By John Leyden, 13 Oct 2014
IP Expo Law enforcement and intel agencies have no right to complain about the improved security of smartphones because they brought the problem on themselves, according to security guru Mikko Hyppönen.
Policing and government officials on both sides of the Atlantic have been vociferous in their complaints about Apple and Google's respective decisions to include more effective encryption on their smartphones.
FBI Director James Comey, US attorney general Eric Holder and Europol boss Troels Oerting have all waded in to say that the changes would make life difficult for law enforcement.
The Register/ Article/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/13/law_enforcement_only_blame_themselves_increasing_smartphone_crypto/
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