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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 Cross hotel, is brief and blurry. Yet it offered an important clue about Ayik’s movements many years a...

Juha Saarinen: Encryption is not a criminals-only tool 11 May, 2021 07:00 AM 5 minutes to read Encryption isn't 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." That's one hell of a broad and sweeping statement for ACIC to make at a time when ransomware attac...

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 likely did after they cuffed Ramos was reach into his pocket and grab his BlackBerry. That device, and th...

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 Canadian-based Sky Global, said in a statement following the indictment announced on Friday. “It seems ...

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 company's 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 communications network" for criminals. They have also been charged with a conspiracy to distribute control...