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Dark Wire The True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever Joseph Cox 2024
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    New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
    Signed
    No
    Ex Libris
    No
    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Personalized
    No
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United States
    Inscribed
    No
    Vintage
    No
    ISBN
    9781541702691
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Public Affairs
    ISBN-10
    1541702697
    ISBN-13
    9781541702691
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    25063178226

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Dark Wire : the Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
    Number of Pages
    352 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Security / Online Safety & Privacy, Sociology / General, Law Enforcement
    Publication Year
    2024
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Political Science, Computers, Social Science
    Author
    Joseph Cox
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.3 in
    Item Weight
    20 oz
    Item Length
    9.3 in
    Item Width
    6.1 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2023-044541
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Reviews
    "One of the best true crime thrillers I've read in years. With its tremendously flawed and persistent characters and crazy plot, it felt instantly like a television show while also illuminating the way the shadowy underworld uses encrypted and special phones."-- Bradley Hope, co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil, "[Cox] swings back and forth between the activities of the white hats and the black hats in the manner of a good crime thriller."-- The Wall Street Journal, "This extraordinary story highlights the devious lengths to which law enforcement agencies will go to ensnare criminals. But it also raises the question: did they go to far?"-- Financial Times, "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, "[Cox] swings back and forth between the activities of the white hats and the black hats in the manner of a good crime thriller."-- Wall Street Journal
    Dewey Decimal
    363.232
    Synopsis
    This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals? how the criminal underworld has become a globalized 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 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., Written "in the manner of a good crime thriller" ( The Wall Street Journal ), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the world 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., This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals? how the criminal underworld has become a globalized 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 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.
    LC Classification Number
    HV8080.U5C58 2024

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