Professor Dubstep

Because it was, you know, it just goes, one thing, they're traders, they don't like things leaking. And two, it does damage things. Three, it invites trouble, it invites legal trouble if you are the one to leak something.

Because it was, you know, it just goes, one thing, they're traders, they don't like things leaking. And two, it does damage things. Three, it invites trouble, it invites legal trouble if you are the one to leak something.

So the outside, Extral, looked like a place that was just a rampage of things, totally uncontrolled. But actually behind the scenes, it was kind of a front. So if an artist was cool and contacted the moderators of the subreddit or the people in charge, they could say, please prevent this thing from leaking. There's release plans for it soon. Would you mind keeping it off?

So the outside, Extral, looked like a place that was just a rampage of things, totally uncontrolled. But actually behind the scenes, it was kind of a front. So if an artist was cool and contacted the moderators of the subreddit or the people in charge, they could say, please prevent this thing from leaking. There's release plans for it soon. Would you mind keeping it off?

If they were nice about it, they could get their brand added to the filter so that nothing could be posted.

If they were nice about it, they could get their brand added to the filter so that nothing could be posted.

So late 2016 rolls around. Spintire comes to me on Skype and says, look, we've got this old password of Skrillex's. I say, okay, well, how? How does this happen? And he kind of hesitates to explain it at first and just says, oh, just look at it. Just try it on these things. Just try it on the old Skype account. Okay. It works. It logs straight in. To Skrillex's Skype account.

So late 2016 rolls around. Spintire comes to me on Skype and says, look, we've got this old password of Skrillex's. I say, okay, well, how? How does this happen? And he kind of hesitates to explain it at first and just says, oh, just look at it. Just try it on these things. Just try it on the old Skype account. Okay. It works. It logs straight in. To Skrillex's Skype account.

Yeah, and it was an old inactive account. It was dead. It was not being used. But the password worked, and I said, well, how'd you get this? Yeah, good question.

Yeah, and it was an old inactive account. It was dead. It was not being used. But the password worked, and I said, well, how'd you get this? Yeah, good question.

And I said, well, how'd you get this? Eventually he explains, he says that databases have leaked from all kinds of sites. There was quite a lot of databases that got stolen and uploaded online in 2016. There was Dropbox, had their database stolen. Last.fm had their database stolen. Myspace had their database stolen as well.

And I said, well, how'd you get this? Eventually he explains, he says that databases have leaked from all kinds of sites. There was quite a lot of databases that got stolen and uploaded online in 2016. There was Dropbox, had their database stolen. Last.fm had their database stolen. Myspace had their database stolen as well.

And they're all just uploaded to this thing called, I think it was Leaked Source. And you could basically pay $20 a month for access to this. and it would give you access to all of these databases, so you could just view the results, the hashed passwords and things.

And they're all just uploaded to this thing called, I think it was Leaked Source. And you could basically pay $20 a month for access to this. and it would give you access to all of these databases, so you could just view the results, the hashed passwords and things.

You could just take the hash and just decrypt it yourself, because they were really poorly protected, just standard MD5, which almost the whole MD5 table had been cracked by that point.

You could just take the hash and just decrypt it yourself, because they were really poorly protected, just standard MD5, which almost the whole MD5 table had been cracked by that point.

my goodness my brain is running a million miles an hour right now there is going to be an all-out onslaught of people they're going to be trying to hack into these musicians files hey yo i'm eating fun dip right now so what we've done basically is just put the email in that we that we knew of of these artists and if they had a result come up from some old old database that had been leaked

my goodness my brain is running a million miles an hour right now there is going to be an all-out onslaught of people they're going to be trying to hack into these musicians files hey yo i'm eating fun dip right now so what we've done basically is just put the email in that we that we knew of of these artists and if they had a result come up from some old old database that had been leaked

that was poorly encrypted, you could take that hashed result and decrypt it and just hope that their security was not so great and that they kept reusing this password for all this time and use the same one on every site or whatever.

that was poorly encrypted, you could take that hashed result and decrypt it and just hope that their security was not so great and that they kept reusing this password for all this time and use the same one on every site or whatever.