“the company changed its default location to “the middle of a lake somewhere,” “ Wait - why wouldn’t they put in their actual address where the server is instead of the middle of a lake? Isn’t this how the problem started in the first place? Why are they trying to hide their address?
Houseboat owners beware!
You’d be closer to solving crimes by assigning the defaults to the White House.
Note to self - never buy a house with simple whole number coordinates.
It’s not the company’s address that should be there though, because there really shouldn’t be any “default address” when a search fails. Standard programming in that case is to return no results at all, a “null” result. That way the person searching knows that there is no match.
These idiots instead stuck in a default address, so if you search for a bad IP, you have no way of knowing that it couldn’t be found.