BlackBerry Messenger was tracked by narcotics agents investigating a huge cartel cocaine operation, ... [+] Forbes has learned. As the drug barons chatted about shifting cocaine and how to avoid the narcs over BlackBerry Messenger, a wiretap on a server in Texas was quietly collecting all their communications. It’s unclear how or when the DEA got access to the BlackBerry server. “There would be no case without the without the Title III on BlackBerry Messenger,” said Dave DeVillers, who was recently nominated as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. Fishermen and spiesHowever those BlackBerry messages were intercepted, they helped illuminate a dark criminal conspiracy constructed of myriad parts.

Source: Forbes October 25, 2019 17:26 UTC