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163924708 story The FBI operation in which the agency intercepted messages from thousands of encrypted phones around the world was powered by cobbled together code. From a report:
Motherboard has obtained that code and is now publishing sections of it that show how the FBI was able to create its honeypot. The code shows that the messages were secretly duplicated and sent to a "ghost" contact that was hidden from the users' contact lists. This ghost user, in a way, was the FBI and its law enforcement partners, reading over the shoulder of organized criminals as they talked to each other. The FBI ran a phone company called Anom for years and used it to steal tens of millions of messages from Anom users, as part of a scheme known as "Trojan Shield". Anom was sold to over 300 criminal syndicates around the world. More than 1,000 people have been arrested and weapons, cash, narcotics, and luxury cars have been seized. There is a public interest in understanding how law enforcement agencies are tackling the so-called Going Dark problem, where criminals use encryption to keep their communications out of the hands of the authorities.
