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🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Little is known about who invented the EncroChat network and who owned it. Even the police who investigated the criminals using the network, know little about who’s behind it.
Journalists David James Smith and Joseph Cox explain what their investigations into the company reveal.
Plus, why an expert in cryptography thinks the whole EncroChat operation could fall apart on a legal technicality.
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Series Producer: Andrew Hosken Editor and Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Catching the Kingpins is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds.
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0:00.0 | I love you and would kill before I would see you taken from me. |
0:06.0 | Lady Killers is back. |
0:08.0 | Join me Lucy Worsley to investigate infamous female criminals from the past. |
0:13.2 | It's really important that we listen to these voices about the society in which they lived. |
0:18.0 | We're seeking to understand these women from the perspective of 21st century feminists. |
0:23.0 | We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability. |
0:26.0 | Put all the women back, the sinners and the saints. |
0:29.0 | Lady Killers, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:35.0 | Canada Summer 2014. |
0:39.0 | At a restaurant in Calgary, mobile phone wholesaler, an encryption expert, Jeff Green, is being |
0:45.8 | whined and dined by a guy he's never met before. Someone who says he's got a new product |
0:52.0 | for him, a super secure mobile phone. |
0:56.4 | Jeff looks at the spec. |
0:58.8 | It looks impressive. |
1:00.7 | Then comes the pitch. |
1:08.0 | Would Jeff like to carry this new product on his website? Jeff doesn't really know the guy sitting across the table. He doesn't know if you can trust him. |
1:14.8 | But this encrypted phone looks like a great product. Jeff knows he can find retailers |
1:22.3 | for it. |
1:24.0 | Tempting, but Jeff walks away. |
1:30.0 | Two days later, he makes a decision. He's in. What could possibly go wrong? |
1:37.7 | What Jeff, a legit businessman, doesn't realize is that he's just agreed to sell an encrypted phone that will become the industry standard for organized crime. |
1:49.0 | Hit men, money laundering, drug traffickers, large-scale drug importation. |
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