"For criminals, by criminals:" How the FBI Tried to Wire Tap the World🎙Darknet Diaries Ep 146: ANOM
Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published Jun 5, 2024 · 1:04:56
The episode briefly mentions CIA's Weeping Angel Samsung TV spyware 0:05 as an intro teaser before exploring its main story: the FBI's secret operation running Anom, an encrypted phone company, to wiretap criminal networks worldwide.
Key Takeaways:
• Weeping Angel exploited Samsung's "Fake Off" mode to keep microphones active while TVs appeared powered down 0:05
• Anom created a ghost contact in every conversation that BCC'd all messages to authorities 10:15
• Anom's creator Afgoo made a deal with the FBI for ~$120,000 while keeping developers unaware they were building surveillance tools 18:30
• FBI's "Hola iBot" system analyzed millions of messages from 12,000 devices across 150 countries using AI-powered summaries 35:45
• Operation Trojan Shield culminated June 7, 2021 with 10,000 police executing coordinated global arrests 55:20
This unprecedented operation raises profound ethical questions about mass surveillance, parallel construction of evidence, and whether law enforcement should facilitate crimes to prevent them.
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JACK: So, I was looking through Wikileaks the
other day as one does, right, and I came across something that I found rather fascinating. There’s
a thing that the CIA developed called Weeping Angel. [MUSIC] So, if you have a Samsung smart TV,
there’s a really odd feature in it; it’s called Fake Off. When the TV is on, you can push Mute,
182, then Power, and the TV appears to turn off, but it doesn’t. Now, these smart TVs often have
a microphone built in so you can give them voice commands, and when the TV is off, the mic isn’t
listening. But when the TV is in Fake Off, the mic is still active. So, what the CIA did was they
developed some kind of spyware for the Samsung smart TV, where it would record the audio from
the mic and store it on the TV. So, I imagine a scenario is that a C…