Sextortion and the going dark debate (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

One interesting feature of the sextortion research we released this week—a feature we did not discuss in the papers themselves—is the interaction between this issue and the “going dark” debate. We left this matter out of the papers themselves because the papers were about sextortion as a phenomenon and possible solutions to the problems it poses. But a relatively large group of cases involving both large numbers of text messages (sent by various means on different services) and huge volumes of stored communications and images offers an interesting set of opportunities to look at how “dark” law enforcement really is going

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/05/23-sextortion-going-dark-debate-wittes