Phone encryption: Police 'mug' suspect to get data

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brian Randell <brian.randell () newcastle ac uk>
> Date: December 2, 2016 at 10:41:18 AM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: Brian Randell <brian.randell () newcastle ac uk>
> Subject: Phone encryption: Police 'mug' suspect to get data
>
> Hi Dave:
>
> For IP if you wish. (This seems - in retrospect - so obvious a tactic that I find it hard to believe it’s original. 
> :-)
>
> From the BBC news website:
>
> > Phone encryption: Police 'mug' suspect to get data
>
> > Detectives have developed a new tactic to beat criminals using mobile phone encryption - legally "mug" them. 
> > The tactic has emerged after Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit smashed a fake credit card fraud racket. 
> > Officers realised crucial evidence in the investigation was concealed on a suspect's iPhone - but it would be 
> > unobtainable if the device was locked. 
> > So a covert team seized it in the street while the suspect was on a call - beating the security settings. 
> > The street seizure of the phone was dreamt up by detectives from Operation Falcon, the specialist Metropolitan 
> > Police team running investigations into major fraud and related crimes organised online.
> <snip>
>
> Full story at
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38183819
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
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