Jack Recider

Sometimes it'll even drop dead from the flood of connections. But then someone else is like, nah, screw Loic. That's lame. And it isn't safe. Let's use Tor's hammer. And so someone started passing Tor's hammer around the chat. And this also floods the target with a whole bunch of traffic. But it uses Tor to route all the traffic through it, hiding where the attack is coming from.

Sometimes it'll even drop dead from the flood of connections. But then someone else is like, nah, screw Loic. That's lame. And it isn't safe. Let's use Tor's hammer. And so someone started passing Tor's hammer around the chat. And this also floods the target with a whole bunch of traffic. But it uses Tor to route all the traffic through it, hiding where the attack is coming from.

So the members all fired this up and together launched an attack on Detroit's water payment system. And immediately it went offline. No one could pay their water bill.

So the members all fired this up and together launched an attack on Detroit's water payment system. And immediately it went offline. No one could pay their water bill.

There's something empowering about pulling off something like this. You feel like the world bends to you and your whims. There's a shift in control, and that control can become intoxicating.

There's something empowering about pulling off something like this. You feel like the world bends to you and your whims. There's a shift in control, and that control can become intoxicating.

Hmm. Pedophiles have been sort of hated universally within anonymous. In these chat rooms where anything was allowed and free speech rules, pedophilia was not allowed, which I've always been fascinated by that. That's the common denominator that everyone agreed on. It didn't matter what group you were in or political affiliation or cause that was important to you. Pedophilia was wrong to everyone.

Hmm. Pedophiles have been sort of hated universally within anonymous. In these chat rooms where anything was allowed and free speech rules, pedophilia was not allowed, which I've always been fascinated by that. That's the common denominator that everyone agreed on. It didn't matter what group you were in or political affiliation or cause that was important to you. Pedophilia was wrong to everyone.

Which you might think, yeah, duh, of course that's wrong. Draw that line. But why there? Why not ban pictures of murdered people? Or pictures of people having sex with animals? Or pictures of torture? All that was approved. Hell, there was a video of two girls eating poo, which was a real big hit in these channels.

Which you might think, yeah, duh, of course that's wrong. Draw that line. But why there? Why not ban pictures of murdered people? Or pictures of people having sex with animals? Or pictures of torture? All that was approved. Hell, there was a video of two girls eating poo, which was a real big hit in these channels.

Like nothing you could possibly present to this crowd shocked them or made them care. Except pedophilia. That was going too far. So imagine, if you will, being a teenager, having these hacking skills, looking around for something to use it on, and seeing that everyone hated pedophiles. All the hackers on all the channels, the cops even, the normies.

Like nothing you could possibly present to this crowd shocked them or made them care. Except pedophilia. That was going too far. So imagine, if you will, being a teenager, having these hacking skills, looking around for something to use it on, and seeing that everyone hated pedophiles. All the hackers on all the channels, the cops even, the normies.

There was even a TV show called Catch a Predator where they'd set up sting operations for pedophiles. It felt like if this is who you wanted to try to hack into or mess with, the universe was on your side. It felt like what you were doing was right in every way. It was helping the world, and nobody would say you're wrong. Yet at the same time, hacking feels so counterculture and rebellious.

There was even a TV show called Catch a Predator where they'd set up sting operations for pedophiles. It felt like if this is who you wanted to try to hack into or mess with, the universe was on your side. It felt like what you were doing was right in every way. It was helping the world, and nobody would say you're wrong. Yet at the same time, hacking feels so counterculture and rebellious.

This is a powerful cocktail to be mixing up as a teenager.

This is a powerful cocktail to be mixing up as a teenager.

Getting pedophiles arrested meant getting respect among the hacker groups, which meant getting more members. Things were progressing for them, and their hacks got bigger.

Getting pedophiles arrested meant getting respect among the hacker groups, which meant getting more members. Things were progressing for them, and their hacks got bigger.

Jeez, mate, you got me fact-checking the weirdest stuff in this episode. Okay, so he's right. In 2014, it was legal in Denmark to have sex with animals, and there was some weird-ass animal sex tourism going on over there. Because like a year earlier, Sweden and Germany banned sex with animals. So it was like a weird moment where some places it was illegal and some it wasn't.

Jeez, mate, you got me fact-checking the weirdest stuff in this episode. Okay, so he's right. In 2014, it was legal in Denmark to have sex with animals, and there was some weird-ass animal sex tourism going on over there. Because like a year earlier, Sweden and Germany banned sex with animals. So it was like a weird moment where some places it was illegal and some it wasn't.