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Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by upofadown on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:44PM (#35607030)
None of these busts involved breaking encryption. They all involved trusting a third party which later became known to be untrustworthy.
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Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by ed_elliott_asc on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:50PM (#35607696)
Also when they arrested people the phones were often unlocked (I watched a documentary and saw the police capture phones and state they were unlocked)

Also they didn’t use disappearing messages or delete them so the full history was available without breaking any encryption

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Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by bboygravity on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:21PM (#35608835)
Sounds like they catched a bunch of n00bs to me.
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Re:Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by coldtea on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:28AM (#35611742)
That's what a n00b would think!
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