Turkey police nab 50 terror suspects because they used Bylock app

[giuliomagnifico]

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/police-nab-50-feto-terror-suspects-across-turkey/2196026

[giuliomagnifico]

>the suspects included security directors as well as police commissioners who used the terror group's encrypted messaging app ByLock, according to a statement by the office of prosecutors in Ankara

[WarOnPrivacy]

was "because they used Bylock app" ever the actual headline? It presently reads as "Police nab 50 FETO terror suspects across Turkey"

Asking because that seems to hint that the app was cracked - which isn't at all apparent in the article.

My read indicates that the police simply infiltrated the group, using whatever comms the group used.

[giuliomagnifico → WarOnPrivacy]

“ByLock can be considered sole evidence of Gülen network membership: Supreme Court”

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bylock-can-be-considered-s...

[WarOnPrivacy → giuliomagnifico]

Okay. That works.

[giorgosts → WarOnPrivacy]

They can arrest whomever they want for reasons of their own and then they find a way for the arrests to appear legal or justified.