Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time. By Ed Caesar April 17, 2023 New Yorker

Interesting article. I find this stuff to be fascinating, as people are ingenious to try and communicate, do bad things in private and use all sorts of ways to not be discovered. And yet, those methods usually lead to the opposite. There is a very important principle, described in the Bible, that all evil deeds will one day be exposed, and people will be judged based on the condition of their heart and the behavior that results from a sinful heart. God is not mocked, He will expose the evil ones, and judge them, and vindicate the innocent. - efd
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Many criminals have been convicted as a result of encrypted-phone stings—more than four hundred in the U.K. alone. Illustration by Max Löffler

In 1895, a police officer in Manhattan who had once worked for a telephone company, and whose name has been lost to history, suggested adding a hidden circuit to lines used by known criminals: a wiretap. The city’s mayor, William L. Strong, approved the technique, and for two dec…