Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police(qz.com)
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Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
https://qz.com/1700205/real-time-maps-warn-hong-kong-protesters-of-poliec/
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Once this technique is known, I would imagine that authorities can exploit this by uploading bogus maps or many many bogus maps so you don't know which is the legitimate map and couldn't find it quickly enough even if you did.
that's no more true with the web than it is with mesh systems. The HK protesters are using a source of authority for this. This can be extended in a mesh system with a web of trust, not that that's w/o it's issues.
It's also heavily reliant on everyone owning an iPhone while turning on public sharing
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...and with Machine Learning scraping and analysing social media posts, police knows the location of the protest ahead of time.
Police will know this regardless of technology. The object is not for protestors to avoid the police, it's for the protestors to know where they are.
It's making information less asymmetric.
It's making information less asymmetric.
It's HKPD though. They are like 200 years away from that kind of capacity.
This is by far the most interesting part for me. My fear is always what happens when authorities "turn off the hose", but mesh networks like this are inspiring.