Author Topic: The UK Police are using a DDoS-style technique to remotely disable drug dealers' phon  (Read 309 times)

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A new technique to reduce drug trade has been introduced by the UK Police, and it supposedly involves DDoS.The UK police has been trying a new technique to reduce drug trades by remotely disabling drug dealers' phones, rendering the task of contacting their customers useless. Officers have referred to this method as a "DDoS-style" technique, although it could mean anything.Alex Murray, an official from West Midlands Police, spoke at the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) conference last week about the method used. He explained it as a way to deny targeting offenders their supply network, according to conference attendee Dan Reynolds, a serving officer in Cheshire.In May of last year, the UK police was already said to be working on remotely disabling phones through the Drug Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders Regulations, even if no crime was to be committed. In a section of the DDTRO, it is specified that the UK police could send a restriction order to a teleco...

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