Spyware Brought Down the Drug Cartel
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 13/02/2019
https://youtu.be/S7uZrN-axQE
After a trial lasting nearly three months, the head of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted Tuesday and now faces the possibility of life in prison.
The trial revealed that a large part of the incriminating evidence was obtained from tapping El Chapo’s phone and the cartel’s encrypted phone network.
The tap was made possible after Guzman’s aide gave the FBI access to conversations involving the cartel leader, utilizing a spyware called FlexiSpy that El Chapo himself had ordered installed in the phones of his wife and associates.
One of the companies claiming to take part in the operation to take down the cartel leader was the Israeli NSO Group. However, despite statements made by one of the company’s founders on the matter, NSO was not mentioned during the trial.
The prestige war notwithstanding, one thing is certain: the capture and conviction of the Mexican drug lord were made possible thanks to spyware.
https://youtu.be/S7uZrN-axQE
After a trial lasting nearly three months, the head of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted Tuesday and now faces the possibility of life in prison.
The trial revealed that a large part of the incriminating evidence was obtained from tapping El Chapo’s phone and the cartel’s encrypted phone network.
The tap was made possible after Guzman’s aide gave the FBI access to conversations involving the cartel leader, utilizing a spyware called FlexiSpy that El Chapo himself had ordered installed in the phones of his wife and associates.
One of the companies claiming to take part in the operation to take down the cartel leader was the Israeli NSO Group. However, despite statements made by one of the company’s founders on the matter, NSO was not mentioned during the trial.
The prestige war notwithstanding, one thing is certain: the capture and conviction of the Mexican drug lord were made possible thanks to spyware.
