Reply to post: Re: Performance? Art?

Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin

foxyshadis

Re: Performance? Art?

Unless every single car in the city is now self-driving and navigating entirely off of Google Maps, and all heading in the same direction, this didn't "fuck up the city." It caused a few people using GM to pick alternate routes, probably mostly rideshare drivers, and confused the hell out of a few people who stayed on the road anyway.

And, you know, it's white hat hacking that points out a potential problem in a system in a relatively benign way.

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