Btw this happened in February 2020 nearly 6 years ago.
Right, I dunno why this keeps surfacing so often.
He just got here. Traffic and all that.
But, but the traffic was fake.
But the internet points are real
Fully committed
OP just desperately wants to post shit with no care as to the quality of what they are posting.
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.
yeah, sounds like something you’d see in Burn Notice
Next time they (unnecessarily) reboot The Italian Job I can see this fitting right in.
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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?
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
Yeah I did say it was a neat art project but the title also says “to prove a big point”. What does it prove?
Well… from the ….article….
Trick Google Maps to prove a big point about big data
Weckert describes the work as a form of hacktivism aimed at exposing how fragile and influenceable data systems can be. By manipulating something as widely trusted as Google Maps, he wanted to make the hidden mechanics of algorithms visible and understandable.
i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn’t much of a point, let alone a big one
Precisely.
Maybe ‘we’ know that, but certainly not the world at large. Also, it shows something interesting that some may not have thought of. You might even be able to use this for some protests or activism. Idk.
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!”
That didn’t detect the human shaped statue or movie posters as humans?
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. Hahahahaha!
Reliance wouldn’t be my primary concern, but rather the privacy implication. It seems like Google has to step up its surveillance game /s. Fun project though
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?
Shut up! Don’t give them any ideas!
This could also lead the opposite way, having traffic be redirected so they can do their razzia in peace…
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Plant packages of 99 phones along your route so people are redirected away.
