Mon, Mar 15th 2021 10:59am
Tim Cushing
The DOJ has indicted another company for supposedly making it easier for criminals to elude law enforcement. The true target, though, isn t the company whose principals have been indicted, but encryption itself.
A couple of years ago the DOJ decided to bring RICO charges against Phantom Secure, a cellphone provider that catered to the criminal element with uncrackable phones/messaging services built on existing Blackberry hardware/software.
The FBI approached Phantom Secure, asking for an encryption backdoor that would allow it to snoop on its customers. Phantom Secure declined the FBI s advances. Its phones originally marketed to professionals desirous of additional security were soon marketed to criminals, a market sector that truly valued the security options offered by Phantom.
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