The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
February 28, 2022 | Half as Interesting
Posted on 03/20/2022 3:00:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
February 28, 2022 | Half as Interesting
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Of course, criticize them online and just see what happens to ya. ;^)
I was hired to set up the DSN for the National Dyslexia Foundation.
Fascinating.
Funny, and creepy.
I’ve always wondered what happens to those who get ‘swatted’ just because LE has the wrong address. Do they get any compensation?
Bkmrk
That was so good...I actually listened to his commercial for his sponsor “Fabulous”.
Pretty funny and creepy. For those who don’t want to watch the video. This company identifies where people are based on their zipcode. If they could not tell exactly, they would give the center of the location they narrowed it down to. So if they could only tell in was in the US, they would give the center of the US, which was this farm in Kansas. So the FBI, IRS, and various businesses would constantly be knocking on the door looking for someone. After a few years, the farmers figured out what it was and sued the location company.
Thanks.
A few years? Yikes. That’s a long time when it’s YOUR life.
Big Brother writ large.
The owners of the farm should sue Maxmind out of existence. If I were on the jury, they’d get the farm -— and the whole state...
Atlanta used to have a ‘Red Dog’ squad. Went after drug pushers, etc. They got a ‘tip’ from an informant about drugs being sold at this house. They burst in no-knock and a little old lady sitting in her rocker shot back with her revolver. They killed her. Wrong house, informant was unreliable and eventually three of the ‘Dogs’ went to prison. A 92 year old black lady.
You mean the one where they said to put a hair dryer up your butt to fix your prostate?
One of the guiding rules of user interfaces is to not display a valid default value as a placeholder for output fields.
For example, don’t prefill “0” into a numerical output field as default if the data is not available yet - especially if “0” is a valid field value. Leave it blank or show a non-numeric output like “...”, “N/A” or “retrieving”.
This should apply to backend logic should as well. If the data is invalid or unavailable, avoid sending a valid value in its place, even when providing an associated status field.
That seems to be evidence we are living in an idiocracy.
People with any common sense at all think about the results they get from computer software. Going off to some farm in Kansas that was already known to be the location returned by default from buggy software is pretty stupid.
And you might also ask yourself why does the same farm keep coming up as the result in my queries?
I recall reading FR threads about that killing back in ‘09 and some follow up threads.
Be sure to than Dog for getting that gig.
“Thank” D’oh!
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