• The FBI's honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report [telecom]

    From Monty Solomon@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 31 14:05:19 2021
    FBI honeypot phones are now public - and showing up on the secondary market.

    By RON AMADEO

    Last month, authorities disclosed that the FBI and Australian Federal
    Police secretly operated an "encrypted device company" called "Anom."
    The company sold 12,000 smartphones to criminal syndicates around the
    world. These were pitched as secure devices but were actually honeypot
    devices that routed all messages to an FBI-owned server. The
    disclosure was light on details, but now that it's public, Anom phones
    are being unloaded on the secondary market. That means us normal
    people are finally getting a look at them, starting with this Vice
    article detailing one of the devices. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/how-the-fbi-weaponized-android-modding-with-anom-devices/

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