Multimillion dollar cocaine drops in the middle of the ocean. Producing amphetamine. Assassination plans.
Maximilian Rivkin, more commonly known by his nickname, Microsoft, was a true 21st-century drug kingpin: technologically savvy, globally connected, and capable of smuggling a variety of illegal narcotics from different parts of the world.
But when he tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals called Anøm, he failed to realize that other people, higher up the chain, were in fact taking control of him.
As Anøm became more popular in the criminal underground, the people at the very top of the company watched everything unfold from a set of desks in San Diego. The FBI wasn't just intercepting its messages. The FBI was secretly managing the whole company.
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