Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point

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• hasnep@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Btw this happened in February 2020 nearly 6 years ago.

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  • Raptor_007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right, I dunno why this keeps surfacing so often.

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    • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He just got here. Traffic and all that.

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    • Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OP just desperately wants to post shit with no care as to the quality of what they are posting.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like part of a plot that’ll be used in a spy movie or show in the future to coerce the protagonist/target on a specific route.

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  • fistac0rpse@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah, sounds like something you'd see in Burn Notice

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  • qupada@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Next time they (unnecessarily) reboot The Italian Job I can see this fitting right in.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, that’s a neat art project. But doesn’t really prove anything. You could spin up a hundred VMs and spoof the location and achieve the same thing but…why? Piss someone off by rerouting traffic through their neighborhood?

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    dudes an artist, it’s an art project just to prove that it’s something you can do

    he also designed a shirt that makes you harder for a computer to detect

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I did say it was a neat art project but the title also says “to prove a big point”. What does it prove?

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, it isn’t even to prove it’s something you can do. This was done years ago as a proof of concept already. So he’s literally just doing something that’s already been done, and calling it art.

      Like walking into an elevator, pushing all the buttons, and going “art!”

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That didn’t detect the human shaped statue or movie posters as humans?

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dr. Evil pinkie to mouth - And we will trick the GPS maps into thinking there is a huge traffic jam, causing people to be redirected to a slower route.

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• PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reliance wouldn’t be my primary concern, but rather the privacy implication. Perhaps it should use BLE to measure the distance between devices, to be able to discern the situations /s

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like our current political climate might make this an interesting exercise on a regular basis. If we could use a botnet on Google Maps with spoofed GPS data, could we, say, direct a bunch of traffic away from a place where certain government agencies are acting?

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  • SecretSauces@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shut up! Don’t give them any ideas!

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  • huppakee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This could also lead the opposite way, having traffic be redirected so they can do their razzia in peace…

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• officehax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plant packages of 99 phones along your route so people are redirected away.

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• huppakee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a neighborhood in the Netherlands near the beach that was being flooded by tourists looking to park their car, they complained about it but the local government didn’t listen to their concerns. So then they decided to take matters into their own hands and came up with a plan to continuously report road construction to Google. The result was that Google Maps no longer directed tourists into the neighbourhood, but this led to parking problems at the beach entrances but instead of building more parking spaces the municipality created signs telling drivers to turn their gps off.

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