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I would't put it beyond them to create these kinds of companies, but doing so upfront is a huge gamble if you don't know for sure what is going to take off. It
by sigmoid10 2y ago
I would't put it beyond them to create these kinds of companies, but doing so upfront is a huge gamble if you don't know for sure what is going to take off. It would seem to be much more efficient to just sit and wait until some company becomes well established and then infiltrate them using agents, compromised supply chains or plain and simple warrants combined with gag orders.
- overfeed 2y agoIntelligence networks can manufacturer their own hype, and often, there's no independent company that steps up. I'm sure some of the attempts go bust, but there a couple of first-party Intelligence-community fronts that succeeded https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fbi-s-encrypted-phone-platform-infiltrated-hundreds-criminal-syndicates-result-massive https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fbi-s-encrypted-phone-p...
- sigmoid10 2y agoThis article says it was literally the first operation of its kind and even though it seemingly was quite successful, they only reached a couple thousand users despite aggressively promoting it on the black market and even by using undercover agents. If any intelligence service had the capability of building a 100M+ user app like Protonmail, they would never have to ask congress for money again, because they could basically print it themselves.