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“As if we were at the table with them”: how the police “hacked” the secret messaging of criminals

2022-12-13T19:17:20.528Z


INVESTIGATION - The thugs thought their phones were tamper-proof. The PJ intercepted 1 billion messages. A gold mine.


The extraordinary story is that of an opaque curtain that the police were able to tear down before discovering the reality of the hidden world of organized crime.

The hidden face of a universe where barbarism, just like the Hollywood means deployed and the profits pocketed, exceeds all that the most seasoned investigators could know.

Hitherto unsuspected, this ecosystem lets appear bosses of French cities radiating internationally, containers serving as torture chambers in the Netherlands, occult bankers who juggle with huge sums from the Gulf countries.

At the level of organized crime, we are below everything one could imagine

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, confides Philippe Chadrys, deputy central director of the judicial police.

To achieve this dizzying descent into the underworld of crime, it was necessary to unlock a door known to be inviolable until now, that of Sky ECC, a telephone encrypted by powerful software and used for…

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Source: lefigaro

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