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Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants
- richardatlarge 1y agoBy now, the FBI should know better than to underestimate the cartels.
- RRWagner 1y agoThe most important take-away of the story is that if the government has the power to gather all available data of people, sooner or later the same information will be in the hands of criminals targeting those same people.
- OutOfHere 1y agoFurthermore, the government is complicit in the intentional insecurity of the phone networks, protocols, and operating systems.
- Arubis 1y agoAnd oftentimes the government and the criminals will be the same people—if not at the beginning then by convergence.
- pkkkzip 1y agoalso a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a cartel quite good and poses significant challenge to the state
- vkou 1y agoAnd sometimes, the government becomes the criminals and everyone discovers that it's really difficult to get them to hold themselves accountable.
- firefax 1y agoI'm surprised how few people don't put their phone in airplane mode when not actively making a call.
- NewJazz 1y agoUmmm... You don't want to receive calls and texts?
- firefax 1y ago>Ummm... You don't want to receive calls and texts? not really
- echoangle 1y agoBut how can you be surprised that other people don't do this if you expect to be able to call them? If you are able to call them, they have to have their phone not in airplane mode, right? Or do you only do scheduled calls?
- gavinray 1y ago
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]