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How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
Cybersecurity journalist Joseph Cox joins Decoder to discuss his new book Dark Wire all about the FBI’s secretive secure phone startup.
Somehow, on top of all that, Joseph also found time to write a new book coming out in June called Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever, and I can’t recommend it enough. In the early mobile era, that gave rise to a niche industry of specialized, secured phones criminals used to conduct their business. The company was called Anom, and for about three years, it gave law enforcement agencies around the world a crystal-clear window into the criminal underworld.
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