Are iPhones the new burner phone?
As Apple and the FBI get set for their court date in a couple of weeks, this item from Reuters:
Court filings in a New York case involving the phone maker and the FBI — not the case out in San Bernardino — show that criminals are getting rid of burner phones and switching to iPhones because of the encryption.
Wiretaps of conversations show criminals calling Apple’s encryption “another gift from God.”
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