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Tremendous innovation, dedication and unprecedented international collaboration, and the results are staggering. here's a but more detail about the operation. it all began after the fbi decided to target encrypted messaging services, thought to be used by organised crime. it first dismantled two existing services and then began operating its own encrypted device company called anom. devices with the chat app were distributed in the criminal underworld. australian police said the devices were initially used by alleged senior crime figures, giving other criminals the confidence to use the platfo...

Company called anom. devices with the chat app were distributed in the criminal underworld. australian police said the devices were initially used by alleged senior crime figures, giving other criminals the confidence to use the platform. police said fugitive australian drug trafficker hakan ayik was key to the sting, having unwittingly recommended the app to criminal associates after being given a handset by undercover officers. officers were able to read millions of messages in "real time" describing murder plots, mass drug import plans and other schemes. more than 4,000 members of the austr...

The fbi, with three years covert operation there. yes, 9000 officers were involved, 4500 of those were australian, 500 search warrants executed, more than 200 arrests made, 3000 kg of drugs, more than $35 million were seized. a really, really big scale, huge scale operation there. but as you say, it is the trickery, the technology part of it that makes this quite remarkable, david. the fact the fbi and afp were able to trick major figures in the organised crime in australia into using this encrypted application called anom, and intercept and read up to 25 million messages in real—time, open ...