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Joseph Cox: Dark Wire (Hardcover, 2024, PublicAffairs) 5 stars

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made …

Compelling but lacking anything critical

4 stars

Written like a thriller, Cox covers the rise and fall of Anom, an encrypted phone service run by the FBI.

I do wish that the book had engaged more with any of the actual legal and geopolitical consequences before the last chapter. I also wish that there was more clarity about where the various pieces of information came from, and how he reported on this - I never felt sure exactly what was coming from where.