How the Mueller investigation was hampered by encryption apps and disappearing messages

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How the Mueller investigation was hampered by encryption apps and disappearing messages
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Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team accumulated scores of communications over its nearly two year investigation -- not just texts and emails, but also Apple iMessages, and messages from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter

Yet the special counsel's investigation was hampered at times by some of the most commonly prescribed methods that privacy advocates say people should use to communicate securely: the use of a solid encryption app like Signal as well as the practice of deleting all messages after a period and deleting all backups of those messages.Despite the report's comprehensive 448 pages, it could have been longer if Mueller's team had access to more communications.

According to court documents, two unnamed witnesses"both preserved the messages they received from Manafort and Person A, which were sent on encrypted applications, and have provided them to the government."Encryption apps stymied MuellerBut Manafort kept some things secret."The Office was not, however, able to gain access to all of Manafort's electronic communications ," the special counsel's report says.

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