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Anom: A $2,000 smartphone that let the FBI listen in

Posted on June 21, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 18.23 • 2021-06-21

PUBLIC DEFENDER

By Brian Livingston

Special smartphones that were supposedly the most super-secretive in the world actually resulted in at least 800 arrests, the seizure of eight tons of cocaine, and the recovery of $48 million in currency from organized-crime gangs on June 6 and 7.

The FBI, Europol, Australian Federal Police, and the law-enforcement agencies of several other countries announced on June 8 that they had quietly intercepted 27 million messages from what’s being called “WhatsApp for criminals.”

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.23.0 (2021-06-21).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.23.F (2021-06-21).

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