2009/12/26 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > That situation exists already. Nothing is stopping someone from signing up > for thousands of accounts then using them all simultaneously.
I just thought of another situation, when sites don't protect users' privacy someone usually comes up with a firefox extension to protect their own privacy, in this case you'd generate noise by making a lot of fake requests for tiles in 2, 3, or even 10 other locations so that it's hard to determine real requests. It'd be reasonably straight forward to do too, when ever you request tiles you just add a known offset to x/y/zoom and keep track of that information so that repeat requests wouldn't be exposed. I'm not suggesting anyone do this, nor am I planning to do this myself, just pointing out the lengths some people can and will go to, to protect their privacy. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
