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Maybe I'm dumb. Why would a user who bought a phone that turned out to be an Anom device need their identity protected from 'retaliation'? To be clear: I'm per
by Multicomp 5y ago
Maybe I'm dumb. Why would a user who bought a phone that turned out to be an Anom device need their identity protected from 'retaliation'?
To be clear: I'm perfectly happy for them to be anonymous for any reason or no reason. I'm specifically wondering who theoretically would want to retaliate against someone purchasing said devices and why. First sale doctrine still applies even to known honeypotted devices, right?
- Miner49er 5y agoMaybe the FBI? They've been known to assassinate people.
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoI can't see the FBI actually killing someone for passing on a used phone. That's a lot of risk for zero benefit. I can see just generally wanting to stay off their radar, though. Even law-abiding folks can get arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you don't want someone to see "passed an FBI-tapped phone to a tech media site" in your file. Or maybe their work requires a security clearance, that could hurt you there.
- Miner49er 5y agoYeah, I didn't mean that they would kill someone over this, just was giving an example of what they are capable of.
- kube-system 5y agoI'm guessing that the first person who owned the phone could potentially be a character who doesn't want global attention on their burner phone.
- brewdad 5y agoThat's why they make hammers. For the use case of needing to ensure your burner phone never draws global attention.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago"They said they contacted the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in case the phone or the person who sold it was of interest to them" Seems enough reason to me to not want your name plastered all over the internet.