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Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl
caffeinemessiah writes "With the recent launch of Facebook Places, the rise to prominence of Foursquare and GoWalla, and articles in the New York Times about the increasing popularity of 'checking in' to locations using GPS-enabled mobile phones, a number of businesses are wondering how to reward frequent patrons. But exactly how susceptible are these 'location based services' to being abused? A researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows how easily Foursquare can be gamed in 9 Perl statements, and invites readers to submit more succinct versions of the code to game the system."
An anonymous reader contributes a link to a similar article about spoofing Facebook Places to create an alibi.
How long before Julian Assange is proven (through his Facebook account) to have been at a McDonald's in Seattle when the alleged assault took place?
There's this other application on mobile phones that lets people selectively contact those they want at a particular moment and communicate arbitrary information including that and a bunch more via simultaneous two-way voice.
I'd like to subscribe to your mailing list.
But... the future refused to change.
So now you can tell Foursquare to go away as I've replaced you with a small perl script?
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