I am not defending the criminals, but there might be a problem.
Encrochat was perfectly legal and a legitimate business in its self.
The NCA illegally broke into it, launched Malware and made thousands of handsets into £3000 bricks.
The Lawyers could argue the evidence gathered was obtained illegally, and is therefore inadmissible.
// Important Security Notice Date Issued: 2020-06-12 Date Viewed: 2020-06-13
Today we had our domains seized illegally by government entities. They repurposed our domain to launch an attack to compromise carbon units.
With control of our domain they managed to launch a malware campaign against the carbon to weaken its security.
Due to the level of sophistication of the attack and the malware code, we can no longer guarantee the security of your device. We took immediate action on our network by disabling connectivity to combat the attack.
You are advised to power off and physically dispose of your device immediately. Period of compromise was about 30 minutes and the best we can ascertain was about 50% of the carbon devices in Europe (due to the Updater schedule). //
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