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Government to Name ‘Key Witness’ Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom

A lawyer has pushed to learn the identity of the person who first created Anom, which the FBI used to read tens of millions of messages sent by organized criminals. The confidential human source may testify in court, too.

“Given the CHS’s central role in the investigation and relevance to the prosecution, the government is obligated to provide his identity and particularized information about him,” the motion to compel discovery, filed by defense attorney Patrick M. Griffin in November, reads. They could put a backdoor into Anom to read all of its users’ messages, and once criminals started using the devices, observe and disrupt drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, public corruption, and assassinations all over the globe. Dmitrienko is informed and believes the government secured a private jet to deliver a large shipment of Anom phones from the United States to Western Europe to fulfill demand it created after shutting down the Sky system of encrypted devices.

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