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Wish I could add 3 laughing faces!
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yes it was a great sting op, but what scares me is that no matter how good something is or how good it was intended, it is ALWAYS corrupted by corporations and gov't and inevitably hurts the ordinary person and their freedoms. Great they caught people but I can't help but wonder how it will be abused.This should amuse you:
The FBI’s encrypted phone sting spied on thousands of criminals worldwide. Why none in the U.S.?
In 2018, a San Diego-led federal sting secretly launched an encrypted communications company. Over the next few years, FBI agents, working with law enforcement partners in Australia, New Zealand an…
Yeah... From a good-guy viewpoint, that was amazing. It took several covert actions to turn the phone into super-encrypted mode but the reality was that it was all a government ploy to catch criminals.
And catch criminals it did.
It violated US evidentiary rules so few Americans were caught up in it - but that was expected from the start. The FBI promptly turned over the data to other countries for them to prosecute.
That's right... The US govt was behind the super encrypted phone used pretty much exclusively by high level criminals, specifically drug dealers. As far as operations go, that one was pretty clever.
I don't/won't let this turn political but this was straight up brilliant.
Good thing you said that. I sometimes get loud!
Just imagine if Stalin or Hitler had this technology.
Here is my opinion that is otherwise generalization but it works just fine for me and turns out to be true sooner or later...Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies
According to 404Media, a company called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers and selling the data to law enforcement, AI companies, and anyone who wants it—so long as they pay in cryptocurrency.
