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Dark wire : the incredible true story of the largest sting operation ever / Joseph Cox.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2024Description: viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541702691
  • 1541702697
Subject(s):
Contents:
ODOG -- The first window -- Boxes of phantoms -- The Facebook gangster -- Ramos -- Operation Safecracking -- Face to face -- The capturing of Vincent Ramos -- Vacuum -- Anom -- Roll out -- Hoops -- Batman -- Kings Cross -- Microsoft -- Encrochat -- 'We move Anom like we move kilos' -- 'Lets make millions ' -- Wasta -- The bridge -- A cottage industry -- The raid -- Metallic maze -- Hawala -- Black boxes -- Juggernaut -- Squeezed -- Green light -- Hydra -- Mancuso luck -- Dominos -- Reveal.
Summary: "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 organized 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 one hundred thousand criminals worldwide, including members of South American drug cartels, the Calabrian mafia, and the Chinese Triad, did their business in full view of the officers they were trying to evade. It was a sprawling global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. But a surveillance operation like this couldn't last. It was too dangerous, too ethically fraught, too large. And it all ended in spectacular fashion. Dark Wire is more than the story of this enormous sting operation--it shows the fundamental problems of policing in such a vast and high-speed economy. This is a caper for our modern world, where everyone is connected and no one is completely free"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone.



In 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: it was secretly run by the FBI.



Backdoor access to Anom and a series of related investigations granted American, Australian, and European authorities a front-row seat to the underworld. Tens of thousands of criminals worldwide appeared in full view of the same agents they were trying to evade. International smugglers. Money launderers. Hitmen. A sprawling global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. Officers watched drug shipments and murder plots unfold, making arrests without blowing their cover. But, as the FBI started to lose control of Anom, did the agency go too far?



A painstakingly investigated exposé, Dark Wire reveals the true scale and stakes of this unprecedented operation through the agents and crooks who were there. This fly-on-the-wall thriller is a caper for our modern world, where no one can be sure who is listening in.

"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 organized 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 one hundred thousand criminals worldwide, including members of South American drug cartels, the Calabrian mafia, and the Chinese Triad, did their business in full view of the officers they were trying to evade. It was a sprawling global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. But a surveillance operation like this couldn't last. It was too dangerous, too ethically fraught, too large. And it all ended in spectacular fashion. Dark Wire is more than the story of this enormous sting operation--it shows the fundamental problems of policing in such a vast and high-speed economy. This is a caper for our modern world, where everyone is connected and no one is completely free"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

ODOG -- The first window -- Boxes of phantoms -- The Facebook gangster -- Ramos -- Operation Safecracking -- Face to face -- The capturing of Vincent Ramos -- Vacuum -- Anom -- Roll out -- Hoops -- Batman -- Kings Cross -- Microsoft -- Encrochat -- 'We move Anom like we move kilos' -- 'Lets make millions ' -- Wasta -- The bridge -- A cottage industry -- The raid -- Metallic maze -- Hawala -- Black boxes -- Juggernaut -- Squeezed -- Green light -- Hydra -- Mancuso luck -- Dominos -- Reveal.

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