The case also helped secure an indictment against Vincent Ramos, who ran Phantom Secure in Canada and is accused of providing criminal organizations with highly encrypted Blackberries to communicate out of earshot of law enforcement. Hanson’s empire worked off the hard-to-get Blackberries, and he enabled an undercover federal agent to get his hands on one, according to court records.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 02, 2018 14:37 UTC