I suspect it was likely a multi-step process to actually get authorization to track a new phone and decrypt messages. For example: >Step 1: Confirm known bad g

I suspect it was likely a multi-step process to actually get authorization to track a new phone and decrypt messages. For example: >Step 1: Confirm known bad guy has phone through some other means. >Step 2: Decrypt phone messages of known bad guy. Confirm they are criminal activities. >Step 3: Note all previously unknown phones that exchanged criminal messages with known criminal. >Step 4: Those phones are now considered belonging to known criminals. Return to Step 2. Now, its totally possible they were just saying “someone bought a phone through TOR, they are probably bad so we can decrypt their messages” but that doesn’t have to be true for them to have worked their way through this criminal network.