Yes, they used plain SMS, but that&#x27;s irrelevant. What matters for the policy makers is the propaganda.<p>A Belgian minister saw a PS4 console in a terrorist&#x27;s room and concluded that the bad guys used the encrypted PS4 messaging system to communicate. The newspapers ran with it and this is the official narrative even today.<p>Guess who gets more funding to intercept more encrypted communication? And not just in France. Italy is joining the fun too, with the postal police getting new &quot;terror watch&quot; units that snoop on even more stuff to keep us safe.