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Bad guys will certainly know that given phones includes backdoor access and they’ll figure out devices that does not. Law enforcement will end up spying on reg

• jacobush 7y ago
  They will also catch political trends, which I suspect is the whole point.
• roywiggins 7y ago
  > they’ll figure out devices that does not Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password. Or it could just be made illegal to own one at all. Anyone with a secure smartphone could probably be tracked just by traces it leaves when it connects to a cellular network.
  • vageli 7y ago
    > > they’ll figure out devices that does not > Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password. Could you explain your reasoning? Just owning a safe in my trunk doesn't give people probable cause to search my trunk, so it's not clear how you came to that conclusion.
    • sgarman 7y ago
      Check this out: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-cou... DEA was looking though records of who bought money counters.
  • user9645 7y ago
    Onde cheep phone per message and criminals are back. But hosest people are now under constant mass surveilence AND the agency only have metadata anyway because the message was encrypted