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Yes, and the court documents released include FBI reasoning based on previous sampling of users showing that the people who bought these phones were criminals. They're not ordinary phones, and distribution is intentionally limited. Drug smugglers don't want to let just anybody buy a phone for their encrypted network, you know


> Drug smugglers don't want to let just anybody buy a phone for their encrypted network, you know

I mean, if it’s well encrypted, it should be strong enough to not worry about any random being on the network too, no?

I guess that’s too counterintuitive for those sweating right now.




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