"On its glitzy website, the 'AN0M' phone looks like any new tech innovation with sleek black lines, 'invite only' exclusivity and a pledge to 'enforce your right to privacy'.
But its best feature - and for most of its users, the worst - wasn't promoted in its marketing material.
The phone, which supposedly allowed encrypted communications safe from the eyes of the law, was actually a cunning trap laid for a who's who of organised crime.
The Australian Federal Police last year revealed a breathtaking three-year tech ploy which led to 4,000 police executing 525 search warrants.
Senior bikies and mafia figures were tricked into buying hi-tech phones that would supposedly let them messages one another, free of police snooping.
But the AN0M phones were actually designed by the FBI and allowed Australian police to read the texts of organised crime figures.
Police watched in real time as alleged crooks spilled their secrets to one another on their own app."
"On its glitzy website, the 'AN0M' phone looks like any new tech innovation with sleek black lines, 'invite only' exclusivity and a pledge to 'enforce your right to privacy'.
But its best feature - and for most of its users, the worst - wasn't promoted in its marketing material.
The phone, which supposedly allowed encrypted communications safe from the eyes of the law, was actually a cunning trap laid for a who's who of organised crime.
The Australian Federal Police last year revealed a breathtaking three-year tech ploy which led to 4,000 police executing 525 search warrants.
Senior bikies and mafia figures were tricked into buying hi-tech phones that would supposedly let them messages one another, free of police snooping.
But the AN0M phones were actually designed by the FBI and allowed Australian police to read the texts of organised crime figures.
Police watched in real time as alleged crooks spilled their secrets to one another on their own app."
Meanwhile, Americans just load down the FBI app and upload pictures of their children...
load down?
.... download!
Yeah, not sure what happened there. Kek.
The AFP Missed the biggest mafia though . Parliament
It would never do to allow the 'Ndrangheta Mafia to interfere with the C_A's main business!
Whoa!