This story has been well covered in the mainstream press, but from our perceptive, some remarks. First, it is grand to see old school police work to bring down the bad guys, after so much woke politically correct activities from the police over the Covid tyranny. Second, it is amazing how vast and globally interconnected the crime world is, with radical jihadists, bikies, Mafia, Asian Organized Crime, you name it, all in some way networking, primarily aided by the internet and Dark Web. Yet, the police managed to suck them all in and take them down, just using an app! I bet that the surviving crimes will be careful about their software in the future! No doubt there are plenty more scumbag drug lords where that came from, but it was fine effort, even more impressive than adventures in the past, like Eliot Ness and the “untouchables,” The Untouchables being my favourite TV show, which was last repeated in I think the late 1980s. I miss it. A really good movie could be made out of this present bust, and maybe I will start work on a script.
https://theconversation.com/how-an-app-to-decrypt-criminal-messages-was-born-over-a-few-beers-with-the-fbi-162343