Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl 84
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.
Julian Assange... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:What is foursquare? - The missing description. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:SPHREAKING (Score:4, Funny)
I'd like to subscribe to your mailing list.
Re:Faking geolocation in Firefox (Score:1, Funny)
We're sorry, you have spelled Firefox correctly in your Slashdot post. Here at Slashdot, you are supposed to pretend to be all about "teh open sourcez" but spell the names of the all popular F/OSS apps like a retard. Some accepted misspellings are: FireFox, Fire-Fox, Fire Fox, Foxfire, FireFOX, and Mozilla. If you choose the last option, please remember to be consistent and refer to all Adobe Acrobat apps as simply "Adobe."
Thanks!
The Management
Re:Easy golf: round one (Score:4, Funny)
So now you can tell Foursquare to go away as I've replaced you with a small perl script?