The Fall of EncroChat

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In June 2020, EncroChat users received a flurry of panicked messages from the company claiming its encrypted network had been hacked by government entities . What unravelled was one of the biggest hacks by law enforcement in history, who claimed many of its users are alleged organized criminals in Europe. • • The hack was said to have revealed a litany of criminal behaviour - drug deals and shipments, money laundering and arms trafficking, corrupt police officers, a planning of a murder and even the discovery of a torture chamber, hidden within a shipping container. • • But was the hack even legal? And what are the implications for the encrypted communications that many of us use everyday? • • This podcast was based on the reporting (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aza9...) of Joseph Cox (https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/j...) at Motherboard (https://www.vice.com/en/section/tech) , VICE News. • • Guests: • • Joseph Cox ( / josephfcox ) , Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, VICE News. • • Jake Moore ( / jake_mooreuk ) , Cyber Security Specialist at ESET (https://www.eset.com/uk/) . • • Edouard Klein, Intelligence-Driven Cybersecurity, Sekoia.fr (https://www.sekoia.fr/) • • Tuesday Reitano ( / tuesdayjaded ) , Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. (https://globalinitiative.net/profile/...) • • Reading: • • How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aza9...) , Motherboard • • Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information to Criminals (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jyv...) , Motherboard • • Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack, (https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz9q...) Motherboard • • Europol, Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (iOCTA) 2020 (https://www.europol.europa.eu/activit...) • • Al Jazeera, Opinion: The EncroChat police hacking sets a dangerous precedent (https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/20...) • • ComputerWeekly.com - Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...) • • ComputerWeekly.com - Secrecy around EncroChat cryptophone hack breaches French constitution, court hears (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...) • • Presenter: Jack Meegan-Vickers • • Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (https://globalinitiative.net/)

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