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The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The contacts on Zambada-Ortiz's phone, which officials seized, would prove critical in pinpointing cartel stash houses strewn across Sinaloa state in mountainous northwest Mexico. Crucially, the episode would breathe new life into the joint US-Mexico dragnet that recently caught Chapo, who'd been at large for 13 years after famously escaping from Mexican prison in a laundry basket. Zambada-Ortiz's capture and the data scraped from his phone led to more and more Sinaloa phones until a month ago, when Mexican authorities (moving on American intelligence work) successfully carried out a number of raids that scored a cache of weapons and the arrests of a few of Chapo's senior henchmen. With each apprehension came another phone full of leads, 'a new trove of information for officials to mine,' as TIME reported. Then, sometime last week, Mexican commandos 'traced a number stored in a seized cell phone to a stash house outside the provincial capital of Culiacan, where they believed Guzman was hiding,' TIME added."
is that traditional investigative work functions to capture people, and not indiscriminate collection of meta data.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
People aren't concerned about being captured right now - they're concerned that indiscriminate collection of their data strips their privacy and allows a future regime who doesn't like people like them to easily group them with the "terrorists" of the day.
This is just old-fashioned police work. I don't see where a "phone dragnet" was used. When did slashdot become pro-NSA?
...is that these people did not invest in a "Backup & Reset -> Factory data reset -> Reset Phone" shortcut directly on their primary homescreen. You would think that anyone carrying a phone with sensitive data that can be seized would want lots of practice in erasing a phone.
The drug lords will wise up and use burner phones, replacing them every X days. Gosh, don't they even watch The Wire down there in Mexico?
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
http://www.bop.gov/locations/i...
it was the NSA and they used parallel construction.
I loaded Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my Nook last weekend, and there is now an option to "Encrypt Tablet" - supposedly it takes about a half hour, and it must be done on a full battery while connected to external power.
Will Cyanogenmod 10.2 do the same thing when running on a phone?
Effing pointless. Legalization would actually improve everything - except militarized police budgets and powers, which IS the effing point.
I dunno, last time I checked the CEOs/Chairmen of InBev, Nestle, Segrams, Starbucks, etc... were all still at large.
This is the only explanation that makes sense.
Eliminate the USA, then we'd see the cartels disappear.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.