Bad guys will certainly know that given phones includes backdoor access and they’ll figure out devices that does not.
Law enforcement will end up spying on regular citizens and catching small fish while big fish and bad hackers will laugh watching.
Law enforcement will end up spying on regular citizens and catching small fish while big fish and bad hackers will laugh watching.
Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password.
Or it could just be made illegal to own one at all. Anyone with a secure smartphone could probably be tracked just by traces it leaves when it connects to a cellular network.
> Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password.
Could you explain your reasoning? Just owning a safe in my trunk doesn't give people probable cause to search my trunk, so it's not clear how you came to that conclusion.
DEA was looking though records of who bought money counters.