Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.
Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.
In Mexico the cartels built their own phone towers
https://hackers-arise.com/mobile-hacking-how-the-mexican-drug-cartels-built-their-own-cellular-infrastructure-to-avoid-surveillance/
This article cites no sources at all, no?
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-ce-idUSKCN24G1DM/