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Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications


Brooke Deuson is the developer behind Trafficking Free Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization tha [...]

In the future, she would like to add a few carefully chosen new features to FolSum, including a progress bar and code to avoid overwhelming cheap network-attached storage. Building it helped her iron out the web-site, continuous-integration, software-packaging, and distribution problems; now that she knows what works, future software from Trafficking Free Tomorrow is on a much firmer foundation. The goal Deuson has set for herself, of making human trafficking economically unfeasible, is important but daunting; hopefully, her strategy of producing small, dependable tools for the most under-resourced law-enforcement agencies will help achieve it.

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