Jack Recider

Some crazy things started happening with Anam at this point. It takes more and more 90-degree turns. I'm not even going to get into what happened in Europe or South America or Turkey. I'll simply say that there were a few criminals that loved this Anam phone so much that they tried to purchase ownership of that company.

Some crazy things started happening with Anam at this point. It takes more and more 90-degree turns. I'm not even going to get into what happened in Europe or South America or Turkey. I'll simply say that there were a few criminals that loved this Anam phone so much that they tried to purchase ownership of that company.

and eventually just started calling themselves the CEO of Anam, which when a major underground criminal is saying he's the CEO of Anam, it really legitimizes the phone for other criminals to want to buy it. So the Anam phones were starting to grow wings and take on a life of their own in Europe.

and eventually just started calling themselves the CEO of Anam, which when a major underground criminal is saying he's the CEO of Anam, it really legitimizes the phone for other criminals to want to buy it. So the Anam phones were starting to grow wings and take on a life of their own in Europe.

So I want to shift gears here to the FBI. So I've got a lot of questions about what the FBI is doing here. First of all, FBI handles internal threats to the United States. They're not the CIA, which is doing international investigations. So I don't even understand why the FBI would be looking at foreign messages in the first place.

So I want to shift gears here to the FBI. So I've got a lot of questions about what the FBI is doing here. First of all, FBI handles internal threats to the United States. They're not the CIA, which is doing international investigations. So I don't even understand why the FBI would be looking at foreign messages in the first place.

There's just so many questions I have. At this point, not many phones were in the U.S., so the FBI couldn't really look at U.S. citizens' chats, even if they wanted. But the FBI was heavily involved with Anam. creating this startup, basically, funding it, creating the infrastructure, actively monitoring the messages. And it just makes me wonder, have they solved all the cases in the U.S. already?

There's just so many questions I have. At this point, not many phones were in the U.S., so the FBI couldn't really look at U.S. citizens' chats, even if they wanted. But the FBI was heavily involved with Anam. creating this startup, basically, funding it, creating the infrastructure, actively monitoring the messages. And it just makes me wonder, have they solved all the cases in the U.S. already?

Because to start a tech company and collecting and analyzing and reporting intelligence so that you could give it to other countries...

Because to start a tech company and collecting and analyzing and reporting intelligence so that you could give it to other countries...

That takes a lot of time and resources.

That takes a lot of time and resources.

So whose idea was it to divert FBI resources to focus on stopping crimes in Sweden and Australia?

So whose idea was it to divert FBI resources to focus on stopping crimes in Sweden and Australia?

The FBI's fundamental mandate is to protect and defend the nation from threats. Defend. However, in this story they've gone on the offense in the name of defense. And this difference is worth noticing. I mean, imagine you're defending yourself in some legal battle and you're worried you might lose because of some surprise thing the opposition might bring up.

The FBI's fundamental mandate is to protect and defend the nation from threats. Defend. However, in this story they've gone on the offense in the name of defense. And this difference is worth noticing. I mean, imagine you're defending yourself in some legal battle and you're worried you might lose because of some surprise thing the opposition might bring up.

So to defend yourself better, you decide to break into the other lawyer's office and steal all their notes that they have on the case or hack into their phones and see their chat messages. All so you can better defend yourself? Well, this tactic would be unequivocally unethical. Yet the FBI's strategy here is to penetrate private chats in pursuit of criminal activity.

So to defend yourself better, you decide to break into the other lawyer's office and steal all their notes that they have on the case or hack into their phones and see their chat messages. All so you can better defend yourself? Well, this tactic would be unequivocally unethical. Yet the FBI's strategy here is to penetrate private chats in pursuit of criminal activity.

It's crossing that boundary from passive monitoring to active intrusion. And I think it's important to be aware when that boundary gets crossed because we never see them cross it since it's always done in the shadows.

It's crossing that boundary from passive monitoring to active intrusion. And I think it's important to be aware when that boundary gets crossed because we never see them cross it since it's always done in the shadows.