As U.S. warships circle Venezuelan waters and a $50 million bounty hangs over Nicolás Maduro’s head, the world is watching to see if military pressure can crack one of Latin America’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes.
EncroChat’s product wasn’t explicitly designed for criminals. But communication supposedly free from the possibility of surveillance is, unsurprisingly, attractive to organized crime. European investigators managed to hack into it in 2020. Now, they’re having trouble making their arrests stick.
