<B>This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals how the criminalunderworld has become a globalized economy in its own right--one that cant be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries.</B><BR/><BR/> Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes--the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organized crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement.<BR/><BR/> Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement partners in Australia and parts of Europe, got a front row seat to the global criminal underworld. They watched drug deals and hits being planned in real time, making arrests where they could without blowing their cover. For a period of years, some<I>one hundred thousand</I>criminals worldwide, includ