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FBI Phone Hack May Have Monitored Americans in Operation Trojan Shield
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2022
by Jayson Hawkins
published in Criminal Legal News
October, 2022, page 47
Filed under:
Cell-Phone Location/Tracking Data.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jayson Hawkins
The tale reads like a Hollywood version of undercover police work, but Operation Trojan Shield really happened. The FBI was monitoring encrypted traffic on the “black devices” favored by criminals as soon as they came out of the box. Now, new questions are being asked …
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