{"id":9231,"date":"2025-07-29T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:38:36","slug":"how-the-fbi-got-everything-it-wanted-re-air-lock-and-code-s06e15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zero.redgem.net\/?p=9231","title":{"rendered":"How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Security Update News<\/h2>\n<h3>Update Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Title<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Update ID<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">MALWAREBYTES:7C1BC3E86EE1D162ACC76EE35C41AC7B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Type<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">malwarebytes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Published<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-07-29T15:38:33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Last Updated<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-07-29T15:38:33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Security Impact<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Severity<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; color: #666666; font-weight: bold;\">NONE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Update Details<\/h3>\n<div style=\"; padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n_This week on the Lock and Code podcast\u2026_<\/p>\n<p>For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government secretly broke into people\u2019s encrypted communications.<\/p>\n<p>The weird thing, though, is that, in 2018, it already happened. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>US intelligence agencies, including the FBI and NSA, have long sought what is called a \u201cbackdoor\u201d into the secure and private messages that are traded through platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, and Apple\u2019s Messages. These applications all provide what is called \u201cend-to-end encryption,\u201d and while the technology guarantees confidentiality for journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents, and everyday people across the world, it also, according to the US government, provides cover for criminals.<\/p>\n<p>But to access any single criminal or criminal suspect&#8217;s encrypted messages would require an entire reworking of the technology itself, opening up not just one person&#8217;s communications to surveillance, but everyone&#8217;s. This longstanding struggle is commonly referred to as The Crypto Wars, and it dates back to the 1950s during the Cold War, when the US government created export control regulations to protect encryption technology from reaching outside countries.<\/p>\n<p>But several years ago, the high stakes in these Crypto Wars became somewhat theoretical, as the FBI gained access to the communications and whereabouts of hundreds of suspected criminals, and they did it without &#8220;breaking&#8221; any encryption whatsover.<\/p>\n<p>It all happened with the help of Anom, a budding company behind an allegedly \u201csecure\u201d phone that promised users a bevy of secretive technological features, like end-to-end encrypted messaging, remote data wiping, secure storage vaults, and even voice scrambling. But, unbeknownst to Anom\u2019s users, the entire company was a front for law enforcement. On Anom phones, every message, every photo, every piece of incriminating evidence, and every order to kill someone, was collected and delivered, in full view, to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we revisit a 2024 interview with 404 Media cofounder and investigative reporter Joseph Cox about the wild, true story of Anom. How did it work, was it \u201clegal,\u201d where did the FBI learn to run a tech startup, and why, amidst decades of debate, are some people ignoring the one real-life example of global forces successfully installing a backdoor into a company?<\/p>\n<p>> The public\u2026and law enforcement, as well, [have] had to speculate about what a backdoor in a tech product would actually look like. Well, here\u2019s the answer. This is literally what happens when there is a backdoor, and I find it crazy that not more people are paying attention to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in today to listen to the full conversation. <\/p>\n<p>_Show notes and credits:_  <\/p>\n<p>Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  <br \/>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  <br \/>http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/  <br \/>Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>**Listen up\u2014Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.**<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium for Lock and Code listeners.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/how-the-fbi-got-everything-it-wanted-re-air-lock-and-code-s06e15\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px;\">View Advisory Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Update News Update Information Title How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15) Update ID MALWAREBYTES:7C1BC3E86EE1D162ACC76EE35C41AC7B Type malwarebytes Published 2025-07-29T15:38:33&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,8,12,115,13,33,7,11,5],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category_news","tag-cve","tag-cvss","tag-exploit","tag-malwarebytes","tag-news","tag-none","tag-security","tag-tapic","tag-vulnerability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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