Hi, You wrote:
Op di 9 jun. 2020 om 11:19 schreef Mike Hearn <[email protected]>: > > Whilst pitched for privacy advocates, if that were true they'd presumably > make it easier to buy them via their website and charge less. The fact that > it's so expensive and that they're only leasable implies something odd is > going on there. It won't surprise me if at some point EncroPhone gets > silently taken over by the Dutch police and used in a sting operation, in > the same way that Tor markets sometimes were. For them to be legally safe > they'd have to avoid anything that could be used to prove a criminal > conspiracy, which from your description of how they operate and the news > articles sounds unlikely. > It's maybe worth to note that Dutch police have done so in the past, see e.g. the Ennetcom case ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/22/dutch-police-ennetcom-shut-down-owner-arrested ) and IronChat ( https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/09/258000-encrypted-ironchat-phone-messages-cracked-by-police/ ). Cheers, Thom Wiggers > > _______________________________________________ > Messaging mailing list > [email protected] > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging >
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