BOOM! CEO and four executives of Phantom Secure indicted using RICO for conspiring with global organized crime networks by providing encryption services (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Vindicator

Unsealed indictments in Southern California:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/chief-executive-and-four-associates-indicted-conspiring-global-drug-traffickers

Thousands of encrypted devices seized in multiple countries.

"This is the first time the U.S. government has targeted a company and its principals for knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organizations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking."

"Over the past two weeks, in cooperation with Australian Federal Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, more than 250 agents around the globe conducted approximately 25 searches of houses and offices of Phantom Secure associates in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, and in Australia and Canada, seizing Phantom Secure devices, assets, and evidence of the charged crimes. The coordinated effort led to the seizure of servers, computers, cell phones, and Phantom Secure devices used to operate the Phantom Secure network, as well as drugs and weapons."

Backpage was only the beginning. :-)

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meowski ago

BOOM ! If you refuse to put back doors in your encryption software, the government will treat you like an international drug trafficker.

KYS

pepeshadilay ago

If you refuse to put back doors in your encryption software, the government will treat you like an international drug trafficker.

Unless you work for a bank as big as Goldman Sachs, in which case the government will allow you to have good encryption. AG Barr is always careful to mention that when he wants a back door, he does not demand a back door into bank comms.