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"Cybergibbons" from PentestPartners has done a teardown of W3W in 2021 on twitter. It was very spicy and the takeaway was not that it is just ugly implementatio
by pseudotrash 3y ago
"Cybergibbons" from PentestPartners has done a teardown of W3W in 2021 on twitter. It was very spicy and the takeaway was not that it is just ugly implementation as some here suggest, but flawed by design:
What3Words – The Algorithm https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/what3words-the-algorithm/ https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/what3words-the-algorithm...
Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical applications https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-suitable-for-safety-critical-applications/ https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...
- ShakataGaNai 3y agoI can understand overlooking homophones, but plurals was just stupid. Someone came up with a clever idea, and clearly they had some math/cipher skills. But w3w clearly had no linguists on staff. Even Wordle did a better job filtering their word list. Though with some of the words being so lengthy and linguistically complex, they would have been better moving to a four word system and assuring simpler words that was better filtered.