Dark Wire
The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
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Narrated by:
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Peter Ganim
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By:
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Joseph Cox
About this listen
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 both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone.
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.
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©2024 Joseph Cox (P)2024 PublicAffairsCritic Reviews
"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
"A jaw-dropping page turner that truly terrified me. The story of how the FBI subverted an encrypted messaging program should send chills down the spine of anyone who cares about privacy and a free society."—Julia Angwin, contributing writer at the New York Times and author of the bestselling book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
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- Anonymous User
- 30-07-2024
Captivating and thought provoking
A fascinating exploration of organised crime, technology, encryption and privacy. I could definitely recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-2024
The Outstanding Groundwork Of The Author
What A Story !! If It Wasn't Real It's Would Be A Hell Of A Story Of Fiction !!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-07-2024
Such a fascinating story, but….
Didn’t like the narrator at all. I really struggled with his cadence, made it quite difficult to get through
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- Denis Shishin
- 08-09-2024
Real story worth making a movie
Now I understand better Durov's arrest. Details of this story are hilarious. My best read in 2024
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- Will Scates Frances
- 27-07-2024
An entertaining account of an underappreciated story
While true crime as a popular genre focuses on salacious and grim stories of serial killing, this book, built upon immense labour and appreciation of complexity, is a far better option for that style of story.
It is a better option because it isn't confined by that genre, and even as it fascinates and explains it draws the reader to look beyond the immediate story to its implications and causes.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-09-2024
How far police will go
The true story in detail, happy to see iyick busted along with his buddy's
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- Nichols
- 07-06-2024
Very interesting story about Anom
If you followed this when it occurred it’s very interesting to hear it all as a single narrative.
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- 07-06-2024
A bit repetitive
It was ok. The author seemsbto have a repeative writing style which is almost formulaic.
How many times does the reader need to be told the same thing about Anom?
Each time delivered by the voice actor as if it was a cheesy American accented advert. ..... *in an over the top smooth male American accent*. "..... only with Anom!"
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- Anonymous User
- 05-06-2024
Scattered story line, different to follow
Nothing in this book that isn’t in the papers. The story was slow and timeline jumped all over the place. Was difficult to follow. I reduced the rating an additional star as the narrator made it even worse.
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- Frustrated
- 21-12-2024
Disappointing
You'd think Anom was just an FBI sting to get a mid-level guy in Sweden. It was so much more, in many more counties and bigger fish were caught
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