Jack Recider

Which I think with the Equifax breach, most of us Americans have had our private data completely exposed anyway. I think this is a problem that needs to be solved. And while I think some solutions are out there, it's piecemeal and complicated. I don't see anyone doing it holistically right now.

Something that still rattles around in my head from this story, that hard drive that the Feds took, it still has his Bitcoin wallet on it. The Feds never got access to that Bitcoin. It's still sitting there untouched. And they still have that hard drive and won't give it back. And the reason they kept it is because it has evidence on it, data that he stole from various places.

Something that still rattles around in my head from this story, that hard drive that the Feds took, it still has his Bitcoin wallet on it. The Feds never got access to that Bitcoin. It's still sitting there untouched. And they still have that hard drive and won't give it back. And the reason they kept it is because it has evidence on it, data that he stole from various places.

He asked them, just take what you want off it and give me back the drive. But they refused. 1,000 Bitcoin still sits on that hard drive. 1,000 Bitcoin today is worth $25 million. Just imagine $25 million sitting in some storage locker in a federal building and the feds have no idea it's there. So it sits for years and will probably one day be destroyed by some lowly computer technician.

He asked them, just take what you want off it and give me back the drive. But they refused. 1,000 Bitcoin still sits on that hard drive. 1,000 Bitcoin today is worth $25 million. Just imagine $25 million sitting in some storage locker in a federal building and the feds have no idea it's there. So it sits for years and will probably one day be destroyed by some lowly computer technician.

A big thank you to Default for coming on the show and sharing this insane story with us. Like this one, I was like, wait, what? Like so many times. It's just unreal. If you like this episode, you should probably check out episode 109 called Team Poison. It's another story that was sort of running alongside this one in parallel and sort of same time and place of the internet.

A big thank you to Default for coming on the show and sharing this insane story with us. Like this one, I was like, wait, what? Like so many times. It's just unreal. If you like this episode, you should probably check out episode 109 called Team Poison. It's another story that was sort of running alongside this one in parallel and sort of same time and place of the internet.

Okay, what housekeeping is... Oh yeah, a lot of you are telling me you're finally caught up and have listened to all the episodes. If that's you, I want you to know there are 10 bonus episodes on Patreon. You can support the show and hear more stuff if you want. Go to patreon.com slash darknetdiaries. My favorite online hangout these days is the Darknet Diaries Discord.

Okay, what housekeeping is... Oh yeah, a lot of you are telling me you're finally caught up and have listened to all the episodes. If that's you, I want you to know there are 10 bonus episodes on Patreon. You can support the show and hear more stuff if you want. Go to patreon.com slash darknetdiaries. My favorite online hangout these days is the Darknet Diaries Discord.

We have 17,000 members, but I can squeeze you in. So come on. Just go to discord.gg slash darknetdiaries and come say hi. This episode was created by me, the slow Loris Jack Reciter. It was assembled by the corpulent porpoise, Tristan Ledger. Mixing done by Proximity Sound. And our theme music is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

We have 17,000 members, but I can squeeze you in. So come on. Just go to discord.gg slash darknetdiaries and come say hi. This episode was created by me, the slow Loris Jack Reciter. It was assembled by the corpulent porpoise, Tristan Ledger. Mixing done by Proximity Sound. And our theme music is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

I tried teaching my mom how to build a PC, but all we did was make my mother bored. This is Darknet Diaries.

I tried teaching my mom how to build a PC, but all we did was make my mother bored. This is Darknet Diaries.

Okay, so I've got a good story for you today. But when I was researching this episode, I came across something that wasn't exactly hacker related, but it captured my curiosity for like a good 30 minutes. And maybe you'll find this interesting too. So apparently people in India like flying kites.

Okay, so I've got a good story for you today. But when I was researching this episode, I came across something that wasn't exactly hacker related, but it captured my curiosity for like a good 30 minutes. And maybe you'll find this interesting too. So apparently people in India like flying kites.

But when I think of flying kites, I think about doing it in a park or at some beach, someplace wide open, right? Yeah, well, that's not how kite flying happens in India. They like to fly kites on their rooftops in populated parts of the city, like on the tops of low-rise apartments. And you'll sometimes even see them hanging over their balcony or flying the kite right out the window.

But when I think of flying kites, I think about doing it in a park or at some beach, someplace wide open, right? Yeah, well, that's not how kite flying happens in India. They like to fly kites on their rooftops in populated parts of the city, like on the tops of low-rise apartments. And you'll sometimes even see them hanging over their balcony or flying the kite right out the window.

I never even knew you could fly a kite out a window three stories up, but yeah, they're doing it. And I saw videos of this on YouTube. And so on nice breezy days in India, you may look up and see some people on the rooftops flying kites right in the middle of a busy city. Anyway, kites alone aren't that exciting to me, but here's the part that surprised me.

I never even knew you could fly a kite out a window three stories up, but yeah, they're doing it. And I saw videos of this on YouTube. And so on nice breezy days in India, you may look up and see some people on the rooftops flying kites right in the middle of a busy city. Anyway, kites alone aren't that exciting to me, but here's the part that surprised me.

Apparently, there are kite fighters among these people. And this gets wild. They take kite flying to a whole new level, if you ask me. So the idea here is to knock someone else's kite out of the sky with your kite. So, like, if you're on the rooftop and you see a kite flying a couple rooftops over from you, the mission is to knock theirs down.