FBI, Europol and Australian Police arrest over 800 Criminals

[arista]

[Hundreds of people have been
arrested and murder plots thwarted after
criminal gangs were duped into using
an app being watched by police around the world.
A joint investigation led by the FBI, Europol and
Australian Federal Police (AFP) saw US officials
take control of an encrypted messaging app
called ANOM in 2018.
The plan was conceived after the FBI took down
a previous secure app
favoured by criminals - Phantom Secure.
It saw ANOM downloaded on to special mobile
phones that were then bought my criminals
on the black market, with the
encrypted messaging service hidden
within the calculator feature.
Police forces worldwide were then able to
access 27 million messages - exposing the
work of organised crime syndicates in
more than 100 countries, Europol's
deputy director of operations said on Tuesday.]


https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-arrested-murder-plots-thwarted-and-drugs-seized-after-criminals-duped-into-using-app-monitored-by-police-12327609

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57394831

[Zizu]

Great idea of them to share their successful methods with everyone


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[arista]

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[Parmy]

All we need is names now...I bet that changes overnight.

[Nicky91]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/06/international-op-involving-fbi-encryption-network-leads-to-49-arrests-in-nl/

49 arrests in Netherlands

[Oliver_W]

All we need is names now...I bet that changes overnight.

What do you mean?

[bots]

i always thought that was considered entrapment. I'm not complaining, its great to get crims off the street, just not sure how it fits with the general public and privacy rules. If for example, the crims shared innocent info on their families etc unrelated to crime, i would have said it was a no no for the agencies to intercept that