#255 Ryan Montgomery – Roblox & Minecraft: Hacker Exposes the Largest Online Video Games
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Ryan Montgomery. Sean Ryan. Welcome back to the show, man.
Thank you, man. I can't believe I am back in a good way.
What's it been, like two years? Three years. Has it been three years? Three years, yeah. Lots has happened.
Yeah, you got me thinking, is it two years? I think it's three. It's three.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Lots has happened since you came on here, man.
A lot. For both of us, it seems.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, look at this studio, man. It's unbelievable.
I've been dying to show you.
I couldn't wait to see it. I mean, for the people that can't see the whole thing in real life, a video's not going to capture how awesome this is. It doesn't matter what kind of camera you use or how you 360 angle. It doesn't matter what you use. It's... i've seen the last studio which was awesome within itself and then this one it's like two or three times as big just the studio area alone i can't talk about the rest of the property but the rest of the property is sick uh like beyond belief sick and super happy for you and not in a demeaning way but proud of you and uh i'm very grateful to be back
Well, thank you, man. You were a huge part of this. You know that. Dude, I'm fucking proud of you too, man. Thanks. Just to recap for anybody that's listening who doesn't know who you are, I just kind of want to go over how we connected the very first time. where you were at in life and kind of where I was at. But yeah, so backstory is I pull up Instagram one day, I see this very small, very small MMA podcast. 500 followers. 500 followers. I don't know how this reel popped up on my algorithm. I don't even look at reels very often. And there you are. And if I remember correctly, I may mess this up a little bit, The clip that I saw, and I want to roll the clip right now.
There's a father that posted a photo of their child in the bathtub where you couldn't see everything, but you could see enough. And it said on the top of it, they have no idea what's going to happen to them tonight. And then underneath there was comments with other people saying what they were going to do to this person's child. And at this point, remember, I have access to their server and they don't know it. After I spoke to my attorney, who told me, hey, you did break federal law. If you report this, you're risking going to prison. But I was just thinking to myself, if I bring this to trial, what jury is going to convict me? I mean, I just don't think guilty or not. I'm willing to take my chances.
So I reached out to my attorney, reached out to another attorney in Virginia, since he was a guy trying to run for Congress. Spoke to over 10 news stations. I have some of the calls recorded with them. Everybody was interested in this story. They thought it was amazing. As soon as it got to legal, Not one of them posted this story. Even when I said, remove my name from it, remove any of the info I obtained illegally from it, just alert people that this website exists on the internet, nobody posted it. So I got an FBI report tip line number. I think it was a website, ic3.gov. It's an internet complaint center report number. So I got that. The kicker, which is what got me started in this, after all of that, is six months later, I'm watching the news and I'm reading the news online.
I see Nathaniel Larson arrested at an airport at a layover with a 12-year-old girl that he kidnapped. And they were fully aware of what he was doing. They're fully aware of the 3,000 other people that I caught on the website with their IP addresses, their emails, their chat history, everything about them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–6:06
2
What challenges did Ryan Montgomery face during his childhood?
6:06–17:48
3
How did Ryan Montgomery become involved in cybersecurity?
17:48–1:49:32
4
How did Ryan Montgomery's drug use evolve from ecstasy to opioids?
1:49:32–1:50:01
5
What experiences led Ryan to juvenile detention multiple times?
1:50:01–1:51:59
6
What was the impact of Ryan's father's actions on his life?
1:51:59–3:37:29
7
What are the key issues surrounding child exploitation and trafficking discussed in this episode?
3:37:29–3:38:20
8
How does Ryan Montgomery address the role of the U.S. in global child trafficking?
3:38:20–5:25:50
Speakers
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