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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, one of the largest global law enforcement operations took place. It was all thanks to an encrypted phone service known as Anom, which was secretly run by the FBI. 


The program was a wild success. But did the agency take it too far? 


Guest: Joseph Cox, investigative reporter for 404 media and author of “Dark Wire, the Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever”


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As the sun rose on the morning of June 8th 2021, one of the single largest law enforcement operations in history began.

0:40.0

It starts in Australia and they're breaking down doors, they're arresting bikers, drug

0:47.2

traffickers, all of these sorts of people. That's reporter Joseph Cox, author of the new book Darkwire. Police arrested

0:57.8

more than 800 people in 16 countries in a series of raids that followed the path of the early morning sun.

1:05.0

Then the arrests move over as the sun moves to Europe and they do the same thing there

1:12.2

they're arresting all of these weapons smugglers

1:15.0

and hitmen and more drug traffickers as well. Until eventually the sun moves to the West Coast to

1:21.7

San Diego and that's where the FBI and the US Attorney's

1:25.7

Office for Southern District of California reveals what is behind all of these arrests. This investigation called Operation Trojan Shield

1:35.0

shined a light into the shadowy industry of hardened

1:39.0

encrypted devices.

1:41.0

For the first time, the FBI developed and operated its own hardened

1:46.2

encrypted device company called Anam, A N-O-M. O. M. M.

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