‘Every message was copied to the police’

Post by f1refly » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #185

f1refly wrote: post #102

> Either because of a lack of technical knowhow, or fear for his safety, Ramos refused, and pleaded guilty to running a criminal enterprise, a charge for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison Wait a second, why would he have to go to prison? If all he did was selling phones, what charges could there possibly be? I'm also missing a third option that he refused to cooperate "for idiological reasons".

If you knowingly work with and for criminals congrats you're committing a crime too basically anywhere. A LocalBitcoins guy I knew briefly got charged (on top of the usual illegal money tranmission charges) a bit back for selling coins to an undercover after they implied the money came from selling cocaine.

Post by t0mbstone » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:45 PM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #186

t0mbstone wrote: post #155

This just goes to show that you can't trust any messaging app or phone to be "secure". Imagine if there was a small handheld device that you could type messages into (along with a secret phrase or a private key), and it would spit out a string of encrypted text that could be entered into ANY messaging app (or even published publicly on a billboard if you wanted). You could even encode the encrypted text as a scannabl…

If we're being paranoid that separate device could also be compromised so that the messages could be decrypted with another key other than the main key(s) used by either party.