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A comment on Ola Bini: privacy defender, free software developer still in detention in Ecuado. Parent comment

Re:Ola Bini: privacy defender, free software developer still... by kristianp on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:10PM (#19709944)
What's the relevance of that?

I remember Ola from his work on jruby in the early jruby days.

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Re:Ola Bini: privacy defender, free software developer still... by contingencies on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:01PM (#19710303)
It's one method the Five Eyes[0] use to obtain information regarding specific travel plans in the majority of cases. Given the nature and timing of the case I would be surprised if the US didn't use back channels to suggest this arrest by Ecuador, based on knowledge of his upcoming movements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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