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Jesus Malverde

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Tue Jan 21, 2014, 11:25 PM Jan 2014

Someone Sent a Mysterious Mass Text to Protesters in Kiev

As mass riots continued on the streets of Kiev, protesters, as well as other people in the area, received a mysterious text message on Monday evening.

"Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance," the message read, as first reported by The New York Times.

The text came from a number only identified as 111, but the Times suggests Ukrainian authorities were behind it. The country's Interior Ministry, however, denied sending the messages, as later reported by The Guardian. But regardless of who was responsible for the SMS messages, how did they do it? How did they pinpoint only certain cellphones in a specific area?

It turns out, something like this wouldn't be that hard to carry out.

"It is very easy to send messages out to everybody who was in one particular area, at one particular time," said Eva Galperin, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an expert in surveillance technology.

http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/kiev-protesters-text-message/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfbjFpZThsbWIydmgwd244Z3kwdmUxM18ifQ

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Someone Sent a Mysterious Mass Text to Protesters in Kiev (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Jan 2014 OP
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