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Some are ddosing, other steal passwords (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (3 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

link please?

[–] [email protected] 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 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