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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by carnagecity786 on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:10PM (#26757704)
>FBI agents found in late January from another source Pendley contacted using the Signal encrypted messaging app that he was planning to use C-4 plastic explosives to attack Amazon's data centers in an attempt to kill "70% of the internet."

How did they discover this? I thought signal was e2e encrypted?

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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by rasz on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:50AM (#26759025)
FBI was on the other end of that e2e link trying to sell him the explosives, targets and motives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bronx_terrorism_plot
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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by poundofshrimp on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:13PM (#26757726)
It is. The source must have reported the convo.
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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by thrower123 on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:13PM (#26757725)
It's easy when you're one of the ends
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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by xxpor on Saturday April 10, 2021 @09:12AM (#26761240)
The vast majority of criminals' threat models are way out of whack. They think they need to use signal so the NSA can't vacuum up their data, while completely ignoring the threat that the other side of the convo is a fed already.
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Re:FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS b... by bmiller2 on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:13PM (#26757720)
Own/compel one of the ends.
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