Feds swoop in on Phantom Secure CEO for selling encrypted BlackBerry and Android phones to criminal organizations
(CrackBerry.com)

For years now, custom PGP BlackBerry and Android devices have been available for purchase and for just as long, those devices have been tied to criminal activities in one way or another. For years now, custom PGP BlackBerry and Android devices have been available for purchase and for just as long, those devices have been tied to criminal activities in one way or another. Whether it be directly or indirectly, police forces tasked with catching criminals have been onto the process for quite some time. The latest bust information comes by way of Motherboard, who recently reported Vincent Ramos, founder, and CEO of Phantom Secure has been arrested as part of a joint operation between the Canadian and Australian authorities to crack down on one of the more well-established players in the PGP secured device arena that allegedly had members of the Sinaloa drug cartel counted as customers. A complaint filed in the Southern District of California on Thursday charges Vincent Ramos, the fo...