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Why do criminals always use some weird AF chat app that no one has heard of to plot their crimes? Obviously it’s back-doored. All those billions of drug dollars
by monero-xmr 3y ago
Why do criminals always use some weird AF chat app that no one has heard of to plot their crimes? Obviously it’s back-doored. All those billions of drug dollars and no one told them about Signal?
- namaria 3y agoCriminals that get caught. Police forces in Rotterdam for example estimate they can find about 10% of the cocaine shipments going through the port. The vast majority of crime is unreported, very lucrative and corrupts an official near you. And I bet they don't use moronic tactics like planning crime in off brand chat apps.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThere's a considerable amount of FUD about mainstream chat apps. Like that whole kerfuffle when cellibrite said "we can read messages from signal" (if we have the phone, and the phone's not encrypted) leading to a signal dev figuring out how to hack a stingray (greykey, really), and threaten to make every phone with signal installed do that when connected. I do wonder what these unnamed chat apps are. I assume part of the reason for not naming them is to cause more FUD.
- photoGrant 3y agoAny links/sources to these events? More for further reading/curiosity!
- extraduder_ire 3y agoHere's two stories posted here about it. I forgot it was three years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494253 - Cellebrite claims it can break Signal (schneier.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520481 - No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” (signal.org)
- WithinReason 3y agoThe ones using Signal don't get caught so we don't hear about it