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Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location
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#52Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. Not to ruin it, but computers summon all smart cars at once for a task.
That was not a very good book.
I enjoyed it but it was a case of his ability to come up with interesting ideas exceeding his abilities as a writer.
It desperately needed a better editor.
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#53This reminds me of a classic (non-internet powered) version of this where every business in London was sent to some unsupecting resident's address in order to win a bet, clogging the streets in the process: The Berners Street Hoax of 1810. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax
Just to point out some possibly ambiguous phrasing, but the person pulling the prank was trying to win the bet - the tradespeople and visitors were called there to use their services(ie chimney sweeps thought they were going to sweep a chimney), not that they themselves were going to claim some prize.
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#54is this the future of self driving cars?
Not the future, it did already happen, albeit on a smaller scale with Cruise: https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise...
The worst part is they were never really transparent about what the issue was.
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#55Quite surprised that Uber still operates in Russia given the situation.
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#56I'd like to think Ukrainan hackers were behind this.
It being the work of Russian dissidents would be much better in my opinion
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#57Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees were not in fact being bought, and everybody dumped the trees at their door.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes. This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add safeguards to prevent such a thing now, but if they ran the company preparing for every possible way things could go wrong, they’d get absolutely nothing done.
low pain outcomes All your customers thinking your app isn't secure any more isn't "low pain".
That's got nothing to do with what we're talking about.
The first comment didn't say they should have spent more time on security, it said they should have spent time creating a system to detect if too many taxis were in one spot.
I think we can all agree that security is valuable and should be prioritized, but spending time worrying about how to stop who is already in your system from sending all the cabs to the wrong place seems like a waste of time.
Hell, IF (big if) the worst thing a hacker could do once they had access YandexTaxi's servers is send a bunch of cabs to the wrong place, you could almost spin that in a positive light. "We spent so much time protecting customer data that all they could do is send our divers to the wrong place".
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#59I'd like to think Ukrainan hackers were behind this.
No post body was provided.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you build a product, your customers expect, and pay, you to be an expert and dedicated to that domain. Not some kind of fly by night scam.
This is such a ridiculous take I’m having trouble understanding if it’s satire or not.
When you write a comment, you have to be responsible. Others might read it and take it seriously and your advice might lead to death and dismemberment. If you aren't willing to get insurance before commenting, don't comment. Leave it to the professionals with licences.