Google Maps Hacks
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Google Maps Hacks
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#2Do the phones have to be open and navigating somewhere,or is it enough for them to just be idle on the home screen?
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#3Very cool hack. Thought about that this could be possible several times now, nice that someone actually did and succeeded :)
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#4I expect Google to start weighing user data by some notion of account credibility. It’s a problem that extends beyond maps.
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#5Why can't the phones determine their proximity to each other and report it to Maps, which would then presumably figure out that they're too close to represent separate vehicles?
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#6Wow, I never actually stopped to think about the way Google determines traffic but it seems so obvious now. This is a very simple but cool trick, I'd expect to see something like this in an action movie where people need to reroute an important car to a particular street.
Anyone have any idea how often this data is updated? So if the guy runs through a street with a cart and it turns red, when will it show up as clear?
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#7"One should never underestimate the navigational impact of a truck filled with mobile phones" - S. Weckertbaum
:-)
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#8Why can't the phones determine their proximity to each other and report it to Maps, which would then presumably figure out that they're too close to represent separate vehicles?
Just a guess: there's little economic incentive to perform this attack, and it would also be pretty expensive to perform regularly. So detecting and preventing it has not been a priority up to now. If people started doing it regularly, I'm sure countermeasures would be put in place.
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#9I'm stunned how fast Google Maps detects traffic jams.
I assume all those smartphones are running car navigation and as traffic detection works by trusting the clients I fear there's no chance to avoid this kind of exploit.
Nevertheless it would be interesting to know what's the ratio of correct / malicious clients to fool the system. That migt highly depend on whether Google implemented any detection of faulty clients.
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#10Cool, could use something like this to keep traffic off my street until all the devices are banned.