Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a “virtual traffic jam” on Google Maps
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There’s some security researchers that have done this before as well, and some “grey hats” that reportedly used this technique to get Google to route traffic away from them during their commute by spinning up a whole bunch of phones in their car like this.
“grey hats”
What’s a grey hat?
Black hats are typical hackers, white hats are ethical hackers. So grey hats are just morally ambiguous hackers
Typical hackers
Screw that, go check the original definition of hacker. Those who do bad business with computers are “black hats” not “typical hackers”
Of course you’re right, historically. But since the word hacker came to mean both good and bad in the general publics mind, this is where we are in 2024. We can’t fight it.
And not just in 2024 grey hats and white hats have existed for quite some time now.
