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After Anonymous had its little on-again, off-again dealings with the Zeta drug cartel, the Mexican army has stepped in to cut the drug lords off-the-air. The Zetas were apparently running their own encrypted communications network — not your average run of the mill junkies-come-dealers that’s for sure.
The Army confiscated some pretty advanced equipment, with 167 antennas and 166 power supplies removed, along with 1,400 radios and 2,600 phones. This follows a similar raid by the country’s Navy, which tore apart another communication network the drug barons had set-up in another province of Mexico. Some impressive infrastructure that’s for sure. Just goes to show how entrenched, and what a massive deal, the Zeta cartel really is in Mexico. Maybe our own Police should take note — if the Zetas can set up their own encrypted communications network that works, why can’t the Rozzers. [AP via The Register]
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The Mexican drug cartels make more than $10 billion a year selling cannabis in the U.S. – this is ONLY possible because American stores are banned from legally selling cannabis to adults. When this ban is lifted and stores are able to sell legally-grown cannabis to adults at prices low enough to prevent illegal competition the cartels will lose their biggest earner and this sort of stuff will STOP.
It is outrageous to have the federal government ban stores from selling legally-grown cannabis to adults when this ban *doesn’t* prevent people from buying, selling and using cannabis, and *does* make cannabis easily available to children by creating large profits for drug dealers where otherwise there would be NONE!
Same story still floating about or is this a new encrypted network being taken down??
http://gizmodo.com/5840412/mexican-commandos-just-took-down-this-secret-drug-cartel-radio-grid
That was the previous action taken by the Mexican Navy as mentioned above. This one was the Mexican Army and yes, another secure communications network. Oh to have the capital to just set up one, let alone two of these kinds of custom networks.