Bankman-Fried’s Prosecutors Raise New Concerns Over Internet Use

Sam Bankman-Fried, center, departs court in New York, on Jan. 3. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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US prosecutors said their discovery that Sam Bankman-Fried used a virtual private network to access the internet on two recent occasions raises concerns that the FTX co-founder could be hiding his online activities.

The Manhattan judge handling Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud case last week expressed his own concerns that even if the defendant is barred from using encrypted messaging apps like Signal, he could still use old-fashioned secret code to contact witnesses in the case, similar to letters penned by Mary, Queen of Scots, more than 400 years ago.