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If I told you last week that in response to political protest, a government shut down cell phone service, you would have thought I meant maybe Syria.
But by now you probably know it happened in downtown San Francisco where transit cops, worried about a protest that might disrupt rail service and aware that mobile devices played a major role in coordinating the recent British riots, shut the phones off.
The response has been a series of hacks, most recently into a database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association. The full names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, and passwords of transit cops were posted online.
Are there mounting threats to the openness of the Internet?
Today you'll hear a lot of arguments that there are. Even the shift from laptops to mobile devices, which are far more restrictable by the companies that issue them, tightens the knot a little.
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