[ 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)
But, at the same time this was using something that fooled people into believing their privacy was safe.
This should continue to be a wake-up call to everyone that governments do create things with the express purpose of gathering as much data on people as possible, under the guise of protecting it.
This. Just because the collected data was for the good doesn’t mean that it’s good to be collecting our data.
Right, their abilities are outrageous. I recall reading a book called Spooky 8, I think he was former Delta, did black ops for the CIA in Central America. Back then, even late 80s, early 90s he was saying the NSA was listening to ALL electronic communications. They've only gotten better and data storage is much cheaper now.
Not only is data storage much cheaper, everything is miniaturized.
In a very small m.2 drive that is like, 4-7 inches in length and 1-2 in width (too lazy off hand to actually go check) you could get terabytes of data storage whereas a megabyte was a massive cabinet back then.
More expensive than a hard drive, maybe. But easier to hide a datafarm while spending billions of dollars stashed away from the governments' pet projects than ever.
NSA is the white hats tho
Only a few of them. The people running it. Down lower there are lots of traitors, it's why they asked Trump to run, the last org being run at the TOP by white hats, was NSA.
They're HEAVILY criminalized below. Just like the FBI would be today if someone Trump could trust was it's head. Down below, SATURATED criminality.
Exactly. I marvel at anyone assuming that everything we put on an electronic device isn't known. We have to assume the literal opposite. It's just astonishing that an organization that's successfully built itself up over however long made that mistake.
me too i was laughing the whole time i was reading the article