Reply to post: Re: "Spot the criminal" -game here

CEO of smartmobe outfit Phantom Secure cuffed after cocaine sting, boast of murder-by-GPS

Barry Rueger

Re: "Spot the criminal" -game here

Basically the Police tells us here that if you have a phone like this, you are a professional drug dealer and then they invent lot of claims to support that, but no actual proof.

This. It always amazes me when otherwise intelligent readers accept whatever police say as being honest or accurate. I'm assuming that large parts of the article merely repeat what was in the cops' Press Release. Most of what's there can't be relied on until it's been corroborated by someone outside of law enforcement.

Beyond that this should terrify people: the US cops are now saying that anyone, anywhere in the world, that provides some kind of "secure" communication tool is open to prosecution unless they can "prove" that most of their customers are "non-criminal."

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