Meet mobman. Chances are if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000’s, you were infected with malware he wrote called SubSeven. Hacking changed mobman’s life. Hear how it happened by listening to this episode.
You can find mobman on Twitter as @GregTampa.
References
- Rolling Stone article about mobman
- mobman interview with CBS Miami
- Old Videos of mobman and his friends playing Ultima Online
- Forum post of someone who lost their Ultima Online Account
- Keynote talk that mobman gave at BSides Tampa about online fraud
- Dispute: Who’s the real mobman?
Attribution
Image for this episode is a drawing of Mobman, created by dr4w1ngluc4s. Check out his Instagram to see some amazing artwork!
Theme music for this show was created by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Additional music by Epidemic Sound.
“Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
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Transcript
[FULL TRANSCRIPT]
JACK: Computers aren’t always right. They make mistakes, encounter errors, and crash. Sometimes the errors can be frustrating especially when the computer is at a big company and it makes a billing error that says you owe them $1,000. When that corporation won’t admit it’s their mistake and insists you pay for the bill that you didn’t create, this can be infuriating. But what can you do when you try to fight it but the corporation refuses to admit it’s their problem? Well, some hackers know exactly what to do.