IP Geolocation Writing Contest: Results Announced!

Wait is over -the results announcement of the IP Geolocation Writing Contest by IP2Location and HackerNoon is now live! This contest is part of our mini writing contest series launched in April.

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We received some quality stories in this contest. Kudos to all those who participated!

Let’s see who won 🎉

Top #IP-GeoLocation Stories

For selecting the top, we picked all the stories with the ip-geolocation tag on HackerNoon, published in April, and chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for:

1. Number of hours read
2. The number of people reached
3. The freshness of the content

Here’s the list of the top 10 stories:

• How to Protect Yourself by Removing Geolocation Data from your Photos  by@fatman
• Less Privacy Breach, More Personalization: How to Safeguard Your Geolocation Data by @lonewolf
• Why IP-Geolocation is the Best Prevention for CNP Fraud Infestation by @nebojsaneshatodorovic
• Unlocking the Real-World Applications of IP Geolocation: 5 Interesting Use Cases by
• IP Geolocation: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by @joseph-chukwube
• The Role of IP-Geolocation in Streamlining E-Commerce Transactions by @sundayadenekan176
• IP2Location's Impact on Digital Marketing: How Geolocation Data is Driving Better ROI for Businesses by @lonewolf
• IP Geolocation Tools for Beginners by @investigator515blog
• How to Get a User's Location in React.js: A Practical Guide by @codebucks
• The Crazy Tales of IP Geolocation in Real Life by @oliveremeka

And the Winner Is The Crazy Tales of IP Geolocation in Real Life by @oliveremeka 🎉

Tor is a network that allows users to browse the internet anonymously by routing their traffic through a series of servers around the world. In 2015, a man in Austria was arrested after an IP geolocation service identified his Tor exit node as the source of a cyber attack. It turned out that the man was innocent and had no involvement in the attack. He had simply been running a Tor exit node, which was used by the attacker to route their traffic. Still he was classified as an accomplice to the crime which highlights the potential risks of running a Tor exit node and the limitations of IP geolocation in identifying the source of cyber attacks.

Congratulations, @oliveremeka! You have won $1000! We will contact you with the next steps to claim your reward.

Keep writing y’all! More contests to come soon. Stay tuned!