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[–] Balooog@discuss.online 38 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Balooog@discuss.online 13 points 4 weeks ago

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