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Huh, I didn't know encrochat was a legit encrypted chat at first.

Someone told me once it was created as a ruse by the European police, made from the start as a way to take down criminal organisations.

Guess I shouldn't believe everything I'm told! TIL

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They may have confused it with ANOM, which was a government honeypot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM

Ah yeah they did, I recall that calculator app thing from their tale as well.

That's a pretty well made honeypot I must say!

Something tells me that criminal organizations are going to start retaining IT teams specifically to vet platforms like this. Organized crime probably already has significant IT; I seem to recall South American drug cartels using mainframes in like the 90s.

Forget mainframes, how about their own parallel telecom network with over 500 miles of coverage:

https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-c...

And that was over 10 years ago..

They've done a lot of interesting stuff over the years. My personal favourite is the submarine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

there was one called SKY ECC in Europe that, similarly to ANOM, was a honeypot from the get go.

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