No one was better positioned to tell the tale of the largest sting operation in world history than veteran tech reporter Joseph Cox, and tell it he did, in *Dark Wire,* released today:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/
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Dark Wire
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 bot...Hachette Book Group
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But after a particularly spectacular bust landed one of the top crimephone sales reps in the FBI's power, they got a genuinely weird idea: *why not start their own crimephone company*?
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They would tap into the network of crimephone distributors around the world, not telling them who they were selling for - nor that every one of these phones had a back-door that allowed law-enforcement to access every single message, photo and file.
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That's *one* of the startup stories in Cox's book. The other one is the *crime* startup, the one that the hapless criminal syndicates that sign up to distribute Anom devices find themselves in the middle of.
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The obvious difference is that they are involved in global criminal conspiracies. They have to both grow *and* remain hidden.
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But even though Anom didn't triumph over crime, *Dark Wire* is a triumph. The book's out today, and there will shortly be a Netflix adaptation based on it, directed by Jason Bateman:
https://deadline.com/2022/09/jason-bateman-netflix-21-laps-dark-wire-surveillance-gangs-movie-1235130444/
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