[Cryptography] Paris attackers used OTP's: One Time Phones

[Jerry Leichter]

> | 
> | I also don't recall hearing about terrorists buying iPhones a dozen
> | at a time.
> | 
> Are you suggesting that having a crate of phones in the boot
> of your car well be seen as damning the way having a collection
> of lockpicks and prybars there is?
Actually *Apple* sometimes considers bulk purchases of iPhones to be suspicious.  (Sometimes they consider purchases of iPhones with cash suspicious and decline them.)

This has nothing to do with terrorism - it has (or had) to do with a big demand for iPhones in China.  There was a whole "gray market" supply chain set up to buy them here (eventually by hiring mules) and ship them to China for sale at premium prices.  Ironic when you think about where they were built!

This is pretty much obsolete now as Apple sells directly to China in a big way.

                                                        -- Jerry