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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by bredren on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:57PM (#27021476)
What’s bizarre to me is this company is funded by IKEA, including $20 million this past March.
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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by dehrmann on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:25AM (#27021594)
I'm a little surprised the locations aren't something like Poäng Ektorp Fintorp.
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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by OskarS on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:47AM (#27021685)
Those last two are actually Swedish place names already.
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Re:What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for ... by hef19898 on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:08AM (#27022977)
Are actual place names excluded then from W3W? Or can they be used for a different places three-word combination? The latter would be fun.
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