accord to a storyfrom the UK edition ofVice(a story which , I rush to lend , swear on a source named ‘ K2 ’ and should therefore be taken with the needed gallon of salt ) , drug dealers in thefair city of Birminghamhave turn to dumphones in an endeavour to fudge the police .
The particular handset of pick is said to be the Nokia 8210 , of which Mr K2 has a handful :
“ Every dealer I sleep together use old telephone , and the Nokia 8210 is the one everyone want because of how small it is and how long the shelling lasts . And it was the good phone when it come out . I could n’t give one in Jamaica back in the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , but now I ’ve got four . ”
The system of logic , of class , is that smartphones are both more hackable and , thanks to the on - board GPS , they reveal more about where you ’ve been than underlying cell triangulation . And , to an extent , that ’s probably true . A smartphonecompromised by the foresightful arm of the lawis far more likely to give the man juicy information than an equivalent dumbphone . And , it ’s certainly not beyond the kingdom of possibility that the UK ’s new work National Crime Agency , with the assistance of buddies over atGCHQ(the UK NSA ) , have been hacking into drug monger ’s iPhones .
Switching to a burner telephone set in spades is n’t a get - out - of - jailhouse - free card for criminals , though : plebeian police tactics like cubicle geolocation and call tapping do n’t have anything to do with the target French telephone , and will work on essentially anything with a SIM scorecard time slot .
read between the lines , though , it ’s a respectable example of another profession that ’s dumbing down for up security . In the wake of theSnowden leaks , political science and crook alike have incresingly turned to honest-to-goodness - school , internet - incapable tech to try and obviate hack .
Most famously , theGerman governance has switch back to mechanically skillful typewritersto avoid any kind of hacking . Maybe the fact that our atomic launch codification are run off floppy record is n’t so speculative after all . [ ViceviaTechDirt ]
Top photo by Saleeee / Shutterstock .
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