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Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.

The next time you encounter a complicated web of route options, remember a site called Rome2Rio.

Rome2Rio shows every last possible travel option in a single streamlined place. It even finds routes Google Maps misses—that’s the main point.

When you think you have seen all possible variants of rather questionable scientific integrity and forms of ethical misconduct after reading this blog and others for years, someone will appear out of nowhere to surprise you: Zhanhu Guo, who is currently Professor of Mechanical & Construction Engineering at Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK (although Web of Science still lists his old affiliation in USA). According to Google Scholar, he has been cited a whopping 105.586 times (as of April 3rd 2025).