Reply to post: Re: Five Eyes

Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots

Eric Olson

Re: Five Eyes

It's not entrapment.

Entrapment requires the cops to induce an otherwise law-abiding person into committing a crime.

So, it would be like handing a random person a brick of cocaine, telling them it was cocaine, then saying, "Hey, I know a place and person to sell this to. Go here at this time," and then arresting them for possession and intent to distribute when they leave.

They just created a product using their knowledge of in-demand specs, advertised it to some criminals, who then word-of-mouthed it to other criminals, who then used it exactly as they would have similar products.

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