What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic)
12/5/20251 hr 3 min
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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