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Euro cops take $1.65bn of blow off the streets after poring over messages Share Copy The Belgian plod says it seized 27.64 tons of cocaine worth €1.4bn (£1.2bn, $1.65bn) from shipments into Antwerp in the past six weeks after defeating the encryption in the Sky ECC chat app to read drug smugglers' messages. "During a judicial investigation into a potential service criminal organization suspected of knowingly providing encrypted telephones to the criminal environment, police specialists managed to crack the encrypted messages from Sky ECC," the Belgian police claimed, CNN reports. "...

The Belgian customs service has uncovered tonnes of cocaine worth nearly €1.2 billion in Antwerp after police officers decrypted communications sent by cri

Archyde April 5, 2021 by archyde The investigation into the Sky ECC encrypted communications network, used by criminal groups, is continuing. However, Belgian customs announced on Monday April 5 that they had seized more than 27 tonnes of cocaine in the port of Antwerp since February 20. This quantity of drugs represents a market value of 1.382 billion euros, specifies the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office in a press release, adding that the most important seizure took place on the night of Friday to Saturday, with the discovery of nearly 11 tons of cocaine in a container. “During the la...

Sky Global head hits back after being indicted for offering encrypted app - SiliconANGLE

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 ...