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The Narco Hack

The Narco Hack

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Sky ECC is an encrypted messaging app that has been deemed impenetrable and consequently, organised crime and drugs cartels confidently use the app to conduct their illicit operations. French law enforcement is determined to dismantle Sky ECC's digital defences and expose members of the underworld and their illegal activities. A three-part documentary directed by Ksenia Bolchakova and Simon Bouisson follows investigators as they attempt to hack the system and gather undeniable evidence of wrongdoing on a massive scale.

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Jack Seale

A three-part documentary telling the jaw-dropping tale of Sky ECC, an app that offered a simple service to its paid subscribers: messaging that was so deeply and impenetrably encrypted, nobody could ever, ever see what you’d written on there. It became a haven for organised crime groups – until 2021, when French investigators hacked it.

The programme takes you through the three parts of the narrative: the app’s glory days as a sanctuary for the underworld, the efforts to crack it, and the day when the hackers won, which was Christmas for the investigators trying to bring kingpins down: suddenly those secret messages, any one of which might have been fuel for a major prosecution, were accessible in their thousands.

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7.2/10

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