One drug trafficker texted another that he had a "job" and a proven way to get it done: two kilograms of cocaine from Bogota using the French embassy's protected diplomatic pouch. The pair were straightforward, because they were using the newest, safest mode of communicating: a special-purpose, highly encrypted, messaging-only cellphone called ANOM that operated on a closed network. "They have already got a few packages in," Baris Tukel told buyer Shane Geoffrey May, according to US court documents. As proof, Turkel texted pictures of the pouch bound and stamped "Valise Diplomatique Francaise" and another shot of tightly wrapped drug packs. "They can do it weekly," he wrote. Little did they know that ANOM was produced and distributed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, and every one of their messages - and those of thousands of other criminals around the world - were being copied directly to an FBI server. 27 million messages Others had the same sense of security. They bickered over prices, and explained smuggling strategies. Using ANOM, "Ironman" texted "Real G" on how they could get volumes of cocaine into Hong Kong, where they had no one in customs to shepherd it...
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