Claim

Samy Kamkar USES traffic-data spoofing

Samy created a proof of concept that sent fake Android-device traffic data to Google to make a route appear congested.

Episode
EP 61 — Samy
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Samy Kamkar
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“all those fake devices, would send up information to Google saying hey, I’m one of these Android devices and I’m moving zero miles per hour”

Samy Kamkar · offsets 62689–62828

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:20:27.641631+00:00

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