Joseph Cox

This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals how the criminal underworld has become a globalised economy in its own right—one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. 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...

The story of how the FBI secretly used an encrypted phone company to infiltrate one of the world's largest crime syndicates, revealing how the underworld has become a globalised economy in its own right—one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. Written "in the manner of a good crime thriller" (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of...