Criminals trusted an encrypted messaging app. The FBI controlled the other side of it.

Joseph Cox turns a technological operation into a story about trust, secrecy and surveillance. The useful question extends beyond the cleverness of a trap: what makes a supposedly secure system credible to its users? Choose this for investigative nonfiction about the point where criminal networks and digital infrastructure meet.

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For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.