Jack Recider

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.

And yeah, shortly after this hack, Denmark changed the law. They made sex with animals illegal. And I can't tell if this hack had anything to do with the laws changing, but the timing is very coincidental. Now, stuff like this, hacking into places, making the news and getting people arrested and stuff, it's like a drug.

And yeah, shortly after this hack, Denmark changed the law. They made sex with animals illegal. And I can't tell if this hack had anything to do with the laws changing, but the timing is very coincidental. Now, stuff like this, hacking into places, making the news and getting people arrested and stuff, it's like a drug.

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Download the State of Cybersecurity 2024 Trends Report today at arcticwolf.com forward slash darknet. That's arcticwolf.com forward slash darknet. Okay, so Default was on a path. He didn't know where the path was taking him, but he already made his way through Anonymous and into different hacker groups. AnonSec was the group where this first exciting stuff was happening.

He kind of took over that group. But do you realize there's a whole infrastructure to these hacker groups? There's data stores to keep records of the stuff you collected or the passwords you've cracked. There's a tool shop to quickly grab hacking tools and how to use them. But to build on that infrastructure, they decided they needed to build a botnet.

He kind of took over that group. But do you realize there's a whole infrastructure to these hacker groups? There's data stores to keep records of the stuff you collected or the passwords you've cracked. There's a tool shop to quickly grab hacking tools and how to use them. But to build on that infrastructure, they decided they needed to build a botnet.

A botnet is just having control of a bunch of computers. You typically try to infect a huge swath of IPs and hope that a bunch of computers get infected and become under your control. But the reason why they wanted a botnet was to route their attacks through it.