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Best Podcast Episodes About Hacking
We've compiled 3 podcast episodes about hacking from Darknet Diaries, Diary of a CEO and distilled each into AI-generated summaries, key takeaways, and actionable insights. Guests like Greg Linares have covered this topic in depth. Each episode is scored by depth of insight — the most information-dense conversations are ranked first so you can skip straight to the best.
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3 Episodes Ranked by Insight Depth
#1
Darknet Diaries
They Hired Me to Steal a Shopping Cart Full of Human DNA 🧬 Darknet Diaries Ep. 160: Greg
- →Greg Linares was arrested at 14 for creating a macro virus in Excel that changed his grades and attendance in high school, making him the youngest person in Arizona arrested for a computer crime [13:42, 16:54].
- →While at cybersecurity company eEye, Linares initially found a 'zero-day' in Microsoft Office 2007 that only triggered with a debugger attached, nearly costing him his job due to company embarrassment after a press release [39:53, 40:58].
#2
Darknet Diaries
These 8 Companies You've Never Heard Of Sell Your Personal Data to the Cops 🚨 Ep. 162: Hieu
- →Hieu Minh Ngo, a Vietnamese hacker, transitioned from stealing internet accounts and credit cards to building a "people search engine" that sold US citizens' personal data to cybercriminals on the clear web [38:54].
- →Hieu gained API access to data broker Court Ventures by impersonating a private investigator, which gave him access to "almost 200 million US identity" records, making over $2.5 million in profit from reselling searches [46:10], [47:11].
#3
Diary of a CEO
CIA CAN HEAR YOUR CONVERSATIONS 🤯
- →The 2017 Vault 7 Revelations exposed "thousands, tens of thousands of pages of documents classified above top secret" detailing CIA hacking capabilities.
- →The CIA possesses the technology to remotely hack smart TVs, turning their speakers into microphones to record conversations even when the TV is off.
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