[Noisebridge-discuss] crowd maps and riots?

Willow Brugh willow.bl00 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 22:19:50 UTC 2011


Hey all,

I'm working on explaining to a different set of hackers/makers/interested
persons as to why it's important to have secure communication channels in
humanitarian efforts. I remember a conversation at Noisebridge around riots
in Oakland last year where the participants were using Ushahidi (or some
other crowd-sourced map tool) and were more easily located and arrested by
police because of the tool.

Does anyone remember anything about this? Am I crazy and making things up?
My google-fu is completely failing me.

Thanks!

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