<story><title>A phone the FBI sold to criminals</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiomattei</author><text>Aight, this is some next-level stuff.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I&amp;#x27;d even call it badass. The FBI created a tech startup (even with the .io domain!) and sold devices with a custom Android distribution.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny because you can search for the XDA-Developers thread mentioned in the article, they were pretty shocked to find a phone with modded software and a locked bootloader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bserge</author><text>It is pretty impressive, they made a whole company marketing secure phones, except the devices were wiretapped.&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, it sounds like a pretty decent secure phone, too.&lt;p&gt;Did they hire one of those TV show genius detectives to plan all this?&lt;p&gt;It sure seems more advanced than the usual FBI operations (or maybe we don&amp;#x27;t hear much about the good ones).</text></comment>
<story><title>A phone the FBI sold to criminals</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiomattei</author><text>Aight, this is some next-level stuff.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I&amp;#x27;d even call it badass. The FBI created a tech startup (even with the .io domain!) and sold devices with a custom Android distribution.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny because you can search for the XDA-Developers thread mentioned in the article, they were pretty shocked to find a phone with modded software and a locked bootloader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>34679</author><text>There are few limits to what one can accomplish with legal impunity and other people&amp;#x27;s money.</text></comment>