Dutch police seize a secure communications network
At the moment, Ennetcom portrays itself as a victim: a notice on its website decries an “international collaboration” between governments in an attempt to silence a defender of “freedom of privacy.” It also makes no mention of the seizure, and implies that any shutdown was necessary.
While it’s true that law enforcement is sometimes less than sympathetic to encryption, that isn’t necessarily the problem here. It’s more a matter of how that network was used, and how much its owner knew about what was going on with his customers. There’s a good chance that many users are innocent, but that may not matter much if the network operator either condoned the sketchier customers or was involved in shady behavior of his own.
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