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Just for fun speculation. What if someone realized that Google is scraping/using his data. Then he decided to put in a "honeytoken" to check this assumption and

by drewhk 11y ago

Just for fun speculation. What if someone realized that Google is scraping/using his data. Then he decided to put in a "honeytoken" to check this assumption and at the same time pull a prank on Google. Once he realized that his assumption was correct, he published the coordinates -- as a mini revenge. Of course this is just some idle speculation, but I have seen honeytoken entries in printed dictionaries for example.

bambax 11y ago
But if that were the case, wouldn't they be pissing on Google's logo instead?
- drewhk 11y ago
  It was just a fun thought, don't take it super seriously :)
- jarman 11y ago
  False flag has way more FUN-inciting potential.
- kubiiii 11y ago
  Maybe he thought apple was scrapping his data not google.
Rafert 11y ago
These are known as trap streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- BenDaglish 11y ago
  Haha - beat me to it!
BenDaglish 11y ago
Known as Trap Streets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street) in the map-making trade.
- Angostura 11y ago
  A kind of mountweazel
iamdanfox 11y ago
Otto Lindberg did exactly this to for a whole town in the 1930s! Amazingly, the fake town (called 'Agloe') "became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy again" [1] [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-imaginary-town-becomes-real-then-not-true-story http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-im...