Actually, TOR was and still is (kind of) a pain for them to hack but it’s been done before, usually via distribution of a hacked client, trying to get one acting as a gateway. I’m sure it’s been done many times since =) .
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FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
The guy had also worked on Phantom Secure and Sky Global.
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It was an international operation, involving police forces all over the world. So sooner or later it would have been leaked by a corrupt cop to someone. This operation could only go on for a short while.
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We got close to a hundred arrests related to this in Finland, as well as plenty of drugs, money and guns confiscated. Also, the police found a 3d printing setup in a warehouse, making gun parts illegally.
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So now the criminals are going to make their own software?
There are two rules of encryption technology, that I know about and understand:
Never roll your own.
Never trust it if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
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I would think so. The cartels in Mexico have made their own radio communications networks using kidnapped engineers.
Can-and-string telephones aren’t as secure as you might expect, as Bart and Milhouse learned.
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