Cracking the Code: Law Enforcement and Encrypted Crime

This chapter reveals the arrest of a CEO supplying encrypted phones to criminals, highlighting a complicated relationship between law enforcement and tech developers. It discusses a collaborative effort to develop a phone network for criminal use that may expose organized crime, while also delving into the moral hazards and public corruption entwined in the drug trade. The narrative underscores the chilling normalization of violence within online communities and the legal challenges faced by the FBI in monitoring threats posed by encrypted communications.