Cold Secrets Quotes

“Sex trafficking was massive with an estimated between six and eight hundred thousand victims moved across international borders each year. It was the fastest growing industry in the criminal world with profits estimated at over a billion dollars. But the fact it was so prevalent in society today meant it was even more difficult to track specific organizations.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Sex trafficking was massive with an estimated between six and eight hundred thousand victims moved across international borders each year. It was the fastest growing industry in the criminal world with profits estimated at over a billion dollars.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“the darknet lived and breathed on the Tor browser. Tor had been developed and funded by the feds as a secure network for government agencies and dissidents from around the world to use. Tor made it possible to mask your identity and the location of your server. All well and good if you were trying to avoid a stalker, or blog about antigovernment sentiment in a country where intellectual freedom got your throat cut. But not so great when the tables were turned and the feds were trying to catch someone who—for example—was selling sex with kids to pedophiles.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Not just hacking.” It was easy to be dismissive when you didn’t understand the mindset. “And not all hackers are bad.” She shrugged. “It’s not that much different from playing with Legos to start with, although ‘hackers’ are generally more concerned with looking for flaws in a design system than building something from scratch.” They walked out the main door and south along the street. “It often starts when they’re kids trying to figure something out. It’s a game. A puzzle. Even those who do crazy things like try to hack the NSA—they don’t usually believe they can get in.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Not just hacking.” It was easy to be dismissive when you didn’t understand the mindset. “And not all hackers are bad.” She shrugged. “It’s not that much different from playing with Legos to start with, although ‘hackers’ are generally more concerned with looking for flaws in a design system than building something from scratch.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“They slipped into the apartment building when some kind soul held the door for them. Ashley refrained from rolling her eyes at their naivety. People were hardwired to be polite, and it put them in danger every day.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Not everyone agreed with governments spying on their own people. Some manufacturers would rather take the feds to court than appear to cooperate. Personally, Ashley sided with not creating back doors for anyone. Any potential weakness could and would be ferreted out and exploited by some innovative hacker.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Cops often saw cybercrime as a benign act that didn’t really hurt anyone. There was nothing benign in stealing someone’s identity or destroying their credit rating. There was nothing benign in controlling the world’s power grids, banking systems, or economies. Control cyber-technology and you controlled the flow of information for most of the world’s population. And cyber-warfare had already begun. Just ask the Iranians about Stuxnet, or Estonia, Ukraine and Georgia about pissing off the Russians.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“The madam’s lip twitched in annoyance and the girl’s”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“He pulled out a fake driver’s license and she took a picture of it with her cell and handed it back. No way in hell was he leaving this building without that cell phone. “How much?”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“If anyone recognized Lucas Randall, he was a dead man. He knocked on the plain black door and shifted his weight from one foot to the other. The start of a beard sprouted from his grimy cheeks. Motor oil rimmed his fingernails, and the smell of it radiated from his clothes in subtle waves. Even his old scuffed trainers were smeared with grease. He hunched his shoulders and stuffed his hands deep into the pockets of a stained nylon jacket, shivering from the cold.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“That’s damn good work, Agents Randall and Chen,” Sloan said as she came racing back into her office. Icy droplets of sleet spun off her FBI windbreaker as she tossed it on the back of her chair. She ran a hand through wet hair, scooping it back off her face. Her cheeks were ruddy with cold, her expression focused as a laser.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“people who lived or worked close enough to the brothel to regularly use that tower, nor those who caught public transportation that passed through the area. But he figured their regular schedule might help in eliminating people and giving us a smaller pool to sub-analyze.” Lucas nodded, impressed. “It’s better than the entire male population”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“I consider myself an American, not an Asian, not even an Asian-American although people can’t get away from the freaking labels that society needs to pigeonhole us.” There”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Dear God, I hadn’t realized you were an idiot until this exact moment.” He”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Sex trafficking was massive with an estimated 600,000-800,000 victims moved across international borders each year.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“Agent Chen, thanks for your assistance earlier. Any follow up questions regarding that last issue we discussed, feel free to take them up with me at your convenience. Agent Randall. She”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“She was definitely Chinese?” asked Ashley. Because sometimes people, even smart people, made assumptions about where people came from based on their looks. “Correct.”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets

“But Mallory’s fiancé, Alex Parker, bothered Ashley on so many levels she tried to keep her female colleague at a safe distance. “Agent”
― Toni Anderson, Cold Secrets