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I guess you do not need a data plan. Or even phones. Just spin up n android emulators and spoof them with the gps data you want? (Disclaimer: I fully expect tha

I guess you do not need a data plan. Or even phones. Just spin up n android emulators and spoof them with the gps data you want? (Disclaimer: I fully expect that to break multiple TOS clauses so I take no responsibility whatsoever if anyone tries this one.)

JorgeGT 7y ago
Hm, a hostile nation state could cause some serious economic damage this way. Maybe they're already doing it?
- crystaldev 7y ago
  Yea that's enough HN for today.
copperx 7y ago
It's a bit naive to think that Google doesn't have a filtering rule that says "only consider real phones with a true GPS signal".
- beefield 7y ago
  This may be a bit naive question, but how does Google know that the virtual phone is not a real phone and the signal is not true? In a way that is not spoofable?
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  - jtsiskin 7y ago
    They can likely consider only 1 device per IP address. Unless the region is blanketed in strong public WiFi
    - beefield 7y ago
      I thought NAT was widespread with mobile providers making that difficult?