Tech News: Signal Flares and Police Errors

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Tech News: Signal Flares and Police Errors

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Jan 19, 2021

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Signal found the pain of success when new users overloaded the service. UK police accidentally delete hundreds of thousands of files. And we look at continuing fallout from the riots at the US Capitol on January 6th.
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Jan 19, 2021

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