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On balance, I think Apple did the right thing. The police in London raided properties and arrested people before the Extinction Rebellion protests had even sta
by hktruth 7y ago
On balance, I think Apple did the right thing.
The police in London raided properties and arrested people before the Extinction Rebellion protests had even started.
Removing the app as a precaution in case some crazies out there decide to use it to ambush and murder people seems reasonable given the situation.
For those who want the app, just use the website.
https://hkmap.live/ https://hkmap.live/
However, since the data is crowd-sourced, it wouldn't be hard for an attacker to inject bogus data rendering the entire website and app useless.
Which could be extremely dangerous for innocent civilians if people simply make up stuff. Someone could write, "guy in red shirt, blue jeans and white baseball cap having coffee in McDonalds is an undercover officer and beat a protestor last night".
Given the mob justice and violence that we've seen, it might be better that everyone simply ignores the site.