A special phone, made from top-to-bottom with privacy, hidden apps and encryption to protect your data from prying eyes. Sounds great, right? There's only one problem: It has a secret back door that funnels everything you do to law enforcement.
Privacy journalist Joseph Cox shares the complicated story of how a secret operation to stop drug traffickers and murderers only lead to a cycle of more crime - and a massive invasion of privacy.
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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 the story is crazy
Operation Trojan Shield or Operation Ironside) was a collaboration by law enforcement agencies from several countries, running between 2018 and 2021
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ANOM: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app
the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement partners in Australia and parts of EU, got a front row seat to the global criminal underworld. They watched drug deals and hits being planned in real time, some arrests where made without blowing 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