Joseph Cox

So you have the Comacheros, you have the Banditos, the Hells Angels as well, and they're all in a melting pot with their different motivations, different territory.

And in some cases, phantom secure phones were used to plan the hits between these rival groups.

Phantom secure promised to keep criminals' messages outside of the reach of law enforcement.

You didn't have to trust an ordinary mobile phone anymore.

You could buy phantom secure, and you could continue with your drug trafficking without the cops coming and arresting you.

Anom.

Anom presented itself as the next generation of encrypted phone, something like the Royals Royce of the industry.

So even though it was highly secure with encrypted messaging, it also included a bunch of sort of

Additional features will make it look more like an ordinary phone and security benefits as well.

So you would open up the phone and to get to the Anom messaging application itself, you'd actually have to go through the calculator app.

You had to type in two times two and press equals.

The calculator would fade away and then the Anom app would reveal itself.

Oh, that's cool.

Which is a very cool little gadget.

You know, I wish I could do that on my normal phone.

It then had all of this other stuff, like you could send scrambled voice memos.

So even if the cops managed to intercept it, the voice would be all garbled, and they wouldn't be able to tell who was actually talking.

You could also redact images.

So if somebody's face was in there, you could then blur it, and again, the cops get the image, they're actually not going to know who's in there.

and probably most importantly it had this really powerful wipe system where if the phone fell into the wrong hands you know maybe a border cop seized it or another law enforcement official got hold of it you could tell a nom hey quick my phone is in the hands of the cops please wipe the device and they would do that and it would remove all data from the phone of course you know