El Chapo: who broke the encryption of conversations?

The man responsible for the arrest of drug dealer "El Chapo" or Joaquin Guzman by the authorities was revealed on Tuesday.

Two months after El Chapo's trial in New York, the FBI admitted having access to hundreds of phone calls made by Guzman and his associates through a custom encryption system because they had managed to get in touch with sysadmin of the Mexican drug dealer. El Chapo

Guzman's computer controller who martyred the encryption system in the federations was Cristian Rodriguez.

The trial heard numerous recordings of conversations in which Guzman discussed cocaine-trafficking deals, warned his bodyguard not to kill a police officer, and there was even a brief with a corrupt police commander.

These recordings were made because nearly a year earlier a federal agent posing as a Russian gangster met Rodriguez in a New York hotel and told him he needed a system to carry out without the Authorities being able to hear him.

Rodriguez had just installed such a system in Guzman. The secure communications network was a closed, encrypted VoIP network.

IT went to Guzman's headquarters in the Mexican county of Sinaloa and installed the system. So Guzman connected to his home Wi-Fi network and made encrypted calls.

The Federals having the by Rodriguez managed to breach Guzman's network, moving the servers from Canada to the Netherlands – claiming it was an upgrade. But on the new servers the FBI had the news encryption.

From that point onwards, the authorities managed to record every El Chapo call and their content was of course the drugs

The details were described in by FBI special agent Steven Marston, who stated that with the help of Rodriguez they managed to obtain more than 1.500 calls from the encrypted system from April 2011 until January of 2012.

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