Dark wire The incredible true story of the largest sting operation ever
Book - 2024
"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"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Informational works
- Published
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- viii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781541702691
- Chapter 1. ODOG
- Chapter 2. The First Window
- Chapter 3. Boxes of Phantoms
- Chapter 4. The Facebook Gangster
- Chapter 5. Ramos
- Chapter 6. Operation Safecracking
- Chapter 7. Face-to-Face
- Chapter 8. The Capturing of Vincent Ramos
- Chapter 9. Vacuum
- Chapter 10. Anom
- Chapter 11. Roll Out
- Chapter 12. Hoops
- Chapter 13. Batman
- Chapter 14. Kings Cross
- Chapter 15. Microsoft
- Chapter 16. Encrochat
- Chapter 17. "We Move Anom Like We Move Kilos"
- Chapter 18. "Let's Make Millions"
- Chapter 19. Wasta
- Chapter 20. The Bridge
- Chapter 21. A Cottage Industry
- Chapter 22. The Raid
- Chapter 23. Metallic Maze
- Chapter 24. Hawala
- Chapter 25. Black Boxes
- Chapter 26. Juggernaut
- Chapter 27. Squeezed
- Chapter 28. Green Light
- Chapter 29. Hydra
- Chapter 30. Mancuso Luck
- Chapter 31. Dominoes
- Chapter 32. Reveal
- Epilogue
- A Note on Sourcing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
Review by Kirkus Book Review