Jack Rhysider on Odysee

In this episode we follow up with Gabby and Justin from Episode 59 - two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong, and what happened in the aftermath.

Full list of sources on the show page: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/179/

Attribution:

Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider - https://twitter.com/jackrhysider

Episode artwork by odibagas - https://99designs.com/profiles/2589930

Mixing by Proximity Sound - https://proximitysound.com/

Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder - https://www.breakmastercylinder.com/ Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp - https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/track/darknet-diaries-theme or listen to it on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3P5CCxXNuUSQldH0GA5ZUy?si=eirhXEyFQaKNf-vdfmb8Jg
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Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn't feel like he was being listened to enough. What do you do when the company you work for isn't securing their software up to your standards? Well, he thought he needed to teach them a lesson, but in the end, he learned an even bigger lesson.

Full list of sources on the show page: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/178/

Attribution:

Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider - https://twitter.com/jackrhysider

Researched and Written by Laura Woods.

Assembled by Tristan Ledger - https://x.com/tledgerEN

Sound Design by Andrew Meriwether - https://www.andrewmeriwether.com/

Episode artwork by odibagas - https://99designs.com/profiles/2589930

Mixing by Proximity Sound - https://proximitysound.com/

Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder - https://www.breakmastercylinder.com/
Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp - https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/track/darknet-diaries-theme or listen to it on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3P5CCxXNuUSQldH0GA5ZUy?si=eirhXEyFQaKNf-vdfmb8Jg
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This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he started a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when he spree went one step too far.

Attribution

Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider - https://twitter.com/jackrhysider

Written by Nate Nelson

Assembled by Tristan Ledger

Sound Design by Garrett Tiedemann - http://www.cynarpictures.com

Episode artwork by odibagas - https://99designs.com/profiles/2589930

Mixing by Proximity Sound - https://proximitysound.com/

Video production by Matt Silverman - https://www.camerashymedia.com/

Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder - https://www.breakmastercylinder.com/ Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp -https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/track/darknet-diaries-theme or listen to it on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3P5CCxXNuUSQldH0GA5ZUy

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/177/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law.

Learn more about Nicks work at [calyxinstitute.org](calyxinstitute.org) and [phreeli.com](phreeli.com).

Check out Cindy’s book Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.

### Sources

* https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/11/gagged_for_6_years_nick_merrill
* https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/u-s-nicholas-merrill-v-loretta-e-lynch-14-cv-9763-vm/
* https://clearinghouse.net/case/12966/
* https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/dec/06/fbi-national-security-letter-gag-order-nick-merrill
* https://www.aclu.org/documents/national-security-letters
* https://www.eff.org/cases/re-matter-2011-national-security-letter
* Cindy’s Book: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance


### Attribution

Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.

Assembled by Tristan Ledger.

Episode artwork by odibagas.

Mixing by Proximity Sound.

Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/##/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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It started with a fake car listing on eBay.

What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea.

This is the story of Bayrob and the three men from Romanian who were behind it. And the long, strange road that led American investigators to their door.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/175/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to defend their customers and firewalls.

Was it ethical? Was it effective? They disrupted nine zero-day attacks, exposed who was hacking them, and forced the hackers to change tactics. But at what cost?

You have to listen to one of the most audacious corporate cyber defenses ever conducted.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/174/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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Alberto came to the U.S. for a better future. So when someone offered him the chance to make more money in one night than he'd see in a lifetime, he took it.

But this hustle was part of an elaborate bank fraud scheme. As he collected cash from every ATM in New York City, the Secret Service collected info on one of the biggest bank heists ever.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/173/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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When threat researcher D3ada55 noticed her dad's TV streaming box was sending alarming amounts of traffic to China, she locked it in a room with a few Raspberry Pis and studied it. What she found shook her to the core. The pirated TV device was not only sniffing everything on her home network, but attempting to impersonate those devices as well.

And when she dug deeper into who made these "SuperBoxes," she uncovered an insidious global threat that preys on Americans' deep obsession with get-rich-quick schemes, and may even be the Trojan horse that takes down the U.S. government someday.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172 for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.

#hackers #superbox #D3ada55
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Andrew Batey got really good at sending fake traffic to up-and-coming musicians. But his Black Hat marketing uncovered a much darker flaw in streaming services like Spotify and iTunes — one that changed his business and music streaming forever.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/171/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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The hacker magazine "Phrack" debuted in 1985 across various BBS systems. Its purpose was to bring phone phreakers and computer hackers together into one knowledge sharing community. Over the next 40 years, the magazine became incredibly influential, changed ownership multiple times, disappeared, started a hacker war, and re-emerged many times.

Its pages - both digital and printed - have launched thousands of cybersecurity careers, companies, and communities. Its current and former editors share a few of the war stories, and how Phrack was reborn at DEF CON 2025.

Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/170/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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