Plane Finder app in bizarre “terrorist” claims

The really sweet iPhone and Android Plane Finder app is in the midst of a bizarre MAINSTREAM MEDIA STORM today, with the likes of the Daily Mail claiming the real-time plane-spotter app could conceivably be used by terrorists to BLOW UP OUR AEROPLANES.

The gaping flaw in the argument – that Plane Finder simply repackages publicly available traffic data – is, as ever, hidden away in the lower paragraphs of the bizarre article.

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Hope this madness at least boosts your downloads, chaps. Link via Electric Pig.

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  1. Dougster

     /  October 4, 2010

    Full app now available for Android at £2.99 v1.0.2 has hopefully resolved Force Closures.

    Now where did I leave my Surface-to-air missile launcher…………….

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  2. Dougster

     /  October 4, 2010

    Just tried to throw my HTC Hero at a passing BMI A320.

    Only missed by about 31,980ft

    Gonna get an X10 mini as could fling that a little further…………..

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