If you’ve spent any time on the “dark web” this is super-obvious. They all love encryption, and most software developers are completely incompetent when it comes to encryption so backdooring an app is trivial. Hell, even well-known crypto libraries have implementations that rely on clearly false assumptions.

From what little discussion I have seen on some DN forums, this “solution” as well as similar ones were clowned upon. Because proprietary, centralized and thus not allowing anyone to check their claims.

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I’m not watching some stupid half hour video when I can read an article in five minutes. Fucking YouTube spammers.

I bet a LLM AI could summarize it down to half a minute of reading

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Maybe, but it will never reach the same mainstream audiences as the big YouTuber talking about it.

This video is good because it presents privacy to normal people, but around these parts it’s probably more like bland entertainment at best.

NoteGPT says:

Summary🔍 The FBI ran the largest criminal social network, resulting in worldwide takedowns of criminal syndicates involved in drug trafficking and other illicit activities. #### Highlights- 💻 ExpressVPN is a trusted VPN service that protects your IP address and hides your online activities from prying sources.- 🌐 End-to-end encryption ensures secure messaging between individuals, but it can be used for both good and bad purposes.- 🕵️‍♂️ The FBI created a company called Anom and sold encrypted devices to criminals, infiltrating over 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries.- 📲 Anom’s smartphones, with military-grade encryption, were promoted as a safe and confidential platform by criminal influencers worldwide.- 🚀 Criminals unknowingly sent encrypted messages that were also forwarded to an FBI server, resulting in the cataloging of 27 million incriminating messages.- 🚓 The operation led to 800 arrests, seizure of tons of drugs, firearms, and millions of dollars in currencies, along with dismantling 50 drug labs.- ⚠️ The FBI’s sting operation showcased the dangers and limitations of encrypted platforms being used by criminals for illegal activities.

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Lmao…gotta love finding the commercial in the highlight reel

I was wrong. More like 10 seconds

this is jusg VPN ad spam isnt it?

Nah.FBI tricked criminals into using a network they could monitor.

Motherboard did an extensive series of articles about this, they even got an an0m phone.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e733/anom-fbi-andrew-young-encryption-honeypot

Yes, FBI and the other agencies do have a lot of influece in everthing to do with gov’t/media.

Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald and some others report on FBI.

Matt Taibbi and twitter files also showed how social media companies and gov’t work together.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009000619/https://greenwald.substack.com/p/fbi-using-the-same-fear-tactic-from

https://web.archive.org/web/20231029074455/https://www.aaronmate.net/p/fbi-helps-ukraine-censor-twitter

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