nuts and bolts

Here’s the NY TIMES with a good piece on the nuts and bolts of how the protests have been planned.

Perhaps the most intriguing detail here is the way in which the protestors’ planted false rumors so that the police would concentrate at irrelevant locations. It doesn’t explain exactly what code they used to allow insiders to tell the true from the false, but it seems to have been an effective technique.

For example, a few days ago I hinted here that something big might be about to happen. That’s because I heard the rumor that the protestors might be storming state TV headquarters (it sounded brave, but potentially suicidal). I stayed quiet about that because I didn’t want to give away the secret, but it turned out to be one of the deliberate false rumors. The target, instead, was parliament. And now they are there.