Users of Anom can learn if they’re under investigation by typing in their username and smartphone details into a form on the site.
😂 Nice try
One possibility is that Russia can read the encryption. They push, or allow, people to use Telegram because it gives false confidence that messages cannot be read which encourages people to share information they otherwise wouldn’t.
That exact strategy has been employed by the Security and Intelligence services of other nations; including the United States.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I doubt that is what is going on here since it’s their military using this. That Anom story is terrifying. Entrapment techniques like that make me sick. For. Every “criminal” they caught think of how many innocent people were violated by this.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
What was the entrapment? The FBI sold phones to suspected criminals and monitored the conversations, didn’t they?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Nonsense. How do you market an encryption platform exclusively to criminals? That may have been their target but there would be a large number of innocents that downloaded this as a secure messaging system.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, it was marketed in the dark web marketplaces as “the phone for criminals”
That app could run only on a special custom ROM. It was a dedicated phone, a Google pixel 4a with locked bootloader and a custom ROM that exclusively allowed to communicate with other anom users. You don’t buy a $2000 phone that could only communicate with other $2000 phones if you don’t have something to hide.
It might have happened that maybe a millionaire with disposable income bought a set to talk with his secret girl affair but those were definitely the minority
sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Apparently through word of mouth and suggestions by undercover agents.
The app wasn’t made available for download. The FBI bought a few thousand Pixels, flashed a custom ROM onto them, and then installed the messaging apps. In theory they cost thousands of dollars to buy.
It’s entirely possible some innocents used the system, but it’s unclear how selling rooted hardware to alleged criminals would induce them to commit crime.
See www.npr.org/2024/05/31/…/fbi-phone-company-anom