Re:Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
by BuschnicK on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:23PM
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If so, that were some particularly inept secret agents...
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Re:Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
by ajross on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:41PM
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That's exactly what I'm thinking. I mean, I know corporate espionage exists, but really. If this was really your goal why traceable sabotage? Why not break the logical connectivity at big intersections so they render correctly but break navigation algorithms? Why not offset a city 100m to the south to break GPS matching? "Deleting main roads" from a traceable IP is just... dumb.