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Comment by cowbell

Look at the attempts to outlaw apps like Trapster. You give away the position of speed traps and DUI checkpoints and cops don't like that.

Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source.

This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate.

That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)

parent cowbell 12 years ago

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