https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shield-anom-fbi-secret-phone-network
Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals
New court records detail how the FBI turned encrypted phone company 'Anom' into a honeypot for organized crime.
For years the FBI has secretly run an encrypted communications app used by organized crime in order to surreptitiously collect its users' messages and monitor criminals' activity on a massive scale, according to a newly unsealed court document. In all, the elaborate operation netted more than 20 million messages from over 11,800 devices used by suspected criminals…