The FBI’s Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate
The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.”
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-anom-phone-network-encryption-debate/
Import requirements, shipping container logistics—the FBI had seen it all, hammered out over a series of texts dating back to October on the Anom encrypted phone network. Federal agents hadn’t cracked Anom’s cryptography, or paid off an informant directly involved in the canny deal. They had, along with the Australian police, spent the past three years running the whole system.