Dark wire : the incredible true story of the largest sting operation in history
Cox, Joseph (Journalist)2024
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Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes - the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organised crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement. Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement partners in Australia and parts of Europe, got a front row seat to the global criminal underworld. They watched drug deals and hits being planned in real time, making arrests where they could without blowing their cover. For a period of years, some 100,000 criminals worldwide, did their business in full view of the officers they were trying to evade. But a surveillance operation like this couldn't last. And it all ended in spectacular fashion.
Main title:
Author:
Cox, Joseph (Journalist), author
Imprint:
New York : PublicAffairs, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781541702691 (hbk)
Dewey class:
363.232
LC class:
HV8080.U5
Local class:
363.232
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3903225