I'm always surprised to see these heavily embargoed countries make such technological advances be it space/defense/communications/infrastructure. Sometimes I wonder if waiting decades and playing back and forth games using diplomacy is just enabling these countries to become more and more self sufficient & self reliant. Iran got its own planes, a pretty decent navy by the looks of it, decent telecoms infrastructure and believe it or not a growing economy! Look at north korea, it can't feed its people but it can build a 3G network while being under embargo. Diplomacy is a joke.

SMS messages on its own are a scam by mobile providers. In the end it cost them nothing for the transport since SMS messages are embedded in the message that your cellphone sends constantly to the tower saying "im here". Secondly providers are seeing the widespread abuse of premium sms / call numbers using malware and other criminal/shady operations where the user is tricked into subscribing or forcibly subscribed to a premium service. They are just trying to cash in on a multi-million dollar industry. Not to forget the massive decline of sms income which used to be nearly pure profit to applications like whatsapp, facebook and others.

What he did could have endangered many people. He should be tried for attempted murder!

I use encryption across all my desktops and laptops. On my laptops I just use dmcrypt/cryptsetup and encrypt the whole disk running ubuntu. For storage I use my fileserver which is 1x500gb encrypted with dmcrypt for the OS and for the "storage" of the fileserver I have redundancy against failure: LVM with 2x 1TB sata disks. The LVM has both physical volumes as seperate "mirror" slices (encrypt 1 disk, add a mirror disk). The total usable storage is around 790 GB but I already had one disk fail and I could simply "mount" my data without one disk being present & rebuild the LVM mirror using a new disk! Secure & reliable! The only issue I have not been able to solve in this setup is if/when one disk fails, your data is only available read-only because the lvm-mirror is only "partial" and physical volumes are missing. If anybody knows a solution for that, please comment. This was just a temporary issue though, as soon as a new disk was added and the mirror rebuilt, all was back to normal.