Greg Linares (AKA Laughing Mantis) joins us to tell us about how he became the youngest hacker to be arrested in Arizona.
Follow Greg on Twitter: https://x.com/Laughing_Mantis.
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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: [App beeping] Hey.
DAD: Man, I don’t see you.
JACK: Yeah, my tape is usually over my camera.
DAD: Why don’t I see you?
JACK: I got my tape on my camera. One second.
DAD: Ah. I can’t even hear you.
JACK: You can’t hear me?
DAD: My sound…
JACK: [Background talk] There’s a story I had that I totally forgot about but I remembered recently, and I wanted to call up my dad and walk through it again with him to try to remember how it went.