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Hacker And The Fed
- rosnd 4y agoThat link really threw me off, I spent a minute or two clicking on it on autopilot baffled as to why OS X has decided that I really should be using the podcasts app instead of safari.
- swyx 4y agoseriously, Apple's weird obsession with hijacking the open web to push their own software is the most anti-user-friendly thing it does dear Apple: you have 27% market share of podcast apps. please recognize that the rest of us like using other apps and stop pushing your defaults so hard.
- blondin 4y agooh my god! is it awful on desktop too? the podcasts app is the most infuriating monstrosity apple has been forcing on us for years now.
- mandmandam 4y agoI see you're not an Apple Music user :/
- girvo 4y agoSee I can tolerate, sometimes even like Apple Music. Podcasts though? Irredeemable.
- Luc 4y agoAnd on iOS I can’t visit the link because it insists on using the Podcasts app, which I have uninstalled. Lame.
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- lake_vincent 4y agoReads like a headline from r/nottheonion
- rosnd 4y agoHow come? Informants like Sabu have to work very closely with their handlers, these guys probably spent countless hours sitting next to each other, working together as some kind of a team. It's not like this is an unique story either, Maksym Popov comes to mind.
- matai_kolila 4y agoYeah, but "podcast" kind of throws it a bit...
- rosnd 4y agoWhich is also a pretty standard career move for federal LEOs.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoA modernized "Former Navy Seal writes tell-all book"?
- rosnd 4y agoYep, all this being a necessary part of establishing an "expert" persona for future TV talking head gigs (and occasional consulting when you find a big enough idiot).
- matai_kolila 4y agoIMO that's hilarious, the visual of these gruff, no nonsense guys who probably spent days saying nothing and now they won't shut up lol...
- lake_vincent 4y ago
- qvrjuec 4y agoA modern day Frank Abagnale. Pretty interesting, excited to find time to listen
- O__________O 4y agoRelated statement by Frank Abagnale: https://www.abagnale.com/Frank-W-Abagnale-Jr-Film-And-Book-Comments.html https://www.abagnale.com/Frank-W-Abagnale-Jr-Film-And-Book-C... https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ _____________ Created a post for topic, since I don’t think most people are aware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196568
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- tunap 4y agoThe answer to "Why the downvotes?": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_cla...
- triyambakam 4y agoThis is a good example of how government and hacker aren't always only good and only bad. It reminds me of the Silk Road agent Shaun Bridges.
- _jal 4y agoI realize that is a stereotypical belief state, but do many people here really hold those beliefs? Having known several folks in both of those camps, my experience is that career choice provides very little information about the chooser's ethics. I will note that both categories have complex relationships with following the law, both personally and professionally.
- lawrenceyan 4y agoLawful evil and chaotic good?
- Waterluvian 4y agoGlobalization made our villages far too large and complex to handle mentally. Many of us seek very simple abstractions such as someone or something being good or evil despite any nuance. I feel this is especially visible in politics.
- mxmilkiib 4y agoytcracker - #antisec 22 Jun 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoDt-MxhHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoDt-MxhHg 871,836 views - 4.48K subscribers - nerdysouth UPDATE 2012.03.09 i may indeed be the first rapper in history to endorse a suspected internet snitch. evidence is somewhat overwhelming for it to be simply a disinformation campaign, but, personally, i believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. i will discuss some of my thoughts on www.ytcracker.com. i sadly will probably retire this song in its current form from my live performances just because i can't in good conscience rap about this until the grieving period has passed and this song becomes vintage and cute again. kind of like jokes about the spanish inquisition being funny now but they weren't very funny in the years circa 1478-1834 (yes, i did wikipedia this). we now return to your regularly scheduled video information. -------------------- 1999 bitch. (click "show more" if you like reading lyrics and want mp3 and stuff) swed. twitters: @lulzsec @realytcracker @beats www.ytcracker.com www.digitalgangster.com download link: http://ytcracker.com/antisec/ytcracke http://ytcracker.com/antisec/ytcracke... - lyrics: - im the defacto leader of a movement screaming "hack the planet" back in 99 hacktivism in its prime globalHell had the .mil rooted alphabet soup and their troops in the suits kid kicking down doors and seizing my equipment blocking all my shipments sitting on their hitlist 0day radical emphatic beat addict and that stab hit i envelope the game call me rabbit - hop to hop i run the internet equivocally bitch i be hit em with the bytestyle symmetry digi g digital gangster repping till im dead steady grep apache logs when im looking for the feds fast forward now the internet anonymous and captains of the lulzboat raise the mast prominent dominant hacks - antisec on that new new dropping tables in mysql like it was some poo poo - pound antisec - pounding through your speakers pound antisec - pound it to the bleachers pound antisec - if youre sitting below deck in the lulzboat salute bitch and show some respect - lulzsec bitch they fold ya hacked sony got that md5 we rocked ya macaroni cook coke crack then boil like a noodle while hbgary stay toast like a streudel rootshell on ya bootstrap - now whos that? botnet mjoin and drop your whole c class see class? it is evident we flossing ion cannon in the proc list ddossing - lean back bitch we be sending an injection magic quotes off JOIN TABLE intersection put it up on pastebin it wont get erased then 20 million hits to your dome like some cavemen ask cnn - you want a interview? send a PRIVMSG to the nickname sabu on irc - man we convening this some 99 throwback shit that im screaming
- jollyllama 4y agoI guess you can profit off of your crimes if you inform on your co-conspirators.
- zmgsabst 4y agoOr just entrap some lonely kids.
- prvit 4y agoWhy is this getting downvoted? That's exactly what Sabu was doing. He and this FBI guy would approach random kids on IRC in order to entice them to join "his" prestigious hacker group. They weren't going after existing criminals, but going out of their way to create new ones. Largely underage children.
- jollyllama 4y agoI wonder if they're still in the justice system (prison/probation/etc.)
- prvit 4y agoNo, Sabu got only 1 year of probation.
- jollyllama 4y agoI was referring to the kids and any other he entrapped/informed on.
- prvit 4y agoProbably not, it's been almost a decade now. Someone might still be on probation. Even Jeremy Hammond is out since 2020, he'd been sentenced to 10 years.
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- ElijahLynn 4y agoWould be nice to see this on Spotify and Google Podcasts too. I searched and it looks like Apple Podcasts only for right now. tldr from this 2 minute intro is that they caught Sabu and said you can have 120+ years in prison or join them... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-hacker-and-the-fed/id1649541362?i=1000582410644 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-hacker-and...
- pickmeimcool 4y agohttps://open.spotify.com/show/4uze2AoxrCv0dRjvElUpTy?si=4lGB4EH5TDqV9x2cKyAJ8w https://open.spotify.com/show/4uze2AoxrCv0dRjvElUpTy?si=4lGB...
- thrill 4y agoGoogle Podcast usually takes a week or so to find the feed.
- rurban 4y agoIsn't Sabu long dead already? I really thought he is, strange. But in 2022 he looks alive and well: https://newsday.co.tt/2022/10/06/hacker-to-deliver-keynote-at-cw-cybersecurity-forum/ https://newsday.co.tt/2022/10/06/hacker-to-deliver-keynote-a...
- prvit 4y ago
- 1B05H1N 4y agoThe guy who ratted on his whole crew?
- danuker 4y agoWould you rat on your colleagues or accept 120 years in jail?
- prvit 4y agoSabu did much more than just rat on his colleagues. If he had just ratted on his colleagues and was apologetic about it, he wouldn't get a fraction of the hate he does.
- danuker 4y agoI rephrase then: would you do something other than what the feds ask you (malice-free compliance), when you have your freedom on the line?
- prvit 4y agoSabu never expressed any regret for his actions, to the contrary. You don't have to be a bad guy to accidentally hit someone with your car while driving. But if you don't feel bad about it afterwards, you're probably a bad guy. If you go out of your way to point and laugh at the person you hit ...
- danuker 4y agoThe way I see it: there is no way an individual can win over an empire. If one is engaging in activities to the detriment of said empire, they must consider the risk of being snuffed at any time, let alone betrayed. See McAfee, Assange, and Snowden. Only Snowden had the OpSec not to get caught - by escaping the influence of the US.
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- omega3 4y agoIn the 2min intro the fed claims he took down Anonymous. Interesting.
- DerekBickerton 4y agoI still see those videos on Youtube with a person in Guy Fawkes mask announcing their plans to take down (DDoS) such and such a service. They're still around, and they're not as cool anymore though. Anyone can make such a video and then slap 'We are legion, we do not forget' etc
- prvit 4y agoAnonymous was never a real thing, there was never any kind of an organisation. It's just a meme.
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- prvit 4y agoThe whole point of the podcast is to tell made up stories in order to boost the child-entrapper Chris Tarbells public speaking career https://www.leadingauthorities.com/uk/speakers/chris-tarbell https://www.leadingauthorities.com/uk/speakers/chris-tarbell
- motohagiography 4y agoIt's a podcast by a rat and a fed. They have nothing to do with hackers.