[chedabob]

The criminals will just use something that hides in plain sight.

I think it was Encrochat devices that booted into a fairly vanilla looking OS, and there was another platform where it was hidden in something like a calculator app.

[pjerem]

You mean, EncroChat, the company that was infiltrated by cops which led to 4500 arrests ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

[tobyhinloopen]

> a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the developers.

I mean, maybe that has something to do with it?

[thyristan]

It isn't about criminals. It is about population control. Keeping the plebs in their place, lest they vote unsavoury opposition parties, or get ideas about real democratic participation.