“But in 2015, the number of wiretaps authorized by US state courts rose by 21% (an alarming figure in its own right, especially since not one of those requests was turned down), while the number of times in which these wiretaps ran into any form of crypto fell, from 22 incidents to 7. For federal wiretaps, the total number of crypto encounters was 4, and one of those was with bad crypto that law enforcement could break.”

DoJ report: less than a quarter of one percent of wiretaps encounter any crypto