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Intelligence 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
by overfeed 2y ago
Intelligence 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.