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Most likely Sky ECC had some kind of weakness or vulnerability that made it vulnerable to attack. Encryption is really hard, and one mistake can unravel all of
by tomc1985 6y ago
Most likely Sky ECC had some kind of weakness or vulnerability that made it vulnerable to attack.
Encryption is really hard, and one mistake can unravel all of your efforts. I doubt that a boutique shop like Sky ECC's owners had the resources to secure it as well as they claimed.
- iorrus 6y agoSeems crazy to do things this way. Why not use signal or telegram secure chat, get lost in the crowd
- unnouinceput 6y agoBecause Signal definitely will comply with a judge if given good reasons, like "here is a criminal organization using your app, help us dismantle it" and Telegram is the same as Signal with the exception is Russian. Also encryption is as good as its weakest link, in this case are humans. Probably police flipped some criminals to be informers and now it's running a smoke&mirrors campaign in media in order to send rest of criminals to make more mistakes. As for the ideal way to do organized crime the main ingredient is to own judges + police and you're set for life. From time to time let some minor transport get intercepted by your corrupt policemen, have some small fish get fried by your judge and stir waters for a few days in media in their favor. Maybe this news is exactly that and while the newspapers are reporting few millions captured you haul the rest of billions without a hiccup.
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- LockAndLol 6y agoSignal doesn't store the keys on their servers, nor do they know who is talking to whom. You should read up their protocol.
- joemazerino 6y agoNeither of those options provide revenue.
- novok 6y agoIf you go to their store page, you'll see their side of the story. Basically they say that the hack clients were sideloaded / modified versions. Which if you think about it, might be the way the police cracked the network. "Sky ECC platform remains secure and our authorized devices have not been hacked. There have been recent news articles that claim Sky ECC has been hacked and is involved in criminal activity. This information is not accurate. We have looked into these claims and discovered that a small group of individuals illegally created and distributed an unauthorized version of Sky ECC which they modified and side-loaded onto unsecure devices. Security features that come standard with the Sky ECC phones were eliminated in these bogus devices. ..." [0] [0] https://store.skyecc.com/ https://store.skyecc.com/
- tomc1985 6y agoYeah, but do you actually trust them to be honest? Pretty much every company responds to this kind of stuff with "nothing to see here, move along"
- mike_d 6y agoDo you trust the police to be honest? Sowing confusion with bold claims of compromise will lead criminals to not believe encrypted platforms are not secure and not use them, instead using easier to intercept methods of communication.
- tomc1985 6y agoI don't. In fact I don't believe any kind of PR, really, as that whole exercise is more about telling a favorable story than actually informing on anything. But those bold claims of compromise are backed up by a large, international, and simultaneously-executed roundup of the service's users, who from the likes of it all had Sky ECC in common. Also, the last time this happened was when Encrochat was compromised? That wasn't even all that long ago.