On 11/03/2021 00:16, jim bell wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/10/police-raids-across-europ...

A bit old news, but - I don't know the details, but it seems there was (yet another) encrypted network for criminals with a central server. Ouch, has no-one heard of traffic analysis? Which server, if hacked, would give access to the comms it was supposed to protect. Double ouch bad, the server should never have been able to see plaintext traffic. And of course such a server is a big fat target for law enforcement hackers... LE say it was hacked, the server maintainers say not. It doesn't really matter (except to the arrested I suppose) - the system design made it a major clusterfuck waiting to happen. One wonders when the supposed hack occurred - did LE wait to gather more intel? Did they do some judicious fishing? Or did LE set up the service in the first place? Peter Fairbrother