Europol has broken the Threema encryption, at least in one case

Here is the article (in Slovak): https://www.cas.sk/clanok/844659/europol-prelomil-kocnerovu-sifrovanu-komunikaciu-podozrive-zistenie/ In short this article is about a guy, Marian Kočner, who supposedly payed for the killing of a Slovak journalist and his fiance last year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J%C3%A1n_Kuciak . His phone has been examined by the Europol team and they finally got the encrypted communication. It is believed that they will find there a lot of useful information, because his normal phone is missing a log of calls from 19. 2. 2018 to 14. 3. 2018 which is suspicious, given the date of the murder 21.2.2018. This weird lack of calls was the first big hint, because Ko4ner is a guy who made a ton of calls everyday. Meeting with all kinds of people and talking to allk kinds of people is what he is famous for. He basically do everything from recording politicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Q7xffyASU to paying for some murderers like in this case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60QdmdH2gI This is certainly an interesting information for those who use Threema https://threema.ch/en and think they are safe. submitted by /u/shkfeua [link] [comments]