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Letter: Safety in numbers

Published 11 September 2013

From Clive Tiney

The best defence against being tagged with nanocrystals sprayed by drones controlled by border guards, police or the army (24 August, p 19) would surely be to hide in a crowd. If that fails and you become the only person tagged, thwart the system by coating lots of other people and vehicles with the spray, assuming you could get hold of it.
York, UK

Issue no. 2934 published 14 September 2013

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