Comment by miki123211
16 days ago
Yeah, this is likely not intended to catch the most sophisticated of hackers, but your average drug dealer / murderer / thief / paedophile.
I don't know where the belief that all criminals are tech experts comes from; the popularity of cool-looking "encrypted" phones as opposed to actually encrypted apps like Signal should have long dispelled that myth.
I'd argue that the opposite is probably true, people who think that crime pays are less smart and more impulsive than the average person, and hence less likely to think about things like this.
> I don't know where the belief that all criminals are tech experts comes from;
From forums of tech experts.
I do not think this attempt by the authorities will be any useful, while it would initially work... well these guys may not be hackers but are not idiots and over time you will get your average baddies become tech-savvy enough to circumvent this.
last time I checked, our prisons are full of people dumb enough to get caught.
What is the correlation with full prisons and crime outside of them?
> I don't know where the belief that all criminals are tech experts comes from; the popularity of cool-looking "encrypted" phones as opposed to actually encrypted apps like Signal should have long dispelled that myth.
I think it's a case of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/
People here work at the level of things like RowHammer, normal people don't think past the idea that a padlock icon on the screen makes them safe.