[ There seems to be more than a small amount of disinformation associated with this story.
[ It's *possibly* because of misunderstandings by reporters (although that's a lot less likely with a specialist reporter like Juha). [ I imagine the various LEAs involved have intentionally sown confusion, in order to limit the intel provided to organised crime. [ There's an app involved, but whether the app was kidnapped by LEAs is less clear. The fatal flaw in the security design may have instead been the dependence on web-services that had fairly apparent vulnerabilities. AFP and FBI sting used encrypted app to intercept crims' comms Provided intelligence for three years. Juha Saarinen itNews Jun 8 2021 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/afp-and-fbi-sting-used-encrypted-app-to-intercept-crims-comms-565626 ... The FBI gained access to the AN0M app in 2018, and started running it clandestinely, installed on Google Android devices that criminals sold to each other. "The app AN0M was installed on mobile phones that were stripped of other capability," AFP said. ... With some 11,000 users worldwide, and 1650 people in Australia said to have used the devices running An0m on them, criminals "handcuffed each other". The anom.io website has been seized by law enforcement ... AN0M ... used Google and Amazon Web Services features hosted in the US that made it easy to track users. "Stay away from AN0M if you value your privacy & safey [sic], they are compromised, liars and your data is running via USA - passed onto law enformcenet and other entities," the site warned. ... -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
