What's the price today? FBI phone app reaped secrets of global drug networks

FBI and law enforcement partners in Australia and elsewhere scooped up and decrypted 27 million messages of drug traffickers, exposing global criminal networks.

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.