Retired Vancouver police officer Paul McNamara was out with his family in August 2023 when he had a phone conversation with a friend, Ontario RCMP officer Pete Merrifield. As he talked, he noticed his phone became unusually hot, "like it was about to melt down." At the time, McNamara, who retired from the Vancouver Police Department in 2016, was on vacation in Montreal. When he tried to order an Uber, he says his phone was locked due to "too many password attempts." He found it odd, but brushed it off as a glitch. Then, that fall, he learned that the...