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willyt on Aug 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: London riots / UK riots: verified areas

Apparently the rioters are organising using blackberry messenger. Seems like the police are about 2 hours behind what's happening.

teyc on Aug 9, 2011 [–]

BBM. Doesn't the government have access to these?

willyt on Aug 9, 2011 | [–]

Aren't they encrypted somehow? What was the thing in Saudi Arabia (might have been different middle east country) where the gov't banned blackberry because they couldn't snoop?

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