Comment A far more interesting story (Score 4, Interesting) 75
I believe a far more interesting story about Waze has eluded Slashdot:
Two Technion students reverse-engineered Waze's method for detecting a traffic jam, then created a network of fake clients that reported traffic patterns that caused Waze to mark as jammed what was in reality a perfectly empty road.
Sources: Jerusalem Post, Wired.