XDA member unknowingly bought a Pixel phone with an FBI backdoor https://t.co/FabJsnJwez

— XDA (@xdadevelopers) July 8, 2021

criminals orgs are stupid they keep buying encrypted android phones from the fbi shell companies, invest in some real opsec staff ya dummies https://t.co/FDVoLpL5NN

— koush (@koush) July 9, 2021

Scoop: we obtained the phone the FBI secretly backdoored and then sold to criminals to intercept their encrypted chat messages. A truly bizarre device, with PIN scrambling, a hidden operating system, and the ANOM messenger hidden in the calculator app https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

We found and bought one of the FBI's encrypted phones it secretly sold to criminals in a massive international honeypot. Amazing what you can find on sites like Craigslist. Here's our review!https://t.co/KoNn69VAVl

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) July 8, 2021

"We can't just run a good investigation; we have to run a good company" https://t.co/YrjG47bsfQ
Fascinating.

— Eghosa Omoigui (@EghosaO) July 10, 2021

The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report | Ars Technica https://t.co/vyBoqrmWzD

— Rodney Howard-Browne (@rhowardbrowne) July 9, 2021

Here's the phone that the FBI backdoored and sold to criminals.

-Runs "ArcaneOS"
-Regular apps (Tinder, IG, FB) don't work.
-Unlocking it with different PIN boots bare-bones version with Calculator app, which is actually the FBI-backdoored chat app.https://t.co/axcMNyWLUJ pic.twitter.com/bhJ6pmUgXa

— Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb) July 8, 2021

How the FBI weaponized Android modding with “Anom” devices https://t.co/y4eY4fo1nt

— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) July 9, 2021

PhoneArena: FBI used cheap Google Pixels as gangbusting Anom phone honeypots.https://t.co/HskgQseJso

via @GoogleNews

— Señor Baggins (@barrelrider684) July 9, 2021

Fascinating! @VICE Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one#techradio ? #securityhttps://t.co/uGi42SX3FS pic.twitter.com/xddNkSZMSR

— Marsha Collier (@MarshaCollier) July 10, 2021

we got the hot new phone from the FBI https://t.co/jzFKQAjiVc

— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) July 8, 2021

Of course @motherboard obtained one of the phones the FBI used to intercept criminals' chats, leading to hundreds of arrests. READ THIS IT'S INSANE!!!https://t.co/kXw3WIv68j

— Katie Drummond (@katiedrumm) July 8, 2021

지난 6월 FBI가 가짜 '암호화 메신저' ANOM으로 범죄자를 체포했다는 뉴스가 있었는데, Vice가 이에 사용된 개조된 구글 픽셀 4a 입수. 안드로이드를 개조한 'ArcaneOS'가 설치되어 있으며, 보안 스마트폰이라는 알리바이 위해 PIN번호에 따라 다른 화면을 띄우는 기능 있어. https://t.co/5yERZSNVvA

— 나가토 유키 (@nagato708) July 9, 2021

Then open the calculator app, and there it is: ANOM, the chat app a source developed for the FBI, and the FBI then attached a secret encryption key to all messages so authorities could read the contents. Over 27 million messages intercepted https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/UN3qe5gDnv

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

These ANOM phones are finding their way into the hands of random people because seemingly ANOM users are selling them online. The person I got the phone from panicked when they realized it was an FBI backdoored phone they accidentally bought https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/7E6s9AGDtM

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

It seems some unsuspecting people managed to get hold of ANOM devices while the undercover operation was still ongoing. One person complained about the strange phone in March https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/FHCkS1cVHn

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

Huh. The FBI worked with a company to create "privacy" phones using a forked and compromised version of Android/AOSP running on Pixel devices

Made 800 arrests.

Be paranoidhttps://t.co/shjCCTiEvc

— Ti Kawamoto (@TiKawamoto) July 8, 2021

So you enter another PIN, and now you're in the hidden compartment of the phone. There is only a clock, calculator, and the settings app https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/70LqOISHrI

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

Holy s*** modified versions of @madebygoogle Pixel Phones are popping up online with a Government version of Android that they can use to spy on you. Article: https://t.co/jwlUhK4H5I

— NightcoreSuzuki (@NightcoreSuzuki) July 9, 2021

We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals https://t.co/ZLv9GMdL39 via @vice

— Bart Preneel (@bpreneel1) July 8, 2021

How the FBI weaponized Android modding with “Anom” devices https://t.co/y4eY4fo1nt

— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) July 9, 2021

The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report https://t.co/az7dVN9WpY

— Geeknik’s???Farm (@geeknik) July 10, 2021

The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report https://t.co/OJ3ej58R4G

— c0de517e/AngeloPesce (@kenpex) July 10, 2021

The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report https://t.co/AhWN8SvfdQ #Tech

— Igor Os (@igor_os777) July 10, 2021

FBI 誘騙犯罪集團的特洛伊木馬手機：客製化 ROM，修改過的 Android，以及唬人的安全介面。（The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report | Ars Technica https://t.co/rOf2iVyi63 ）

— Chih-Hao Tsai (@hao520) July 10, 2021

The security settings of the phone are interesting. No ability to turn location services off or on. Various wipe features (wipe device if offline for specific period) etc https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/T0lBL1m2Ef

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021

The PIN scrambling is, novel. Every time you go to enter the PIN, the numbers will be in a different place, potentially stopping shoulder-surfing. Whether this is a meaningful security mechanism is debatable. https://t.co/G3TOuYKK0f pic.twitter.com/zbnjp4G6M2

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 8, 2021