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Source: Sky ECC website
Police say they have disrupted Sky ECC, a global encrypted communications network allegedly used by numerous criminals to plan their operations.
Law enforcement authorities say Sky's cryptophone service, which includes both infrastructure and apps, is run from the United States and Canada, using infrastructure and private servers based in Europe as well as the service's own SIM cards. Sky ECC devices are available via various plans, with a six-month subscription running from $950 to $2,600.
Despite the service being encrypted, investigators in Belgium, France and the Netherlands say that since February, they have been monitoring 3 million messages exchanged daily by Sky ECC's 170,000 global users and disseminating intelligence to law enforcement agencies.
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Europol, the EU's law enforcement intelligence agency, and the European Commission are launching a new decryption platform to help law enforcement agencies decrypt data that has been obtained as part of a criminal investigation.
By circumventing encryption rather than weakening it, Europol's approach aims to satisfy both law enforcement agencies and privacy advocates, says Jim Killock, executive director at the Open Rights Group.
"Where police are authorized by an independent authority to gain passwords or crack a device, then getting around encryption is legitimate," he says. "What is not legitimate is weakening encryption for the vast majority of us who are innocent bystanders and need security from crime, or stockpiling knowledge of software vulnerabilities which expose everyone to ongoing risks from criminals."
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