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Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice
In March 2021, Bruzzaniti, an alleged member of the infamous ‘Ndrangheta mafia group and who says Milan belongs to him “by right,” asked his brother Antonio to go fetch something else crucial to the traffickers’ success. “Go right now,” Bruzzaniti wrote in a text message later produced in court records. “It’s needed urgently.” Investigators know what Bruzzaniti said because European authorities had penetrated an encrypted phone network called Sky and harvested around a billion of the users’ messages. These phones are the technological backbone of organized crime around the world.
The thing Antonio needed to urgently fetch was a phone from a different encrypted phone network, one that the authorities appear to have not compromised and which the mafia have been using as part of their operations. To that phone, a contact sent one half of the shipping container’s serial number. A reporting collaboration between Motherboard, lavialibera, and IrpiMedia has identified that encrypted phone as being run by a company called No. 1 Business Communication (No. 1 BC). The investigation has found members of the mafia and other organized crime groups turning to No. 1 BC as authorities cracked down on other platforms. The collaboration has identified multiple key players in No. 1 BC’s development, sales, and legal structure. “Take the bc1 right away,” Bruzzaniti wrote in another text, referring to the No. 1 BC phone.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
I’ve been watching TV on demand for over 20 years. Well before streaming, I was picking up the whole run of The Sopranos from the college library and making my way through the seasons. When I graduated, I kept the habit, preferring to watch things from DVD box sets rather than just zoning out in front of the television. Even when I visit family now, I’m the obnoxious one who always has a show they want to watch on Netflix or HBO Max instead of 12 episodes in a row of House Hunters on HGTV. But lately, I’ve been using Pluto TV, and I’ve found myself realizing just how relaxing it is to just let go.
Pluto TV is part of a subcategory of streaming called Free Ad-Supported Television, or FAST. There’s some on-demand content and features, but…