alt Hacker News" reminds me of mapmakers including fake towns or other features in their maps, in case someone leaked them."
Sounds the same to me, but are you sure they are doing it like this, or you guess?
" reminds me of mapmakers including fake towns or other features in their maps, in case someone leaked them."
Sounds the same to me, but are you sure they are doing it like this, or you guess?
This practice was confirmed by Elections Alberta:
> Each electoral list legitimately released by Elections Alberta includes a certain number of fictitious — or "seeded" — names. These unique entries on each electoral list allow investigators to trace each dataset back to their source in the event of a breach.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-vo...