Comms: the use and abuse of mobiles in disorder
When Thailand's Red Shirts began their uprising in 2007, the authorities discovered that SMS was being used to organise the protesters. Things have moved on with the widespread use of smartphones and Blackberry, as the authorities in the UK found out last week. And in California, the blocking of services
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