The Catalan independence movement is being coordinated by an app designed for revolutions

If I were an authoritarian regime, or even sorta sympathetic to an authoritarian regime, I would be working like crazy to subvert this software (and its supporting infrastructure) so further installations would be poison.

But then if I were the software’s authors, I’d be working on a sequelwith a completely different kind of vulnerability profile.

“Programmer-at-arms” is what they called that job, in Deepness in the Sky.

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