The phone contained a foreign SIM card

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— Can you give more details?

— Certainly. Such phones are bought for cash so that the police cannot trace the owner by payment. Such a phone is turned on only once — immediately before the call. After that, it is considered exposed and thrown in the trash. Even if the phone is found, it will not help the investigation find its owner or understand the connections between the attackers. Apparently, this is exactly how the organizers and participants of the terrorist attacks acted. They bought cheap prepaid mobile phones, used them once, and then threw them away. The police quickly found the phone in a trash can near the concert hall seized by the terrorists.

, activated just a day before the attack. The GPS data belize whatsapp data in the phone led investigators to a hotel in the suburbs. It turned out that one of the terrorist leaders had rented a couple of rooms in the hotel. His mistake was that the rooms were paid for with a credit card.

— Yes, I was informed. Following the trail of the terrorists, the police came across discarded phones everywhere. In a house rented in the name of one of the terrorists, they found an unopened supply of such mobile phones in untouched packages.

— And cryptography had nothing to do with it! There are no traces of email messages or secret chats on the phones found with the terrorists. So neither the fight against crypto, nor the ban on messengers, nor hacking smartphone security would have helped prevent the terrorist attacks.

- Unfortunately, you are right. I agree that a ban in this case would be pointless.