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Looks like the app’s domain was also seized.

https://www.anom.io/

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Funny how that form is essentially asking users to dox themselves. I wonder how many will take the bait.

My mother-in-law better watch out

Overall, a very clean website source. No trackers in the source at all.

Countries list is interesting. Lists Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Virgin Islands (US). Didn't know PR seceded, thank you FBI for confirming. Lists various French territories. Missing South Sudan. Missing Kosovo. Includes Taiwan. Includes Palestine.

"To determine if your account is associated with an ongoing investigation, please enter any device details below:"

Seems like they're flexing.

It probably directs to a static page saying "YES" because after entering all that information your account will be under investigation for sure ;)

Can someone explain what flag in the top left corner is? There’s probably another non-country flag I missed in there too.

https://www.anom.io/trojan_shield_seal.jpg

Europol: https://www.europol.europa.eu/

The Europol logo.

It’s bizarre, because news reports state that the entire app and monitoring system was created by the FBI and Australian Federal Police.

If it’s their system, why would they need to seize its domain?

The whois shows no updates for 11months:

Updated Date: 2020-07-07T06:01:35.21Z

If they were trying to get criminals to start using it, hosting it on the (seized) website of some reputable criminal organisation might have been helpful?

Love the AFPs effort at branding Operation Ironsides

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