I live in England's South East region, and there haven't been any disturbances here so far from what I can tell. I just wanted to point out that although the murder might have been the last straw for alot of people, posts like this are still getting almost 100K likes on X. Vast swathes of people will always be more concerned about "racism" that actually doing anything to stand up for English people. https://x.com/StanCollymore/status/1819442878956884182
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The government has no practical way to bypass end-to-end, asymmetric encryption (the kind on which Signal, Telegram and even WhatsApp are based) without hacking and controlling the device in advance. This has been a huge problem for law enforcement for about 10 years. Drug trafficking convictions that would once have been easy based on text messages are now all but impossible, because drug dealers only use end-to-end encrypted communications now.
Generally, when convictions are obtained based on these types of messages (usually organized crime cases), it’s because one of the participants handed over his password. The same man who will hand over his password to the feds will identify you to them if he has met you in person.
I will be surprised if the FBI can ever gain access to Thomas Crooks’ encrypted messages.