Secure Comms: Op VENETIC - EncroChat Secure Phones Subverted by Govts

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On 7/3/20, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/uk/encrochat-crime-messaging-cracked-intl-gbr-scli/index.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qjkn/encrochat-hack-gps-messages-passwords-data
https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2020/operation-venetic-multi-million-pound-conspiracy-uncovered/
https://telecoms.com/505343/encrochat-hack-shows-theres-no-such-thing-as-secure-communications/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8486915/Royals-politicians-celebrities-used-secret-EncroChat-phone-network.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa73dz/fbi-tried-to-plant-backdoor-in-encrypted-phone-phantom-secure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Pv9CU1mjE Myntex Encro Phone is not secure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdugZjTPho EncroChat Phone Hacked

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Both Linux and BSD are developing to run on these phones.
Many other Unix phones coming in next few years.
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/comparing-linux-phones/
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones/6827


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The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto
Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android
phones, had the capability to harvest "all data stored within the
device," and was expected to include chat messages, geolocation data,
usernames, passwords, and more, according to a document obtained by
Motherboard. From the report: The document adds more specifics around
the law enforcement hack and subsequent takedown of Encrochat earlier
this year. Organized crime groups across Europe and the rest of the
world heavily used the network before its seizure, in many cases to
facilitate large scale drug trafficking. The operation is one of, if
not the, largest law enforcement mass hacking operation to date, with
investigators obtaining more than a hundred million encrypted
messages. "The NCA has been collaborating with the Gendarmerie on
Encrochat for over 18 months, as the servers are hosted in France. The
ultimate objective of this collaboration has been to identify and
exploit any vulnerability in the service to obtain content," the
document reads, referring to both the UK's National Crime Agency and
one of the national police forces of France. As well as the
geolocation, chat messages, and passwords, the law enforcement malware
also told infected Encrochat devices to provide a list of WiFi access
points near the device, the document reads.
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