Financial Times: As authorities have stepped up interceptions at major ports, traffickers have kept ahead through sophisticated drop-offs at sea, enabled by encrypted communications, powerful speedboats, unmanned submersibles and GPS spoofing, which involves vessels faking their locations.
“You always have to stay up-to-date, because there’s always a new modus operandi,” says Jürgen Ebner, acting chief of Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency. He warns of a “waterbed effect” — when authorities come down hard in one area it can just push problems somewhere else…