Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones To Sinaloa Drug Cartel (vice.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: For years, a slew of shadowy companies have sold so-called encrypted phones, custom BlackBerry or Android devices that sometimes have the camera and microphone removed and only send secure messages through private networks. Several of those firms allegedly cater primarily for criminal organizations.Now, the FBI has arrested the owner of one of the most established companies, Phantom Secure, as part of a complex law enforcement operation, according to court records and sources familiar with the matter. "FBI are flexing their muscle," one source familiar with the secure phone industry, and who gave Motherboard specific and accurate details about the operation before it was public knowledge, said. Motherboard granted the sources in this story anonymity to talk about sensitive developments in the secure phone trade. The source said the Phantom operation was carried out in partnership with Canadian and Australian authorities.

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You're missing a space after the period!

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That's how there will be no cartels. Once stupid liberals are exterminated from American government, US will stop exporting liberalism to Latin America and finally let the local Latino Americans with reason and common sense take care of cartels by wiping them out, like Duterte does, or Lukashenko, or Mussollini.

Down with cartels. Make a parking lot of all their Coca plantations. Use napalm, exterminate every single person protecting them publicly.

That's all there is to it. There is absolutely no excuse for handling organized crime in XXI century when governments have unlimitedly more power than they used to in medieval times. The only medieval aspect that should be left nowadays is going medieval on the asses of protectors of organized crime and organized crime itself.