Last Sunday, an overflow car park in a grass field adjacent to the site had to be opened to accommodate the streamoftraffic even though it was rainy day.
Assuming that all drivers who own smartphones have enabled data-sharing, all those endpoints drifting around in traffic are sending a streamof coordinates to a central database in real time.
The technology intercepted the flow oftraffic from Libya's main Internet service provider and harvested information from the stream using a method known as deep-packet inspection.