The bizarre afterlife of an internet mapping glitch

Read this story from Fusion about the Kansas farm that had the misfortune to be located near the geographic center of the country and became the "default" location for unlocatable IP addresses in the United States. What did that mean in practice? People who got scammed on the internet tended to think this farm was the source of their trouble. Which, in turn, caused a lot of trouble for the residents of the farm.

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