What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
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🗓️ 16 June 2024
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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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| 0:57.0 | As the sun rose on the morning of June 8th 2021, one of the single largest law enforcement operations in history began. |
| 1:11.0 | It starts in Australia and they're breaking down doors. They're arresting |
| 1:16.8 | bikers, drug traffickers, all of these sorts of people. That's reporter Joseph Cox, author of the new book Darkwire. |
| 1:28.0 | Police arrested more than 800 people in 16 countries in a series of raids that followed the path of the early morning sun. |
| 1:36.0 | Then the arrests move over as the sun moves to Europe and they do the same thing there. They're arresting all of these |
| 1:44.4 | weapons smugglers and hitmen and more drug traffickers as well. Until eventually the |
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