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I guess you didn't really read the article so I'll put it here : > They intercepted one billion messages, but they couldn't read them at first because they were
by Miraltar 2y ago
I guess you didn't really read the article so I'll put it here :
> They intercepted one billion messages, but they couldn't read them at first because they were encrypted. It wasn’t until late 2020 that they managed to decrypt them.
- kasey_junk 2y agoThe article is extremely vague on how they did this. The one big red flag though is that the protocol for the messenger in the article was a bespoke secret design by a single person who wasn't a cryptographer and not a well vetted public one. I would love to see a technical analysis of the supposed end-to-end encryption methodology used here.
- dorfsmay 2y agoSame here, and would love to find out if they paid the "Million dollar hack" to the Europol people who cracked it!