So I just got back from the Fostering Innovation in eGovernment workshop at the IN3 in Castelldefels (where I happen to work), jointly organised by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and Oxford Internet Institute. Yesterday some of us of both institutes had a closed workshop to discuss how we could colaborate in future projects. Anyway, some stuff was quite interesting - check the "transcription" of the workshop made by Ismael Peña at ICTlogy - but I could not believe on how some people think that innovation is all... geeez, what was that thing about using SMS-Bomb to prevent crime? The idea was the following: police could send SMSs every 5 minutes to a stolen mobile phone, in other words, bombing it with SMSs, with the intention of annoying the steeler so next time he/she (and others) would think twice before commiting the same crime... WHAT???? Is this eGovernment???
TIGA - Louder than a Bomb
3 comments:
Yep, I was shocked to by the SMS bombing. And, once you remove the original/stolen SIM card, what's the use of it? Or are you bombing the phone itself? Can this be done? Nuts.
Crazy stuff... I think they can bomb the number, not the phone! How could they find/identify the phone without the SIM card anyway?
AH! And welcome Ismael :)
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