[ Australia's biggest ever police bust has seen not only seen the arrests of the Who's Who of the global criminal underworld, but yielded an extraordinary haul of 3.77 tonnes of drugs, $45 million in cash, guns, luxury cars, motorbikes and watches.
The country's Federal Police released pictures of the wealth, firepower and even taste in gangster movies of those arrested during sweeping raids across the country, the U.S., Britain and wider Europe after the alleged criminals were covertly monitored for three years using an encrypted communication app called 'AN0M'.
They allegedly used the app, secretly developed by the FBI, to message each other around the world, unaware everything they said and did was being intercepted by FBI special agents and the Australian Federal Police.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9661943/Huge-AFP-bust-sees-bikies-criminals-gangsters-arrested-Australia-wide-raids.html)
It looks good on the surface and it's great to see criminals go.
But read between the lines - should we trust any of the encrpyted services we use now? What's stopping the FBI from tracking services like Wickr and Telegram?
On the flip side is this DS tactics to stop patriots from communicating online after they hear this news?
Few things to think about with this one.
Assume nothing is private, because to a determined force it is most certainly not private.
Why should this stop patriots from communicating? As of right now at least, talking isn't criminal; though I'm sure they're databasing this all and profiling everyone.
They should know they only live because we stand down at the moment.
In time, we will make them all pay.
THIS EXACTLY. We the people are still at-the-ready, biting at the bit ready to get rid of them all ourselves just as we were before Trump called us off on the 6th.
...not to bright huh?
Remember echelon?
'Fraid I'm not sure what you're talking about fren. Care to explain?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=echelon+satellite&t=brave&ia=web
This was merely the CIA taking out a fucking threat to ‘their’ business. Don’t think for a single damned second that your own government is NOT the largest narcotics trafficking org in the world.
If the US govt wanted drugs coming into the country curtailed by 99% it would be so.
I appreciate the sentiment but let's be real.. The CIA doesn't give a sh*t about a little organised crime in the arse end of the world. And I say that as an Australian.
Right
Wasn't it rumored that signal was an FBI network as well? Was that ever proven?
Came here to say the same thing. It’s safe to say signal and similar products are either back doored or purpose build honeypots. Ironically, in this day and age talking on the phone the old fashioned way is probably less compromising
everything is crackable and trackable....PC vs. supercomputer