[Noisebridge-discuss] crowd maps and riots?

[Willow Brugh]

And I of course realized the term "riot" was a loaded one AFTER I had
pressed send... Apologies on that.

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 15:19, Willow Brugh <willow.bl00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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