The suspects communicated with cryptophones
including disabling GPS location, Google services, Bluetooth, the camera, the USB port, obscuring push notifications and blocking any other service that could create a risk of interception or localization". "Even the use of cards External SD - the document still reads - is prohibited. The calls remain active, but only in VoIP mode, therefore without the use of the GSM network and messaging, but with proprietary and encrypted applications. Despite these precautions, the contents of the chats were revealed as some foreign authorities and judicial police (in particular the Dutch, Belgian and French) have 'violated' the servers where the conversations were stored, acquiring the data contained therein".