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by youniverse 1269 days ago
Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me.

The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!

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The stuxnet one blew my mind. All these US departments coming together secretly to knee-cap Iran’s nuclear program. And the irony being that the worm was so good, it leaked into the outside world and wreaked havoc. Only when a malware specialist looked at the code, did he see the sophistication and the multiple zero-days exploits used. The journalist who uncovered all of this rightfully won the Pulitzer.
Truly amazing event and it makes me wonder what cyber-warfare occurs these days or was not made public in the past.
Darknet Diaries: XBox Underground. It was very fascinating, nothing short of a thriller movie, the way it plays out from simple desire to hack into the realm of criminal seems almost unreal.