Sometimes I wonder if criminals aren't as lazy and prone to just using what's popular as the rest of us.
How often do communications done through a wide variety of channels that wouldn't satisfy a cypherpunk from email to Whatsapp show up on evidence before court, even if the people involved knew that they could end up in court? Weren't a bunch of criminals fooled by a literal FBI phone?
It depends on the level of criminal. The larger criminal organizations had their own phone networks. But even then, it's still suffers the same issues as any other organization in that at some point some of its members are going to be top notch and great at what they do, others will be the types to do the least possible or even ignore procedures.
If i open kik in my location there's whole bunch of people openly dealing drugs.
Maybe some are lazy. But it's a two way street. They probably are capable of using more secure means but that means far less customers.
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Sometimes I wonder if criminals aren't as lazy and prone to just using what's popular as the rest of us.
How often do communications done through a wide variety of channels that wouldn't satisfy a cypherpunk from email to Whatsapp show up on evidence before court, even if the people involved knew that they could end up in court? Weren't a bunch of criminals fooled by a literal FBI phone?
It depends on the level of criminal. The larger criminal organizations had their own phone networks. But even then, it's still suffers the same issues as any other organization in that at some point some of its members are going to be top notch and great at what they do, others will be the types to do the least possible or even ignore procedures.
If i open kik in my location there's whole bunch of people openly dealing drugs. Maybe some are lazy. But it's a two way street. They probably are capable of using more secure means but that means far less customers.
To paraphrase a criminal mastermind and philosopher: "Are fucking taking notes on a fucking conapiracy?"
I am often dumbfound by the exsessive paper trail people leave for all kind of things...