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Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by blarghyblarg on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:12PM (#35609159)
You can have perfect crypto on your devices, and great operations, and your messages can still be intercepted several ways. The feds are almost never in a rush. If they want you, they'll get you. If they want you enough, they'll sit in a coffee shop they know you frequent with a high zoom camera ready to read your encrypted texts from across the room. Or they'll bug your car and listen in to your properly encrypted phone calls. Or they'll intercept a package and add some spy gear. They won't do this to bust some street level meth dealer. But, if you're suspected of something like posting state secrets in a Minecraft server? You betcha. They'll follow you everywhere.
Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by kube-system on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:53AM (#35610096)
> But, if you're suspected of something like posting state secrets in a Minecraft server? You betcha. They'll follow you everywhere.

Or they just call up discord and ask for the name and billing address on the account.

Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by FredPret on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:45AM (#35610385)
Presumably a criminal mastermind would know to fake that
Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by mrguyorama on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:06PM (#35618498)
Seeing as anybody who takes a credit card on the internet has to do some fraud prevention, that's pretty likely to be very difficult. Hell, depending on how paranoid things have been set up, even having uBlock can prevent you from using a credit card somewhere!