True, I thought the same.<p>But then, if they&#x27;d used a CB radio, there&#x27;d have been no records on the device at all. You can go both lower and higher tech to avoid leaving a trail.<p>The fundamental issue our society faces is that the world people thought existed, pre-Snowden, wasn&#x27;t all that bad. There are controls, a system of laws and warrants, judges have to approve requests for data, and companies hand it out only in cases where it&#x27;s really justified. Terrorist used WhatsApp to send a message to his buddy before blowing up a football stadium? It is - literally - warranted.<p>Post Snowden we know that world didn&#x27;t really exist, it was more a sort of theatre governments put on when they didn&#x27;t care much about the outcome. So now the data is disappearing so nobody has it. It&#x27;s not obvious that this is an improvement over restoring the world that was previously thought to exist, but that was apparently too unstable to survive.