Andrew Brandt

And he was the researcher at this company called Sichuan... Sichuan Secret... Silence Technology Company.

Yeah, Sichuan Silence Technology Company Limited, right?

So...

This guy made it his career to break into firewalls and find vulnerabilities and then pass them off to people who would take advantage of them.

And for all of his efforts, he's in his early 30s, he has a $10 million Rewards for Justice bounty on his head, and he can never travel outside of a non-extradition country in the world ever again without fearing for arrest and...

to the United States.

And it just makes me wonder if it really was worth it to him.

Because in many respects, he seems like a nice guy.

At one point, he had his heart in the right place.

So G. Big Mao, in his early days of working in this field, used to post on message boards trying to get firewall companies to fix their stuff.

I can't imagine what happened to turn him, to make him break bad in this way.

The story, as we published it, finishes in 2024, not because the attacks stopped, but because at a certain point, you just got to put a pin in it and say, we're going to stop here because if we keep talking about this, it never ends because the attacks have continued.

ever since.

Nothing has stopped.

And if there's anything to be said about this, it's that the cadence has picked up.

It has broadened its scope.

We're seeing every security company in the industry in various ways targeted in very similar ways.

Yeah, happy to be with you.

It's always a busy time, this time of year.

You know, for people in the business of sports, whether it's agents, whether it's team executives, now on the college side, which I'm doing for negotiating player contracts, the busy time of year is when there are no games.