
Dark Wire
The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
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Narrated by:
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Peter Ganim
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By:
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Joseph Cox
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.
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Critic reviews
"Joseph Cox has written an instant true-crime classic, the inside—very inside it turns out—story of the largest global crime sting in history, a fascinating portrait not just of the frontiers of technology but also how organized crime operates in the 21st century. Filled with stranger-than-fiction gangsters and smugglers, this book is part-Miami Vice, part-Sneakers, and part-Ocean's Eleven. Your eyebrows will be raised in amazement page after page."—Garrett Graff, director of the Cybersecurity Program at The Aspen Institute, bestselling author of Watergate: A New History
"A jaw-dropping page turner that truly terrified me. The story of how the FBI subverted an encrypted messaging program should send chills down the spine of anyone who cares about privacy and a free society."—Julia Angwin, contributing writer at the New York Times and author of the bestselling book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
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I would like to have heard more about the potential privacy issues that some of the foreign governments dealt with on how evidence was obtained.
Great listen but some story points were repetitive
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Great book
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The book begins with very specific character stories but at the end it is about mass numbers and stats. It would be great to learn more personal aspects of the characters, but this being a crime expose I can see that being close to impossible. It would have been possible to look at lesser known, but public info, cases about these issues and how it can impact every day persons lives and not just criminals. Overall averages out to a 5/5.
Overall very good, loses a bit focus, aprubt end
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pacing was as if vm watching a movie
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fantastic story telling
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Good but: A bit too monotone, a bit too long
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Amazing story
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Thought Provoking
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Unbelievable story. Good job to all involved.
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SPECTACULAR STORY AND READER
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