Thu, Jun 10th 2021 12:03pm
Tim Cushing
Recently unsealed documents have revealed the FBI and the Australian Federal Police ran a backdoored encrypted communications service for more than three years, resulting in dozens of arrests and several large drug busts. Here s a brief summary via Joseph Cox for Motherboard.
For years the FBI has secretly run an encrypted communications app used by organized crime in order to surreptitiously collect its users messages and monitor criminals activity on a massive scale, according to a newly unsealed court document. In all, the elaborate operation netted more than 20 million messages from over 11,800 devices used by suspected criminals.