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FBI Selected Dedicated Server in the Netherlands to Tap Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’

📅 January 9, 2019 - The notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán (61), alias ‘El Chapo' who was captured (again) by Mexican authorities in January 2016 after a bloody raid and was extradited to the US in January 2017, communicated with others through encrypted Blackberry phones in 2011 and 2012. The Sinaloa Cartel used their own dedicated server for encryption. But the FBI managed to recruit an IT specialist from the cartel as an informant and they selected an Amsterdam-based dedicated server to tap El Chapo and intercept his conversations.

As the conditions in the US for tapping dedicated servers (leaseweb.com ) are much stricter than for example in the Netherlands, the FBI decided to deploy a dedicated [...][... Check source for end of article ...]

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