
> to triangulate the location, connection speed, and many other characteristics associated
> with an IP address. By combining this "inside-out" infrastructure analysis with "outside-in"
> user location feedback gleaned from a network of commercial partners to improve and
> validate its response at a hyperlocal level (city/postcode/ZIP+4), Digital Element can
> identify where the user actually accesses the Internet down to the ISP’s end-point
> equipment.
> [...]
> "With such an extensive customer network performing more than 10 trillion IP lookups
> per month, the company is able to pick up IP address reallocations the instant they
> occur, ensuring that data remains highly current and accurate."

And just to reiterate one more time:

> By combining this "inside-out" infrastructure analysis with "outside-in"
> user location feedback gleaned from a network of commercial partners to improve and
> validate its response at a hyperlocal level (city/postcode/ZIP+4), Digital Element can
> identify where the user actually accesses the Internet down to the ISP’s end-point
> equipment.

and again:

> the company is able to pick up IP address reallocations the instant they occur

's all good, man!

[1] https://www.digitalelement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IPGEO-myths-facts.pdf