&quot;In the piece, published back in August, they wrote about a murder near Chicago in which a father of six had been shot. At the scene, officers found two mobile phones. But they were passcode locked. Neither Google or Apple (the phones ran their software) could unlock the phones, and therefore the data was inaccessible.<p>&quot;On behalf of crime victims the world over,&quot; the opinion piece read, &quot;we are asking whether this encryption is truly worth the cost.&quot;&quot;<p>Am I missing something here? Don&#x27;t phones have SIM cards, IMEI numbers, serial numbers etc? Don&#x27;t service providers keep records? Would they complain if a gun was found on the scene but the killer had not made the effort to engrave his name on it? Maybe they should spend their time doing investigations rather than writing editorials?