Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a “virtual traffic jam” on Google Maps

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    There’s some security researchers that have done this before as well, and some “grey hats” that reportedly used this technique to get Google to route traffic away from them during their commute by spinning up a whole bunch of phones in their car like this.

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        4 months ago

        Black hats are typical hackers, white hats are ethical hackers. So grey hats are just morally ambiguous hackers

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          4 months ago

          Typical hackers

          Screw that, go check the original definition of hacker. Those who do bad business with computers are “black hats” not “typical hackers”

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      4 months ago

      Do you recall any of the names? I’d love to read those papers and see how effective it was. Depending on the city and the route, people might have no choice but to go over a bridge like that regardless of traffic reports.