The man's name is Vincent Ramos, a 41-year-old who served as the CEO of Phantom Secure, a company that sold custom PGP-encrypted BlackBerry phones for more than a decade. Phantom Secure devices used by criminal gangs. In addition to the imprisonment, worth $ 80 million worth of assets, the US Department of Justice said. It was the first time that the US had reached such a verdict against a company boss, who has provided the organized crime with encryption technology.
I still have three interesting thoughts about this:
- States always wanted tap-proof communication for themselves. In almost the same measure they wanted to see the communication of other states.
- The sellers of firearms remain unpunished.
- If Tim Cook does not sit in jail soon, we know how safe the iPhones really are :-P
