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[flagged] Safety Check turned on after Lahore explosion, for many people far from Pakistan (independent.co.uk)
7 points by ncw96 on March 27, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is kind of funny - I'd bet the majority of the people who received the safety check were using one of the commercials VPNs that provide endpoints in Pakistan - very much liked by people who pirate movies or music.


I got the Safety Check and I most definitely wasn't using a VPN, nor was I in the same hemisphere.

From an admittedly-unscientific sampling of my friends who also got the Safety Check alert, it seems like the geofence or query that led to alerts being pushed was misconfigured.




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