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Re:Students invent system to thwart police kettling by motters on Saturday February 05, 2011 @12:07PM (#2183416)
You can call me a paranoid, tin foil hat wearing purveyor of bulldada if you like, but unless this is open source it could just be an efficient way for undercover police of the kind recently highlighted amongst environmental campaigners to obtain the IP addresses or mobile phone numbers of anyone involved in public protests.
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Re:Students invent system to thwart police kettling by mwg66 on Saturday February 05, 2011 @12:30PM (#2183464)
The point is, we do not know. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183182
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Re:Students invent system to thwart police kettling by TimHardy on Saturday February 05, 2011 @08:21PM (#2184584)
You're right, there are many dangers here and we are taking them extremely seriously. As I said above, I apologise for any confusion and lack of clarity caused by the rush to have it ready in time. All this will be fixed!
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