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Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watches

Smashing Security

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Encrypted Emails - Phantom Secure?

Phantom Secure was a Canadian company providing modified, secure mobile phones that couldn't do anything other than send encrypted emails. It was used by high-level drug traffickers, high-ranking organised criminals. That is until March 2018, when the FBI arrested the company CEO of Vincent Ramos and shut down the whole operation. The FBI hadn't revealed whether or not they were able to decrypt Phantom Secure's messages, but they did certainly stop all those nasty criminals from using it. So I guess the criminals had to go and find something else, I suppose. Once again, criminals were next looking for a secure phone for doing crimes and some may have turned to EncroChat.

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