In this episode we hear EvilMog tell us a story about when he had to troubleshoot networks in Afghanistan. We also get Joe to tell us a penetration test story.
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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.
Transcript
[START OF RECORDING]
JACK: There’s some really incredible scam artists out there, and I mean top-tier ones, and those ones really intrigue me. One of my favorites is a guy named Victor Lustig. [MUSIC] Well, that’s not his real name, but that’s the name he was famous for. This guy was going around scamming people in the early 1900s, and there was one scam he did where he got $32,000 in liberty bonds together and went into a bank to trade them in. The bank offered him $10,000 in cash and some farmland, and he took that deal and signed all the paperwork. But just as he was about to leave, he did some sleight of hand and switched the envelopes, and walked out with the cash and the farmland and the liberty bonds that he walked in with. The bank did not like this and called the cops on him, who caught him in Kansas City. But he convinced them that if they pressed charges, then this story would get out, and it would be terrible for the reputation for the bank. Customers wouldn’t want to use a bank that’s this careless with the deals they make. He was so good at convincing them of this, the bank dropped the charges and gave him $1,000 to not tell anyone and keep the story quiet.