Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem...
by iagovar on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:20AM
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> The Spanish police, concerned citizenry, etc. can use the app just as much as anyone else, to prevent things from getting out of hand
They can't. The app uses some kind of location data to silo information. So for example if they want to make an action in Tarragona, people from Barcelona is not going to know about it.
It is likely, seeing some threads of people who have analyzed the application, that the administrators, or whoever is behind it, will be able to know how many people are available in a particular location, and isolate that information in a kind of opsec.
They can't. The app uses some kind of location data to silo information. So for example if they want to make an action in Tarragona, people from Barcelona is not going to know about it.
It is likely, seeing some threads of people who have analyzed the application, that the administrators, or whoever is behind it, will be able to know how many people are available in a particular location, and isolate that information in a kind of opsec.