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Tech

Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice

05.11.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal

02.08.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Dutch Police Read Messages of Encrypted Messenger ‘Exclu’

02.06.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Ciphr, Encrypted App That Served Organized Crime, Rebrands as Enterprise Software

01.09.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Encrypted Phone Firm Ciphr Plans to Shut Down

08.26.22

By Joseph Cox
Tech

FBI’s Backdoored Anom Phones Secretly Harvested GPS Data Around the World

01.04.22

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Encrypted Phone Company Backdoored by FBI Will Lead to ‘Years’ of Arrests

12.09.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

A Peek Inside Anom, the Phone Company Secretly Used in an FBI Honeypot

12.02.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom

11.30.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Crime Boss or Tech CEO? An Encrypted Phone Company Sues the Government to Save Itself

11.18.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Encrypted Phone Firm Ciphr, Used by Criminals, Moves to Cut Off Australia

09.13.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

07.08.21

By Joseph Cox

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