This sounds like "parallel construction": "cops devise a second, more conventional way to obtain the information, and put that reverse-engineered method down o

This sounds like "parallel construction": "cops devise a second, more conventional way to obtain the information, and put that reverse-engineered method down on paper. The result is that law enforcement lies about the origins of its investigative method" [1] They didn't like him, he had a record, they want to make an example of him. 1: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/and-after-what-we-learned-about-hemisphere-program-after-suing-dea https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/and-after-what-we-lear...