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Afraid of being stapled government of Brazil will use the phone ''armored''

With the adhesion of the Abin cell phones, both the president of the republic and members of the Executive will deal with sensitive matters only through encrypted devices
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that President Jair Bolsonaro used his private cell phone to exchange messages with members of the government via WhatsApp. Much was said about the controversy, but little was done. Now, after the alleged leaks in the dialogues of the then Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, and possible hacking of other members of the Brazilian Legislature, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) and its encrypted mobiles will come into action ... finally.
One of the functions of the Abin team is to develop mechanisms of protection and encryption in order to protect the communications of the president and of ministers of state. So if Minister Moro had been using one of Abin's handsets since the beginning of his term, perhaps this alleged leak would not have happened. I say I suppose, because, at no time, the channel that leaked the dialogues, The Intercept Brazil, said that the information was the result of hacking, in the words of founding editor Glenn Greenwald.
With the adhesion of Abin's cell phones, both the president and members of the Executive will deal with sensitive matters only through encrypted devices, or with a technology that protects the data of these devices.
However, as reported to the newspaper O Globo, the phones developed by Abin do not allow the installation of WhatsApp, Telegram and social networks. Soon, who will not be very happy about this is President Bolsonaro, who uses this type of application to communicate with the population. Ag. Globo-Brazil