This is exactly why open source messaging is important.<p>The statement from the article:<p>European Union police agency Europol described Operation Trojan Shield/Greenlight as the "biggest ever law enforcement operation against encrypted communication".<p>Is telling; their way of mind is that any use of encrypted communication is something to be targeted.<p>This time it was something that absolutely needed taken down. I'm not so sure about next time.
Kind of surreal that this worked. How come nobody suspected the plot? How come criminals didn't ... ahem ... invest in their own communication platform?