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How the FBI Is Trying to Break Encryption Without Actually Breaking Encryption
Since at least the 1990s, U.S. federal officials have publicly worried that encrypted communications give aid to terrorists and criminals. More often than not they have, to some degree, been right.
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UK Police Crack Encrypted Messaging App, Arrest Over 700 Suspected Criminals
A team of police forces across Europe has infiltrated an encrypted messaging app called Encrochat, leading to the arrests of more than 700 suspected criminals and the seizure of nearly $100 million in cash. The international team, spearheaded by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), has said it’s disrupted a number of criminal networks…