BlackBerry Blamed for Encouraging Looters

By Editor

 

Well if that isn't a Daily Mail headline then I don't know what is!

It has been suggested that BlackBerry phones are the best way to secretly organise a massive riot and looting - as the ones seen in London over the last couple of nights - as the BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) service is untraceable.

Inciting a riot in an already tense country is probably not that hard - there are hundreds of reasons to be angry - but following it through is not acceptable, especially when half the rioters are doing it for themselves not for a cause.

Because of BlackBerry and its 'flaw' is there likely to be a change in law which states that all social networks and devices must be open for the Police and Government to moniter?

I can already hear the words 'big brother' being murmured as I write, and I for one believe that privacy is immensely important but we, as a society, can't allow home grown convicts and evil-doers to rule the streets via a private network anymore - so what are the other options?

What are your views? 


 

 

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