Investigations in the Czech Republic, followed by analyses from Duncan Campbell and Bill Goodwin, indicate that the EncroChat devices were accessed through a publicly known Android vulnerability and the open source tool Frida. This raises the question of what, if anything, was ever covered by French military state secrecy.

(Judgment 7B_1429/2025 of 5 August 2026) In its interim decision of 15 August 2025, the Zurich Court of Appeal ruled that the SkyECC data in the underlying drug-trafficking proceedings was absolutely inadmissible. The court ordered the data to be removed from the case file, holding that its use breached two distinct principles: the decryption process infringed Switzerland's territorial sovereignty, and, independently, the underlying covert surveillance measure had not been ba

Verified documents from the FBI's Project Trojan Shield show that the courts asked to authorise the ANOM data collection were deliberately deceived about the platform's true origin and operator, a finding that affects ANOM prosecutions across numerous countries.