Living in a GPS hell

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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble. They’ve been accused of being identity thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They’ve gotten visited by FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. They’ve found people scrounging around in their barn. The renters have been doxxed, their names and addresses posted on the internet by vigilantes. Once, someone left a broken toilet in the driveway as a strange, indefinite threat.
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
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One of the reasons I post this stuff on AAC is in case anybody here is still asleep. There is a chance you and I will be in the same cellblock if we keep this up.
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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This is a classic example of what happens when you report data to great precision without metadata about its error range. No excuse for this.

I don't see how a lawsuit against them could fail.
 

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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Sweet. Listen up or go to hell.
"He went up to the priest after the service and said, 'Father, I think there's a GPS jammer in the church here somewhere,'" said Goward, who knows the official. "The father says: 'Yeah. You're darn right. I bought it to jam GPS and the cellphones because I was tired of people texting during the sermon.'" (The official declined an interview request from NBC News and requested anonymity.)
 
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