Imagine using something for years, believing it to be safe from the eyes of the government... And it turns out it is literally a government run operation.
The FBI literally ran at least one darknet market for like 6 months, if not multiple. And allowed real transactions to take place. Honeypots are kinda ingenius,
Fun-fact: the term "military grade" is used in fictional setting to emphasize quality whereas the real "military grade" means to produce it widely for cheap as possible.
Some "military grade" things are actually military grade meaning really good such as vest/body armor has to be good and hold up the certain standards to keep people alive also ammunition they get access to nato rounds which are the best when it comes to penetration rations lol they taste like shit but last years on end need I go on ?
@@tpd1864blakelevel 4, lvl 5+ is better tho and what I assume the military would use. Not trying to correct you to be a douche or anything, moreso just if you wanna use it in the future lol
xD like even i was just confused and thinking....."it's not that the FBI is smart.....just criminals are uniquely simpletons" and make their jobs easier
The amount of thieves we have caught because they stare at cameras is astonishing. I work in retail theft prevention and some idiots really walk into a store while staring at cameras. Way to draw attention. @@КГБКолДжорджКостанца
Always PGP, assume it's all a trap. They were literally able to get BIOS level access on air-gapped machines via inaudible noise pushed through a computer microphone in like 2010, who knows how crazy it's gotten now.
The main thing that law enforcement will do is allow small time distributors they've identified to keep doing their thing so they can then track down the actual leaders of the enterprise to shut it from the top down. If they just immediately blow the cover of a honeypot to arrest a few people, then the actual leaders get away and nothing actually gets shut down. Tracking things down like leaders, labs, and distribution methods can take a while so not blowing their cover was the smart thing to do in the long run.
Evil. Any government agency turning cheek to victims so they can get the “BIG bad guy” aren’t doing it for the safety of the citizens, but for the promotion and possible media fame.
While yes I believe they are looking for leader to smash them from top to down, it doesnt mean they cannot bait them.and I doubt criminal group leader who is good enough to hide from law enforcement will ever need to use "Privacy-Focused" device. Most of them will just use burner phone anyway. It just sad. Yes FBI do good, but they just turn blind eye most of the time. someone with fucking braincell can work out that Anom is federal agency operation if they read "Definitely not federal agency"
Like it's literally the same thing the Allies did in WW2. Once they broke enigma, if they intervened on every piece of intel instead of cherry-picking, Germany would've quickly rebuilt it, extending the war by years.
We all know what the CIA did in southeast Asia, help a dictator despite innocent lives being killed all for the sake of stopping the growing "threats of communism.....oy oy ou
The FBI probably runs several of the VPN services you and others get sponsored by on youtube. I'm sure the FBI runs many, many things that look normal and average people use regularly without being looked in on because there's no reason for them to do so
Honestly i assume that all VPNs are owned by one government agency or another; honestly the services offered sound like theyd need resources on the scale of a state
Eh, that’s a bit too conspiratorial imo. I think there is a healthy level of scepticism to have and ya, they probably have their fingers in a few things. But also VPN’s are super profitable and there probably are also just a lot of legitimate business trying to profit. Well, as legitimate as a VPN provider can be. Not everything is a spy movie. These agencies aren’t super human either they are ran by regular people. Remember kids, never go full schizo :D
@@tricursor2481it's not about helping people; it's about making them slaves to the system. They won't legalize drugs because then the food-pharma-insurance triangle loses billions. The government is NOT your friend.
@@AbandonedVoidpretty sure there’s a law put in place to prevent this issue, but whether government agencies actually follow this law is questionable. Hard to regulate something as flimsy and untraceable as the internet.
Funny part is, impenetrable secure communication is free, it is called PGP, but it needs to be set up manually between people you plan to talk to, but most of the people that can set it up actually have nothing important to hide.
If you're really FBi, then show us your regulation issue training bras? Shots ring out.. gun fight ensues... If they were real FBI.. they would know, a G-Man never shows his regulation training bra.. WWEHD! What Would Edgar Hoover Do?
It was an FBI AFP (aus fed police) pretty much from the beginning. Australia has weaker privacy protections in our constitution and a lot of the servers were here. I'm ambivalent about this approach but it's not true that this wasn't used before the big crackdown. There are a few now public cases where the data was used to intercept drug trades, prevent murders and even terror plots. It did however create paranoia within some crim orgs who thought someone was snitching and this may have caused violence where it wouldn't have otherwise happened.
One thing to add to your summation of "At the end of the day, if your investigation hurts people, your harm has outweighed the good you've done" is doubly true if you flat our provide a 'favorable alternative method' to carry out such harm. ANOM advertised itself as being the best alternative specifically for illicit/private business, likely causing an upturn or entrapment in the activity.
@@Unknown_Genius The problems they pretend to want to solve only get worse so... aren't we better off if the government just fucked off? Literally leaving criminals alone would make things better than their "help"
I wonder if they used the information gathered from ANOM to prevent crime BEFORE it happened. Otherwise, it looks like they prefer to let crime happen if make arrests later rather than stopping the crime before it occurs.
Of course they prefer the first, they want to take out entire criminal gangs and cartels etc not just take out certain people also they can keep incriminating themselves
Have you seen court cases where feds arrested people *before* they commit a crime? You can't predict the future and that case can get dismissed. If they do it, now they have evidence
Are you familiar with the term house of cards?@@carloscjr23 take away a card and the cartel stays intact and they find a replacement take out the entire house and its over with
@@thelonecourier3439 first one in Story wise made a great introduction, ueah but game play overall was bland, wd2 especially side operations felt pretty cool
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца 1 and 2 and bangers (haven't played 3) and the ONLY black mark I have against them is the selection of music (the possible radio) in the WD series
....american government at best....what fool waves the US flag saying "i love my country and my proud government" no matter which party, both political parties are working in hands to do nothing but control people, so they should stop with this ride the blue wave, or ride the red wave shit, it's no different
@@gtamonkey3061 These people did not commit petty, small crimes. Plus, jaywalking isn’t a real crime and only exists bc car companies laundered money. Not saying the US government is good, but like… these were not people who just wanted to see a movie on Pirate Bay. These were probably actual criminals.
I wonder if everyone who purchased the anom phone got a refund? They technically sold you a phone that’s unusable and doesn’t match what was advertised
Out in the wilderness with no cellphones around is the only way to keep anything a secret. If you're not doing that, the FBI has just decided to let you go free.
well funny, maybe thats why I found a 2000$ phone on the ground randomly around my home and nobody has yet to claim it... >_> It's a funny theory at least that homies are dropping free phones to spy on homies- wait a minute... Lmao
@@craigsampson3386just dug a tunnel that leads into a dense forest. If they surveiled the tunnel entrances using satellite, then make maze inside the tunnel and put guards at the entrance and check point. That way if the government want to raid them then you have plenty times to be notified by the guards at checkpoint.
Funny how free is becoming scarce because our entire life is now an open book on line. Become a RUclipsr or any kind of influencer and eventually your entire life history will sooner or later get aired out. Subscribers pretty much require you to do so so they can identify with you. No one wants to support an anonymous personality for too long.
if only we knew when this happened, id just get 2 phones and resend bunghole pics back and forth, give them feds something to look at over and over, there could be a secret message in there
oh lord this cracked me up, just imagining a group of fbi agents pouring over a bunch of information and seeing a message log where its just different pictures of the same asshole wondering what the fuck is going on
Add on a second layer of confusion and make the texts irregular, sometimes its 5 pics at once, sometimes 1, sometimes color edits, sometimes flipping the image, etc etc No rhyme or reason to it. Itd drive em crazy. Lol
I’m glad I watched this video because there was actually a hit that was prevented from happening around the corner from my house in a highly populated area because of Trojan Shield (called “Operation Ironside” in Aus). I heard that it was Australian Federal Police that set it up, but learning that it was a world-wide FBI Honeypot doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. There was also a dude on-selling these phones to high ranking Comanchero bikie members who AUSPOL had been struggling to convict for years and this 20 year old hands them to the police on a silver platter. I wouldn’t want to be that kid in prison…
It gets better...What about guys who are supposed to stop crime are actually criminals themselves? Of course, I'm not saying all of them are criminals, but anyone with enought time in the internet knows the shady and even evil things the USA's agencies have done in the past (and continue doing), at the expenses of american's taxes...
I love this channel for stories like this. That is literally the only channel I watch every single video from. I subscribe a lot of channels but none of them made me watch every upload.
To Muta's last point, even if Anom hadn't been used, criminals would have found other ways to commit crimes. If the FBI is at fault for allowing bad things to happen to get evidence, what should have been done instead?
Honestly even if you are clueless about tech, how someone looks at a phone with "Totally not an FBI honeypot, trust me bro" practically written on the box and thinks it's legit is beyond me
Oh yeah criminals murder in cold blood: not horrific. FBI potentially looked at someone’s messages in the process of catching the person responsible for the cold blooded murder: horrific
This must be the product with the most pissed off customers ever ! I remember seeing this on the news in the Netherlands. Whole organisations got arrested within a few days and then the whole story about these fake -phones came out.
The way I see it, they let the investigation run so long even though crimes and harm were continuing, in order to dig as deep as possible to get the higher ups rather than small fries. Get a dealer off the street, another dealer will just pop back up. Get the dealer that supplies the dealers, that supply the dealers on the street, and your impact is exponentially bigger. Though I get that this is very much morally questionable. As soon as they arrested a single person and used the evidence gathered from Anom in court, the jig would be up.
"the app was hidden throughout the calculator application" this sounded way too familiar, I heard this in a Vice document about a dealer from the EU.... guess he locked up now 💀 "The Dangerous Rise of Contaminated Weed | High Society"
I can't take the idea of a criminal influencer seriously. Imagine them having videos n shit on announcements or whatever and starting off like "heyyy criminalllsss!" 💀
I love watching your videos because at least when I know it’s your videos the information is correct, you’ve looked into everything 100%, you went through every angle and every scenario. Your videos have no bullshit in them.
Soooo, remember that meme of my FBI agent reading with me... You mean if I used that app, I could actually have an FBI bestie and could have sent him my footsies?
About 5 years ago on a reddit forum, I said that the Gov was doing something like this and all the "experts" on the forum said it would never happen, its too much work for the Gov to do.
Edward Snowden easily proved that statement wrong- long before that Reddit post. The US government has a scarily good surveillance system and connections with telecom providers to back it. Forget legality when it comes to government surveillance because they frequently break the law to get information on people.
Just so you know, all these VPN services are honeypots as well. "Let's convince all these people to funnel their illegal activities through our servers"
There was actually a swedish murder case where a guys "friends" planned a hit on him through this app. Unfortunately the swedish police wasnt let in on it by the FBI until a few weeks later so the person got murdered. Fortunately they could use the chats as evidence to convict the murderers and the guy who sent out the hit, but the guy still lost his life. The chats in that case where they planned the murder are public now and very disturbing to read.
The only way not to get caught is to create your own system, thankfully I was only criminal in my drug induced psychosis, otherwise I’d be on a watchlist
As a student going into cybersecurity and a son of 2 police officers, i really enjoyed and agree with your takes on this whole situation. Good vid as always
With the "I have nothing to hide" argument, what if new laws are passed? For example, with the recent roe v wade abortion overturning, many people suddenly have something to hide, and previous chat logs are being used against them.
Im suprised it took this long for Muta to cover this, remember the shitshow when it was going down. Criminals were scrambling to do away with suspected snitches and it was a mess. One of the most prominent "influencers" in this whole thing is still on the run with an Interpol Red notice on him to this day.
Maybe this is a stupid question and has an obvious answer, but I am going to ask anyways because this is something that I don't believe I have heard almost anyone talk about when discussing encrypted traffic and data with things such as VPNs or just any encrypted communication systems that propose their main purpose is to hide your data. A lot of these companies, to my knowledge (I could be wrong), don't have open source systems for obvious reasons. How do we as consumers really know that what these companies and entities claim is completely true? How do we know that an encrypted messaging system, VPN, or anything in between is actually private and the company that hosts these systems don't just simply siphon off our data without our knowledge? I just feel like this field is really full of very sketchy entities and there, to my knowledge, isn't really a way to verify their claims privately. Again I could be missing something and completely off the mark but that's why I am asking.
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software[a] where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.[3] This is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright licensing and the source code is usually hidden from the users.
Because every single piece of software and operating system you use is proprietary and You don't check the source code of the software you use and you don't host your own software. like self host your own software server.
More like a BlackList episode. Which they actually had. The episode title being, surprise surprise, "Arcane Network". Which was a stupid episode because the task force featured in the show didn't know the network was actually an FBI project.
I'm not weeping for criminals, but it's a bit messed up that law enforcement were just allowed to shut that other service down like that. That's the government effectively saying 'you have no right to privacy.'
I honestly have just got used to the snooping, but I find it annoying that I can't buy a novelty poop knife off amazon (i blame justin whang ) without them thinking I waste my money on complete garbage, now I get advertised crap.
Some Ordinary Gamer : The FBI ran the largest honeypot sting-ops, I won't be complaining about scumbags facing prison time. Some Ordinary Batman : But causing small harm still outweighs the good, you shouldn't become a criminal to stop criminals. Me : watching mutha playing the bad-cop and bat-cop all by him-self ... : O
I think this is a great way to catch criminals. I hope they do more of that and don't use backdoors/vulnerabilities of things normal citizen/businesses use. Such backdoors/vulnerabilities should be reported asap and not be used for years by the gov to catch someone and risk something like ip-theft.
re: the fbi "sitting around and letting crime happen a while"... eh. investigation gotta happen somehow, and this appears to have been the best viable option, since the authorities aren't clairvoyant. yeah, some messed up things happened, but it was kept much lower than if the gangs were to have gotten away with it
Depending on where the mail is from and if anything was detected inside, mail frequently gets searched. You know, because of the illegality of mailing drugs and firearms.
@Wicked_Knight correspondence between 2 individuals is highly protected under law. They can't just search your mail for the words you type. Also legal to mail guns if you do it right.
@graye2799 you go do that then... you don't need to believe me or anyone. Tho I'd love to see this law you speak of because I promise you it's pertaining civilians not the federal government putts
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Who Loves muta vids? I do
Nah pretty sure they went through data breaches along with some controversies I may have remembered but might need someone to clear it up
Imagine using something for years, believing it to be safe from the eyes of the government... And it turns out it is literally a government run operation.
Every VPN service: 😅
Don't forget to get your vaxx. Trust the science.
The FBI literally ran at least one darknet market for like 6 months, if not multiple. And allowed real transactions to take place. Honeypots are kinda ingenius,
every cell phone ever released into the public.
rule 1 for life: if it sounds too good to be true, it is!
Fun-fact: the term "military grade" is used in fictional setting to emphasize quality whereas the real "military grade" means to produce it widely for cheap as possible.
gov loves that low bid stuff
Some "military grade" things are actually military grade meaning really good such as vest/body armor has to be good and hold up the certain standards to keep people alive also ammunition they get access to nato rounds which are the best when it comes to penetration rations lol they taste like shit but last years on end need I go on ?
@@amaliosaenz23but it wouldn’t be called military grade armor, it would be called class IV or whatever armor
Military grade, aka better than nothing, probably works, most of the time, lmao
@@tpd1864blakelevel 4, lvl 5+ is better tho and what I assume the military would use. Not trying to correct you to be a douche or anything, moreso just if you wanna use it in the future lol
Man, the fbi was trolling them at this point.
“We are not federal agents” man I started laughing when I saw that. It’s honestly hilarious.
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*Your walls*
Oh for sure, some FBI agent KNEW what they were doing. Someone needs to be given a bonus for that
I'd call that anti-bait
Everyone's a federal agent unless proven otherwise trust no one
xD like even i was just confused and thinking....."it's not that the FBI is smart.....just criminals are uniquely simpletons" and make their jobs easier
The amount of thieves we have caught because they stare at cameras is astonishing. I work in retail theft prevention and some idiots really walk into a store while staring at cameras. Way to draw attention. @@КГБКолДжорджКостанца
If a social network overtly markets itself as a crime one, its probably a honeypot.
😂😂💯
Wish the government would go after these telegram cash app scammers
@@Wanteyt fr
Always PGP, assume it's all a trap.
They were literally able to get BIOS level access on air-gapped machines via inaudible noise pushed through a computer microphone in like 2010, who knows how crazy it's gotten now.
@@actuallynotsteve what are you referring too?
I love that criminal influencers do as little research into the products they pedal to their followers as social media influences do.
it's like a black market solely for criminals....just like us in the clearnet, except we are not criminal, but they live in their own world
Or maybe they were caught with something and were offered a deal: pedal this for free and you can go free.
I hate the fact that there even is a concept like "Criminal Influencer".
Who tf is the guy in mutas short section?
Imagine using a VPN thinking none of them is run by the FBI while watching a video about networks that turns out were run by the FBI.
The main thing that law enforcement will do is allow small time distributors they've identified to keep doing their thing so they can then track down the actual leaders of the enterprise to shut it from the top down. If they just immediately blow the cover of a honeypot to arrest a few people, then the actual leaders get away and nothing actually gets shut down. Tracking things down like leaders, labs, and distribution methods can take a while so not blowing their cover was the smart thing to do in the long run.
Evil.
Any government agency turning cheek to victims so they can get the “BIG bad guy” aren’t doing it for the safety of the citizens, but for the promotion and possible media fame.
While yes I believe they are looking for leader to smash them from top to down, it doesnt mean they cannot bait them.and I doubt criminal group leader who is good enough to hide from law enforcement will ever need to use "Privacy-Focused" device. Most of them will just use burner phone anyway. It just sad. Yes FBI do good, but they just turn blind eye most of the time. someone with fucking braincell can work out that Anom is federal agency operation if they read "Definitely not federal agency"
This sounds stupid when we're still allowing 100s of cartels in Mexico to traffic anything from drugs to kids.
Like it's literally the same thing the Allies did in WW2. Once they broke enigma, if they intervened on every piece of intel instead of cherry-picking, Germany would've quickly rebuilt it, extending the war by years.
Muta never fails to be targeted by the C.IA.
We all know what the CIA did in southeast Asia, help a dictator despite innocent lives being killed all for the sake of stopping the growing "threats of communism.....oy oy ou
And TSA
ha @@sacknutgaming2428
And Secret Service
@@sacknutgaming2428 and DEA
“we are not federal agents”
criminals: *sounds legit to me*
Yeah don't Believe someone when they say that Unless your gut is telling you to Especially you didn't say you were with the fbi
these man committing crime are usually not very smart
The FBI probably runs several of the VPN services you and others get sponsored by on youtube. I'm sure the FBI runs many, many things that look normal and average people use regularly without being looked in on because there's no reason for them to do so
Honestly i assume that all VPNs are owned by one government agency or another; honestly the services offered sound like theyd need resources on the scale of a state
They don't even have to run everything. They often pressure devs to install backdoors and/or supply data
Eh, that’s a bit too conspiratorial imo. I think there is a healthy level of scepticism to have and ya, they probably have their fingers in a few things. But also VPN’s are super profitable and there probably are also just a lot of legitimate business trying to profit. Well, as legitimate as a VPN provider can be.
Not everything is a spy movie. These agencies aren’t super human either they are ran by regular people. Remember kids, never go full schizo :D
@@tricursor2481it's not about helping people; it's about making them slaves to the system. They won't legalize drugs because then the food-pharma-insurance triangle loses billions. The government is NOT your friend.
@@AbandonedVoidpretty sure there’s a law put in place to prevent this issue, but whether government agencies actually follow this law is questionable. Hard to regulate something as flimsy and untraceable as the internet.
Imagine using a VPN thinking none of them is run by the FBI while watching a video about networks that turns out were run by the FBI.
Funny part is, impenetrable secure communication is free, it is called PGP, but it needs to be set up manually between people you plan to talk to, but most of the people that can set it up actually have nothing important to hide.
This
Haha uh idk about that lol a lot of people use pgp for illicit activities
@@littleskeleton7887 I have never heard of someone caught to use pgp.
@@IlluminatiBGsays alot 👀
@@littleskeleton7887 yea don't use this thing we can't track you guys on because it's used by criminals!!! common fed agent L try better next time
FBI: FBI OPEN UP!
The people on the other side: WE ARE THE FBI!!!
To defeat the criminal
You must become the criminal
KGB WILL WAIT FOR NO ONE
CIA must have that motto @@jfarrar19
If you're really FBi, then show us your regulation issue training bras?
Shots ring out.. gun fight ensues...
If they were real FBI.. they would know, a G-Man never shows his regulation training bra.. WWEHD! What Would Edgar Hoover Do?
Funny story bro, to bad it true, lol.
I never imagined hearing the term "criminal influencer" outside of hyperbole... 😂
Coffezilla joined the chat.
Jk, there's criminal influencers and influencer criminals.
This is fascinating. I'm watching this while stoned out of my mind and I'm still taking everything in. that's how good Mutahar is at explaining stuff.
Have to see how many time Muta says, "Ooooh theeee FBI" 😂
Lol
It was an FBI AFP (aus fed police) pretty much from the beginning. Australia has weaker privacy protections in our constitution and a lot of the servers were here. I'm ambivalent about this approach but it's not true that this wasn't used before the big crackdown. There are a few now public cases where the data was used to intercept drug trades, prevent murders and even terror plots. It did however create paranoia within some crim orgs who thought someone was snitching and this may have caused violence where it wouldn't have otherwise happened.
Whoever suggested anon is now on a forever holiday
Anom*
FBI did FBI things - alternate title
So your telling me MCAFEE was right 💀this confirms everything he said
mcafee was a genius ngl, watch his interview on matt and shanes secret podcast
One thing to add to your summation of "At the end of the day, if your investigation hurts people, your harm has outweighed the good you've done" is doubly true if you flat our provide a 'favorable alternative method' to carry out such harm.
ANOM advertised itself as being the best alternative specifically for illicit/private business, likely causing an upturn or entrapment in the activity.
@@Unknown_Genius The problems they pretend to want to solve only get worse so... aren't we better off if the government just fucked off? Literally leaving criminals alone would make things better than their "help"
I wonder if they used the information gathered from ANOM to prevent crime BEFORE it happened. Otherwise, it looks like they prefer to let crime happen if make arrests later rather than stopping the crime before it occurs.
Of course they prefer the first, they want to take out entire criminal gangs and cartels etc not just take out certain people also they can keep incriminating themselves
Have you seen court cases where feds arrested people *before* they commit a crime? You can't predict the future and that case can get dismissed. If they do it, now they have evidence
You don't get budget rises if you stop crimes before it happens
To be fair they may have had the big end goal target and had yet to get enough evidence on their intended target.
Are you familiar with the term house of cards?@@carloscjr23 take away a card and the cartel stays intact and they find a replacement take out the entire house and its over with
So the FBI kinda played real life Watch Dogs: Law Enforcement Edition on criminals. Would be cool if there’s gonna be game based on this.
Watch dogs and the 2nd one were pretty goated ngl, most people just under-rated the game
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанцаfirst one was better
@@thelonecourier3439Story wise yes but gameplay wd2 got it but, both are goat for me
@@thelonecourier3439 first one in Story wise made a great introduction, ueah but game play overall was bland, wd2 especially side operations felt pretty cool
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца 1 and 2 and bangers (haven't played 3) and the ONLY black mark I have against them is the selection of music (the possible radio) in the WD series
Can’t believe these criminal influencers didn’t disclose that their vids were sponsored
Ikr don't they know that's against the law
Lmao Juntao?! That’s the “head criminal” in Rush Hour with Chris Tucker. Hilarious!
I knew that name rung a bell😂
@@Ucfahmad 😂
I feel pity for the people who put blind trust in our government. 🤷♂️
....american government at best....what fool waves the US flag saying "i love my country and my proud government" no matter which party, both political parties are working in hands to do nothing but control people, so they should stop with this ride the blue wave, or ride the red wave shit, it's no different
This operation is not a reason to do this.
Yeah I don't care because I'm not a criminal.
@@gotworcyou are tho, you’ve jay walked, littered all the little things, you’ve broken the law you’re a criminal
@@gtamonkey3061 These people did not commit petty, small crimes. Plus, jaywalking isn’t a real crime and only exists bc car companies laundered money. Not saying the US government is good, but like… these were not people who just wanted to see a movie on Pirate Bay. These were probably actual criminals.
RIP Muta. We will miss you tons :(
RIP :(
This is public knowledge
i remember someone from the FBI saying "why would we create a spyware, we have facebook..."
I wonder if everyone who purchased the anom phone got a refund? They technically sold you a phone that’s unusable and doesn’t match what was advertised
This is fkn hilarious to me because all the real criminals I know just use the open internet and speak in code 😂
Nah they self snitch lol 😂
discord, signal and telegram. whatsapp is trash 😂
@@Cursed2.0telegram is compromised. I’m no criminal, but it has been since it’s inception.
You don’t know any real criminals
I worked a pub door for years man, it would be statistically impossible for me not to know any criminals, lol @@x-shift8937
Out in the wilderness with no cellphones around is the only way to keep anything a secret. If you're not doing that, the FBI has just decided to let you go free.
well funny, maybe thats why I found a 2000$ phone on the ground randomly around my home and nobody has yet to claim it... >_> It's a funny theory at least that homies are dropping free phones to spy on homies- wait a minute... Lmao
even then you cant guarantee security
Who's gonna tell him about drones and satellites?
@@Xoulrath_ under water caves it is then 😂
@@craigsampson3386just dug a tunnel that leads into a dense forest. If they surveiled the tunnel entrances using satellite, then make maze inside the tunnel and put guards at the entrance and check point. That way if the government want to raid them then you have plenty times to be notified by the guards at checkpoint.
Man, looking back at the Freedom Phone is hilarious. I wouldn't be surprised if it was also a glowie honeypot as well.
Funny how free is becoming scarce because our entire life is now an open book on line. Become a RUclipsr or any kind of influencer and eventually your entire life history will sooner or later get aired out. Subscribers pretty much require you to do so so they can identify with you. No one wants to support an anonymous personality for too long.
You just know that there were one or two REALLY dumb criminals that the guys behind the desk LOVED when their messages popped up
if only we knew when this happened, id just get 2 phones and resend bunghole pics back and forth, give them feds something to look at over and over, there could be a secret message in there
Yeah it's definitely easy to do coded messages that simply would take too much time and resources for them to go through
oh lord this cracked me up, just imagining a group of fbi agents pouring over a bunch of information and seeing a message log where its just different pictures of the same asshole wondering what the fuck is going on
@@hatedd7773the confusion on whoever is looking at these messages would be priceless
@@hatedd7773Throw in a few pics of Kevin Leonardo’s here n there jus to spice things up for them.
Add on a second layer of confusion and make the texts irregular, sometimes its 5 pics at once, sometimes 1, sometimes color edits, sometimes flipping the image, etc etc
No rhyme or reason to it. Itd drive em crazy. Lol
It doesn't feel like black mirror, it's the exact plot of an episode from Black List.
I’m glad I watched this video because there was actually a hit that was prevented from happening around the corner from my house in a highly populated area because of Trojan Shield (called “Operation Ironside” in Aus). I heard that it was Australian Federal Police that set it up, but learning that it was a world-wide FBI Honeypot doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. There was also a dude on-selling these phones to high ranking Comanchero bikie members who AUSPOL had been struggling to convict for years and this 20 year old hands them to the police on a silver platter. I wouldn’t want to be that kid in prison…
Guys who are supposed to stop crime dont stop crime... that's sounds about accurate, not gonna lie.
It gets better...What about guys who are supposed to stop crime are actually criminals themselves? Of course, I'm not saying all of them are criminals, but anyone with enought time in the internet knows the shady and even evil things the USA's agencies have done in the past (and continue doing), at the expenses of american's taxes...
It was a sting
? they did lol
@xyz5413 how do fbi catch the suspect when they are the suspect themselves?
@@veronicaa7748 they aren't lol. they are the ones making the arrest bro. they setup the operation to catch these apes
Who expected such tomfoolery?!!
Gee golly who would've guessed
It takes Mutahar until 5:10 to stop wasting your time with fluff to tell you what the messaging Network was.
thank you
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You da man 🙏💯
thank you 🫡
thank you 😭 i love muta but he do be dragging out the intros too much
I love this channel for stories like this. That is literally the only channel I watch every single video from. I subscribe a lot of channels but none of them made me watch every upload.
If you have millions of dollars. Hire someone to make your tech holy shit. I dont understand. They deserved to get caught
Yeah there are tons of guys that could make something private and encrypted for you
To Muta's last point, even if Anom hadn't been used, criminals would have found other ways to commit crimes. If the FBI is at fault for allowing bad things to happen to get evidence, what should have been done instead?
When Muta mentioned criminal influencers, I immediately think of a certain wrestling drink seller & a doxxing thief.
Honestly even if you are clueless about tech, how someone looks at a phone with "Totally not an FBI honeypot, trust me bro" practically written on the box and thinks it's legit is beyond me
Muta isn't surviving new years
The FBI and committing horrific crimes against humanity never gets old.
Oh yeah criminals murder in cold blood: not horrific.
FBI potentially looked at someone’s messages in the process of catching the person responsible for the cold blooded murder: horrific
The FBI is also the world's largest distributor of CP
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mossad / Israel with Epstein
This must be the product with the most pissed off customers ever ! I remember seeing this on the news in the Netherlands. Whole organisations got arrested within a few days and then the whole story about these fake -phones came out.
It’s shocking the amount of people that still fall for something that is blatantly a honey pot
Some ordinary gamers one of the best channels on RUclips Fr
this is both pretty rad, and pretty scary at the same time. this whole story sounds like flavor text from the cyberpunk 2020 PHB.
The way I see it, they let the investigation run so long even though crimes and harm were continuing, in order to dig as deep as possible to get the higher ups rather than small fries. Get a dealer off the street, another dealer will just pop back up. Get the dealer that supplies the dealers, that supply the dealers on the street, and your impact is exponentially bigger. Though I get that this is very much morally questionable. As soon as they arrested a single person and used the evidence gathered from Anom in court, the jig would be up.
"the app was hidden throughout the calculator application"
this sounded way too familiar, I heard this in a Vice document about a dealer from the EU.... guess he locked up now 💀
"The Dangerous Rise of Contaminated Weed | High Society"
Keep the bangers coming muta
I can't take the idea of a criminal influencer seriously. Imagine them having videos n shit on announcements or whatever and starting off like "heyyy criminalllsss!" 💀
It's like Ganon's Dark World lmao
I love watching your videos because at least when I know it’s your videos the information is correct, you’ve looked into everything 100%, you went through every angle and every scenario. Your videos have no bullshit in them.
he didn't mention the part where FBI broke the law.
FBI did wiretapping on Finnish citizens without court order, that is 100 percent against the law.
Soooo, remember that meme of my FBI agent reading with me... You mean if I used that app, I could actually have an FBI bestie and could have sent him my footsies?
You would be shocked how much haggling is involved in the criminal enterprise. If you accept a deal upfront as-is, you get a target on your back
Child support, student loans, and my ex/baby momma seem to have joined forces and installed similar programs on my devices 😂
Lmfaooooo
Me to my cousin: "Hey, You want a Cheese Pizza?"
FBI: He's talking about...!
Me: **Goes to Dominoes and literally gets a Cheese Pizza.**
FBI: ...Oh...
*Goes to Dominoes to buy a cheese pizza, because that's the only pizza the baby cousin tolerates with*
FBI: GODDAMNIT GODDAMNIT GODDMANIT, so close 🥺
About 5 years ago on a reddit forum, I said that the Gov was doing something like this and all the "experts" on the forum said it would never happen, its too much work for the Gov to do.
Edward Snowden easily proved that statement wrong- long before that Reddit post. The US government has a scarily good surveillance system and connections with telecom providers to back it. Forget legality when it comes to government surveillance because they frequently break the law to get information on people.
Just so you know, all these VPN services are honeypots as well.
"Let's convince all these people to funnel their illegal activities through our servers"
much love muta 🙏
wow! who else is just totally flabberghasted? i really just could've never ever seen this coming! completely broadsided!
Man I'm shocked.....
There was actually a swedish murder case where a guys "friends" planned a hit on him through this app. Unfortunately the swedish police wasnt let in on it by the FBI until a few weeks later so the person got murdered. Fortunately they could use the chats as evidence to convict the murderers and the guy who sent out the hit, but the guy still lost his life. The chats in that case where they planned the murder are public now and very disturbing to read.
The only way not to get caught is to create your own system, thankfully I was only criminal in my drug induced psychosis, otherwise I’d be on a watchlist
Imagine using an app as an criminal and the twitter acc says, were totally not the feds that your trynna escape...
lol I’ve heard of something like this before this whole idea was literally an episode of the Blacklist
The dude being called jun tao like the main antagonist in rush hour is just *chef kiss*
It feels like the people catching the criminals are enabling them
Really? Who do you think would’ve caught them if they were using Facebook messenger instead?
This story is going to make an epic 10 episode show one day
As a student going into cybersecurity and a son of 2 police officers, i really enjoyed and agree with your takes on this whole situation. Good vid as always
With the "I have nothing to hide" argument, what if new laws are passed? For example, with the recent roe v wade abortion overturning, many people suddenly have something to hide, and previous chat logs are being used against them.
yeah of course they did
Im suprised it took this long for Muta to cover this, remember the shitshow when it was going down. Criminals were scrambling to do away with suspected snitches and it was a mess. One of the most prominent "influencers" in this whole thing is still on the run with an Interpol Red notice on him to this day.
Update he was arrested in Istanbul a few days ago
@@vx8431who? I wanna look into it
26:15
I mean FBI was literally breaking the law in this case so it's no surprise they didn't mind others breaking laws either.
Now we know. Muta is True Neutral alignment.
Maybe this is a stupid question and has an obvious answer, but I am going to ask anyways because this is something that I don't believe I have heard almost anyone talk about when discussing encrypted traffic and data with things such as VPNs or just any encrypted communication systems that propose their main purpose is to hide your data. A lot of these companies, to my knowledge (I could be wrong), don't have open source systems for obvious reasons. How do we as consumers really know that what these companies and entities claim is completely true? How do we know that an encrypted messaging system, VPN, or anything in between is actually private and the company that hosts these systems don't just simply siphon off our data without our knowledge? I just feel like this field is really full of very sketchy entities and there, to my knowledge, isn't really a way to verify their claims privately. Again I could be missing something and completely off the mark but that's why I am asking.
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software[a] where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.[3] This is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright licensing and the source code is usually hidden from the users.
Because every single piece of software and operating system you use is proprietary and You don't check the source code of the software you use and you don't host your own software. like self host your own software server.
Let’s gooo been looking forward to this!
I just assume everybodies fbi now tbh lol
really fascinating video thanks muda
some german convos on the app became big memes in germany because theyre so goofy
These people don't realize the only safe way to communicate is via carrier pigeon, carrier dolphins, or letter in a bottle.
To catch a criminal you must become the criminal
The FBI is a criminal organization already so they’re already there.
“Criminal influencers” is a crazy thing to say
You know who else ran the largest criminal messaging network!?
*MY MOM!*
More like a BlackList episode. Which they actually had. The episode title being, surprise surprise, "Arcane Network". Which was a stupid episode because the task force featured in the show didn't know the network was actually an FBI project.
I'm not weeping for criminals, but it's a bit messed up that law enforcement were just allowed to shut that other service down like that. That's the government effectively saying 'you have no right to privacy.'
What other service down. You mean the leaders of the other services that were criminals themselves? Lmao wth is your logic?
I honestly have just got used to the snooping, but I find it annoying that I can't buy a novelty poop knife off amazon (i blame justin whang ) without them thinking I waste my money on complete garbage, now I get advertised crap.
“Hello CIA.. I mean Customer service.”
Muta giving a shout out to Hugh Jeffreys brought a smile to my face :)
Some Ordinary Gamer : The FBI ran the largest honeypot sting-ops, I won't be complaining about scumbags facing prison time.
Some Ordinary Batman : But causing small harm still outweighs the good, you shouldn't become a criminal to stop criminals.
Me : watching mutha playing the bad-cop and bat-cop all by him-self ... : O
I think this is a great way to catch criminals. I hope they do more of that and don't use backdoors/vulnerabilities of things normal citizen/businesses use. Such backdoors/vulnerabilities should be reported asap and not be used for years by the gov to catch someone and risk something like ip-theft.
re: the fbi "sitting around and letting crime happen a while"... eh. investigation gotta happen somehow, and this appears to have been the best viable option, since the authorities aren't clairvoyant. yeah, some messed up things happened, but it was kept much lower than if the gangs were to have gotten away with it
it shouldnt have been a viable option since it's illegal
Bless your day Brother
13:30. im sure those charges aren't bunk to destroy another privacy platform.
i lierally thought of telegram when i saw the title of the video :')
Does this mean the FBI gets charged for aiding in all of the crimes?
Dutch law enforcement and customs have massive private messaging networks. It’s crazy
Internet conversations should be treated like mail is.
Depending on where the mail is from and if anything was detected inside, mail frequently gets searched. You know, because of the illegality of mailing drugs and firearms.
@Wicked_Knight correspondence between 2 individuals is highly protected under law. They can't just search your mail for the words you type. Also legal to mail guns if you do it right.
@graye2799 you go do that then... you don't need to believe me or anyone. Tho I'd love to see this law you speak of because I promise you it's pertaining civilians not the federal government putts
@@Wicked_Knight If you do the proper paperwork, you can mail guns.
@@graye2799 Again, DO IT.
bro can somebody talk to youtube this ad is throwing me off why have a vpn if I cant even block ads it defeats the entire pourpose.