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[-] Balooog@discuss.online 59 points 3 days ago

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 3 days ago
[-] Balooog@discuss.online 16 points 3 days 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

[-] khaliso@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days 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

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