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Stoopid criminals

Postby snaark » Wed Jun 09, 2021 12:36 pm

This is hilarious. Criminals paying $1700 to the feds for a half year subscription to an "encrypted" phone service.

https://nyti.ms/352aCGF
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Re: Stoopid criminals

Postby Kurt » Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:00 pm

snaark wrote:This is hilarious. Criminals paying $1700 to the feds for a half year subscription to an "encrypted" phone service.

https://nyti.ms/352aCGF


Making something expensive that could be free is a brilliant way to get the right people talking on it while cutting down on the riff raff doing low level stuff or just "being paranoid".

I use Signal, which is run by one of the few Corporate execs I admire.

https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... ellebrite/

This has staggering implication for past criminal cases and lawsuits. ...and I suspect this is why the Crime Fighters wanted their own app, so no one could use the "Cellebrite cannot be trusted" argument in court.
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Re: Stoopid criminals

Postby snaark » Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:45 pm

I did wonder when reading the article why they would even buy them. I thought signal, telegram, Viber and all the rest are unbreakable anyway? Still, I love the fact that the feds were running a nice little tech startup and getting paid by dumb drug dealers. They even got rid of the competition and updated their phones based on user feedback. I bet they've been laughing their nuts off the whole time.
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Re: Stoopid criminals

Postby sparrow » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:52 am

Half the population are idiots. Does a spoon stick to your head? Serious question for some.
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Postby el3so » Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:39 am

I haven't done any cocaine in a while. Stuff 'll get here as long as there is demand and there is money to be made. There are some things to be said to grow the stuff or GM strains in the Alps or wherever, process in a proper lab by people in white coats, sell it under regulation in licensed stores, tax the fück out of it, keep the euros moving over here instead of sending it to some narcotraficante assholes across the ocean.

It won't sell politically but it makes sense. Anyways, guess I'm in for a rewatch of The Wire, they did the phone thing ages ago, the writers probably stole it too.
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