Busted ‘secure’ EncroChat messaging service leads to over 6,500 arrests by police - Back in 2020, law enforcement agents across Europe had a major breakthrough in their figh... https://grahamcluley.com/busted-secure-encrochat-messaging-service-leads-to-over-6500-arrests-by-police/ #encryption #lawℴ #encrochat #android #privacy #europol #drugs

„Hamburger Drogenpate: Nun wandert auch sein Kurier in den Knast“ https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/kurier-des-drogenpaten-verurteilt/ #encrochat #Justiz #Drogen #Hamburg

Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal tuts (very) loudly at expert witnesses who presume to advise it outside (very) narrow technical bounds (such as what “interception” means in #EncroChat-hacking scenarios) §68 [2021] EWCA Crim 128 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2021/128.html

Quite shocking the UK govt ignores its own standards for evidence in hundreds of trials for the most serious crimes (in some cases murder), and judges simply wave it on #encrochat
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RT @Professor_Peter
Agreed. What is also interesting that almost none of the procedures in the NCA's Operation Venetic are FSR and ISO compliant. Hundreds of trials are involved. https://twitter.com/SamRaincock/status/1642824493562249218
https://twitter.com/Professor_Peter/status/1642827535414067200

As we have seen in #EncroChat trials 🔍
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RT @Professor_Peter
First rule for lawyer or expert confronted with an alleged message thread: ask for the source plus full provenance - as check against biased selection. https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1632316576337649666
https://twitter.com/Professor_Peter/status/1632327161024528384

Myntex was previously selling backdoored EncroChat devices:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160310025153/http://www.myntex.ca/

If you look at their current marketing, they try to multiple open source projects including Signal, Matrix and GrapheneOS based on them being open source.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/109923388257052806

#myntex #encrochat #backdoor #scam #android #security

Heard a talk tonight by a policeman involved in the big drug gang take-down after the French military cracked #Encrochat encryption in 2020. And it seems to me that not only was this technological breakthrough necessary for the police's success. #Technology is in fact necessary for the intricate day to day operations of a successful #crime gang.

In other words, it's not that the police were lucky that the gang chose to use mobile phones. The gang could not have chosen to operate without them.

The Home Office says it wants to target “bespoke” devices used for crime, but critics say it is unclear what a bespoke device is.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p49/uk-proposes-making-sale-possession-of-encrypted-phones-illegal-encrochat-sky
#CYBER #encryptedphones #lawenforcement #anom #sky #encrochat #phantomsecure

@tbhdk Et andet take på historien: fransk politi hackede og aflyttede alle brugere af #EncroChat tjenesten, herunder personer i Danmark, uden forudgående mistanke og individuel dommerkendelse, reelt NSA-style masseovervågning (ikke den vinkel som kriminalreporterne i DK bringer).

Give me six lines written by the most honest man.. (du kender sikkert citatet fra Snowden)

UK government is in breach of its legal obligation to review the #InvestigatoryPowersAct 2016 (with quotes from me, Peter Sommer and Eric Kind :) #surveillance #EncroChat #hacking https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252529191/Experts-concerned-over-silence-around-government-obligation-to-review-UK-surveillance-laws

#Motherboard : Ciphr, Encrypted App That Served Organized Crime, Rebrands as Enterprise Software https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5ve7q/ciphr-app-rebrands-as-mode-onyxcorp #encryptedphones #phantomsecure #encryption #encrochat #CYBER #Ciphr #Crime #FBI

Ciphr became a tool of choice for international drug traffickers before deciding to close last year. Now, the company behind Ciphr is back with a new app called "Mode."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5ve7q/ciphr-app-rebrands-as-mode-onyxcorp
#encryptedphones #CYBER #encryption #FBI #encrochat #phantomsecure #Ciphr #Crime

Smashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob - Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put t... https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-302/ #smashingsecurity #encryption #lawℴ #encrochat #podcast #privacy #lensaai #drugs #ai

🦆: Super Aktion von Verkehrspolizei - Automobilindustrie infiltrieren und nächstes Jahr kriegen alle chronischen Temposündern dann Post aus Flensburg #Encrochat @derpostillon @janboehm

It is really not easy to maintain anonymity against a determined police investigation #EncroChat
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7becde8e-759d-11ed-be91-363346a310de?shareToken=147b659d50cea03eabfbb0a69046a788

Smashing Security podcast #229: Dating leaks, right to repair, and a stinky bishop - A big cheese ends up in jail, a Japanese dating site spills the dirt after a hack, and we... https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-229-dating-leaks-right-to-repair-and-a-stinky-bishop/ #smashingsecurity #securitythreats #righttorepair #fingerprints #onlinedating #databreach #law&order #encrochat #dataloss #podcast #privacy #cheese

#Encrochat the daily life of the criminal world. 100 million messages. Criminals discuss their drug hideouts, their money laundering techniques, their premeditations of murder. The criminals' back room, full of evidence of their misdeeds!
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

E.U. Authorities Crack Encryption of Massive Criminal and Murder Network - Four-year investigation shuts down EncroChat and busts 746 alleged criminals for planning murders,... more: https://threatpost.com/eu-authorities-crack-encryption-murder-network/157146/ #u.k.nationalcrimeagency #criminalcommunications #securemobilemessaging #mobilesecurity #lawenforcement #thenetherlands #encryptedchat #europeanunion #murdernetwork #cryptography #government #encryption #criminals #encrochat #france