Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Rising Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times in 2013

The spread of usable encryption tools hasn't exactly made law enforcement wiretaps obsolete. But in a handful of cases over the past year--and more than ever before--it did shut down cops' attempts to eavesdrop on criminal suspects, the latest sign of a slow but steady increase in encryption's adoption by police targets over the last decade.

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