800 arrests, 40 tons of drugs, and one backdoor. What a phone startup gave the FBI, with Joseph Cox
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Joseph Cox about the FBI's successful backdoor into the phone startup Anom.
[00:40] Intro
[04:18] How did Anom work on the government side?
[07:21] What international government agencies are involved in this operation and why?
[09:52] What could the FBI see happening across Anom phones?
[12:09] So as to not blow their cover, what crimes did the FBI prioritize in acting on?
[14:39] How is this not entrapment? And how did this program get approved?
[18:05] Did any government agencies or leadership push back on the FBI running Anom?
[22:00] How did the FBI make Anom appear legitimate, and how did the business function?
[25:33] Did everyday employees for Anom know that they were actually working for an FBI sting operation?
[28:05] Was the FBI ever concerned that Anom was getting too big?
[31:13] Was running Anom legal, and if it wasn’t, what did the FBI do to make it legal?
[34:58] The FBI gets a crash course in content moderation at scale
[38:23] In many ways, Anom is everything that FBI has ever said it needs to stop crime. Did it, then, work?
[44:12] What was the most surprising thing you learned while reporting?
Show notes and credits:
Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro Music: “Good God” by Wowa (unminus.com)
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