The FBI arrested her owner Phantom Secure, a company that had custom Appliances BlackBerry and Android in international criminal organizations.
In accordance with Motherboard, the FBI, along with police authorities in Canada and the Australias, they had long been monitoring Phantom Secure for the sale of telephone devices to drug cartels and other criminal organizations.
The FBI reports that Phantom Secure and Chief Executive Officer Vincent Ramos were well aware that their devices were being used in violent crimes.
The phones in question had their cameras, microphones and other standard connectivity features disabled while using a Pretty Good Privacy version for Mission messages.
The FBI also says the company has allowed its customers to erase their device data remotely.
Canadian police also said that when Vincent Ramos was asked by an undercover agent if the phones were good for "sending MDMA to Montreal", he replied that it would be "perfect".
"We did it - we created it specifically for it [drug trafficking]," said Vincent Ramos.
The FBI (and other U.S. law enforcement agencies, such as the Department of Justice) has waged a war on every encryption technology, claiming that criminals are equipped with "invincible" mobile devices that prevent them from conducting their investigations.
In fact, the FBI long ago tried to force companies like Apple to add backdoors that would help them monitor the public on their devices, which could potentially weaken the security features available to regular users. users who have no intention of breaking the law.
