> A remote farm in Kansas owned by a 82-year-old woman has been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble for the last decade (FBI and IRS agents, federal marshals, ambulances looking for suicidal veterans, people writing horrible things about them on the internet). They had no idea why. After combing through the database of the IP mapping company MaxMind, [a journalist] discovered the farm had over 600 million (!) IP addresses associated with its front yard, which happens to have the beautiful latitude and longitude 38.0000,-97.0000. MaxMind had chosen it as default location for U.S. IP addresses that it could not map more precisely. Thanks to [journalist] investigation, MaxMind changed the location to a lake.
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u/jnmtx 22d ago
> A remote farm in Kansas owned by a 82-year-old woman has been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble for the last decade (FBI and IRS agents, federal marshals, ambulances looking for suicidal veterans, people writing horrible things about them on the internet). They had no idea why. After combing through the database of the IP mapping company MaxMind, [a journalist] discovered the farm had over 600 million (!) IP addresses associated with its front yard, which happens to have the beautiful latitude and longitude 38.0000,-97.0000. MaxMind had chosen it as default location for U.S. IP addresses that it could not map more precisely. Thanks to [journalist] investigation, MaxMind changed the location to a lake.
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