08-16, 14:00–14:50 (US/Eastern), Marillac Auditorium
Law enforcement agencies compromising entire encrypted communication platforms to read peoples’ messages is no longer an outlier. It is the new normal. That includes the FBI taking a tech startup called Anom and inserting its own backdoor, French authorities pushing a malicious update to tens of thousands of EncroChat devices, European cops hacking another company called Sky, or any of the increasing number of related cases. In this talk, Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media and author of Dark Wire will detail police tactics, pulling from his nearly ten years of covering the encrypted phone industry.
Joseph Cox is an investigative journalist covering surveillance, the digital underground, and privacy. He is a co-founder of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. He is also the author of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever, which tells the inside story of how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone company to wiretap the world.
