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AP/HoosierTimes: Software Could Save Lives of Human Rights Workers
Mar 11, 2003, 00 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4003 reads)

"During the conflict in Kosovo, a human rights researcher was passing through a checkpoint when government soldiers discovered the phone numbers of numerous rebel commanders in his notebook.

"The incident may have endangered Kosovo Liberation Army sources.

"That's why the researcher, Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, wishes that at the time he'd had a new [open source] software tool developed expressly for people like him who collect ultrasensitive information..."

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