all InfoSec news
Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
Jan. 13, 2022, 3:35 p.m. | Bruce Schneier
Security Boulevard securityboulevard.com
Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation.
New documents received by Motherboard show that over 100 of those phones were shipped to users in the US, far more than previously believed.
What’s most interesting to me about this new information is how the US used the Australians to get around domestic spying laws:
For legal reasons, the FBI did not …
bypass cyberespionage cyberlaw espionage fbi law enforcement privacy restrictions surveillance us
More from securityboulevard.com / Security Boulevard
Jobs in InfoSec / Cybersecurity
SOC 2 Manager, Audit and Certification
@ Deloitte | US and CA Multiple Locations
Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer, Security
@ Google | Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Assoc Eng Equipment Engineering
@ GlobalFoundries | SGP - Woodlands
Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
@ Flexport | Bellevue, WA; San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer III, Google Cloud Security and Privacy
@ Google | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Software Engineering Manager II, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Security and Privacy
@ Google | San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA