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Aug 2024
1h 4m

What's the best phone to do crimes on?

PJ Vogt
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For years, the must-have phone for the discerning drug trafficker or hitman was a brand you may not have heard of: AN0M. Reporter Joseph Cox tells us the story of the AN0M phone, its sudden rise and shocking fall, and the shadowy group behind its invention.

Joseph's new book: Dark Wire.

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