this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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[–] Balooog@discuss.online 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this asshole who vandalized openstreetmap a while back to "point out a security flaw"

By changing the names of a bunch of prominent buildings to racist terms

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Balooog@discuss.online 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't find the community forum thread where I originally learned about it, but here's a BBC article discussing the downstream fallout for apps that use OSM data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45354311

[–] khaliso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive