Dissidents may trick police to false protest locations via Facebook
Dissidents may now use Internet as a weapon, not just to DDoS government websites, but also to trick police into false tracks.
In Egypt, the roughly one dozen technologically sophisticated middle class young organizers assumed the police were monitoring their communications and deliberately sent them scurrying to false protest locations, announced on their Facebook sites, even as selected members of their group were sent quietly into poorer neighborhoods to organize the groups who were ultimately successful in taking over Tahrir Square.
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Dissidents may trick police to false protest locations via Facebook
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