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Save Normal text size Very large text size As snow falls in the fading evening light in Istanbul, a man dressed in black appears in a hotel doorway. Shaky video footage records him standing like an apparition in a snow globe. Australia’s most wanted organised crime boss then does what he has done so many times before in his decade on the run. Hakan “the Facebook gangster” Ayik turns and walks away. The video, posted in February last year on the Instagram account of Istanbul’s Kings Cros...

Juha Saarinen: Encryption is not a criminals-only tool 11 May, 2021 07:00 AM 5 minutes to read Encryption isnt going away. Photo / Getty Images OPINION On Friday last week, a quote from a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into surveillance laws by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) made me do a double-take: "ACIC observation shows there is no legitimate reason for a law-abiding member of the community to own or use an encrypted communications platform."...

Illustration by Michael Byers, Published 14:00, Apr. 20, 2021 On March 7, 2018, Vincent Ramos was sitting alone at the Over Easy restaurant in Bellingham, Washington, just across the border from his home, in Richmond, British Columbia. He didn’t protest when a phalanx of cops marched in and arrested him. Speaking to the Bellingham Herald, the restaurant owner said Ramos “seemed like a mellow guy.” It’s not mentioned in the account of his arrest, but the first thing officers likel...

Sky Global’s Jean-Francois Eap denies any wrongdoing Share Copy The CEO of Sky Global – which sold encryption chat software with customized smartphones – has come out fighting after Uncle Sam charged him with knowingly assisting the international drug smuggling trade. “The indictment against me personally in the United States is an example of the police and the government trying to vilify anyone who takes a stance against unwarranted surveillance,” Jean-François Eap, of Canad...

Source: Sky ECC website Authorities in the U.S. have extended the international police crackdown against the Sky ECC cryptophone service by indicting both the parent companys CEO and its main distributor. Jean-François Eap, CEO of Sky Global, and Thomas Herdman, who authorities say distributed Sky Global devices until December 2020, have both been charged with a conspiracy to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, aka RICO, by running an "illicit secret communi...

CEO of Encrypted Chat Platform Indicted for Aiding Organised Criminals The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced an indictment against Jean-Francois Eap, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Sky Global, and an associate for wilfully participating in a criminal enterprise to help international drug traffickers avoid law enforcement. Eap (also known as "888888") and Thomas Herdman, a former high-level distributor of Sky Global devices, have been charged with a conspiracy to viola...

Mon, Mar 15th 2021 10:59am — Tim Cushing The DOJ has indicted another company for supposedly making it easier for criminals to elude law enforcement. The true target, though, isnt the company whose principals have been indicted, but encryption itself. A couple of years ago the DOJ decided to bring RICO charges against Phantom Secure, a cellphone provider that catered to the criminal element with "uncrackable" phones/messaging services built on existing Blackberry hardware/software. The FBI ap...

Print The CEO of a Canadian communications firm has been indicted in San Diego on charges of facilitating drug trafficking and money laundering around the world through encrypted cellphones. The indictment comes on the heels of a landmark prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego against Phantom Secure, another encrypted communications provider based out of Canada and favored by criminal organizations globally. The latest charges, returned by a federal grand jury Friday, target ...

Get Permission A advertisement for the now defunct Phantom Secure, which law enforcement officials say sold encryption services to criminal gangs Assets worth $4 million have been seized by authorities in Singapore from the former CEO of Phantom Secure, a now-defunct encrypted telecommunications services provider that offered services to transnational organized criminal syndicates. The confiscated funds are now being transferred to the U.S., according to the Justice Department. Canada-based Ph...

0 Engagements Close to US$4 million (S$5.3 million) in illicit funds linked to a group that provided encrypted telecommunications devices and network services used by transnational organised criminal syndicates have been seized in Singapore. A total of US$3,971,468.40 was seized from four bank accounts here by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force and US authorities, said the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday. PHANTOM SECURE The funds belonged t...