"Through legal requests, authorities will now be able to access the messages for their investigations." 
What Europol really means: all messages on the service have already been intercepted, without prior individualised suspicion, and analysed with Europol's AI data-mining tools, but please send an EIO/MLA request to make the investigation look legal..
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International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals – It is not the first time and will not be the last time that authorities are able to read criminals’ messages in real time | Europol
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