unencrypted text

To remedy that, they ordered up systems to eavesdrop on phone calls and unencrypted text messages.

But Gendler discovered that one of those files, snippets.db, was storing the unencrypted text of emails that were supposed to be encrypted.

It was later reported that, in fact, the attackers used unencrypted text messages.

The Paris attacks, whose perpetrators exchanged numerous unencrypted text messages, were a grim reminder that capable but overstretched security services cannot thwart every terrorist plot.

In fact, a cellphone belonging to one of the attackers suggested that they had communicated using unencrypted text messages.