I just heard on the radio (I’m an Aussie) that it’s not a phone app, it’s some kind if dedicated device that doesn’t do sms, mail or voice, only encrypted messages (that the law enforcement had the keys to).
I gotta be honest, I would find the idea there kind of appealing ...
It's pretty interesting! Can't wait for more details on the scheme.
Generally drug dealers are servants of their community, providing goods and services to people in a collegial manner.
These were viscous, murderous, gangsters. Their greed and hubris bought them down as much as cleaver policing. Which is not to minimise the cleverness of the coppers, very cleaver, very smart. Get these parasites out of our communities.
For drugs like cannabis from neighbourhood indoor growers.
For drugs like synthetic opioids (ad Ketamine) directly from the pharmaceutical companies.
For drugs like cocaine and natural opiates they are imported from revolutionary groups mostly. This one is tricky, as the other end of the trade tends to be fairly brutish, so there is a thriving "middle man" business.
I do not get your point.
My point is that dealing illegal drugs is a community service. The laws are complete bullshit, no body with half a ounce of sense thinks they are socially useful, they are maintained for reasons of brute power and political lag. They are failing
We often read (1) and (2) all the time with various scams from call centres, now the law has used that approach against a criminal and taken it too another level.
I have a lot of respect for this approach against such criminals on many levels.
But one take away from all this - IT security is often limited by humans and this highlights that perfectly. Just nice too read about criminals falling foul to the law who have taken one of their play-books and used it against them. Sure makes a change from reading about some old person loosing all their savings as somebody convinced them to install some random app just because they said they was from the bank/Microsoft etc.