Google Maps Hacks

Re:Google Maps Hacks by beefield on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:09AM (#22217569)

I guess you do not need a data plan. Or even phones. Just spin up n android emulators and spoof them with the gps data you want? (Disclaimer: I fully expect that to break multiple TOS clauses so I take no responsibility whatsoever if anyone tries this one.)

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by copperx on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:52AM (#22217840)

It's a bit naive to think that Google doesn't have a filtering rule that says "only consider real phones with a true GPS signal".

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by beefield on Sunday February 02, 2020 @01:01PM (#22218258)

This may be a bit naive question, but how does Google know that the virtual phone is not a real phone and the signal is not true? In a way that is not spoofable?

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by jtsiskin on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:57PM (#22219740)

They can likely consider only 1 device per IP address. Unless the region is blanketed in strong public WiFi

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by beefield on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:17PM (#22219848)

I thought NAT was widespread with mobile providers making that difficult?

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by JorgeGT on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:26AM (#22217682)

Hm, a hostile nation state could cause some serious economic damage this way. Maybe they're already doing it?

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by crystaldev on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:54AM (#22217854)

Yea that's enough HN for today.

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