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Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of\xa0404 Media. His new book is\xa0Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.\n\u201cIn the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to spend all day talking to drug traffickers. I will be mentally and physically exhausted. So I will doggedly pursue the story right now while I can.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@josephfcox\n\nCox's\xa0404 Media\xa0archive\n\nCox's\xa0Vice\xa0archive\n\n\nDark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever\xa0(PublicAffairs \u2022 2024)\n\n08:00\xa0"FBI\u2019s Encrypted Phone Platform Infiltrated Hundreds of Criminal Syndicates; Result is Massive Worldwide Takedown"\xa0(U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, Southern District of California \u2022 Jun 2021)\n\n10:00\xa0Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World\xa0(Bradley Hope and Tom Wright \u2022 Hachette \u2022 2018)\n\n19:00\xa0"Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI"\xa0(404 Media \u2022 Sep 2023)\n\n38:00\xa0"Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs on Silk Road\u2019s Black Market"\xa0(Andy Greenberg \u2022 Forbes \u2022 Sep 2013)\n\n41:00\xa0"Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years"\xa0(Motherboard \u2022 Feb 2019)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices