A serving Metropolitan Police officer and a former constable have been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison over offensive misogynistic and racist messages shared in a WhatsApp group with killer cop Wayne Couzens.
PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former PC Joel Borders, 45, sent the messages to members of a group named “Bottle and Stoppers”, swapping violent fantasies and using derogatory slurs aimed at black people and Muslims.
And the app connects to the Signal network and leaked Signal users messages too.
That's one of the downfalls of E2E encryption. You might know YOUR end is secure but you don't know about the other guy.
And even his his end is secure, all you know is no-one could read it in transit.
If someone in the group chat gets arrested the cops can read them all.
Remember this: 12 weeks in prison for text messages
Text messages we can now read in the newspaper.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/metropolitan-police-officers-racist-offensive-messages-whatsapp-b1037066.html
A serving Metropolitan Police officer and a former constable have been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison over offensive misogynistic and racist messages shared in a WhatsApp group with killer cop Wayne Couzens.
PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former PC Joel Borders, 45, sent the messages to members of a group named “Bottle and Stoppers”, swapping violent fantasies and using derogatory slurs aimed at black people and Muslims.
The e2e was safe. Just one of the e's was also posting the at rest data to the clear web!
If Hurley knows, everyone knows.