US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine

European cops hacked the encrypted phone provider Sky in 2021. More and more cases in the U.S. are using that mass of collected messages.

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By Joseph Cox

This article was produced in collaboration with 404 Media, a new independent technology investigations site.

U.S. agencies are increasingly accessing parts of a half-billion encrypted chat message haul that has rocked the global organized crime underground, using the chats as part of multiple drug tra…