107: Alethe

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Alethe is a social engineer. Professionally she tries to trick people to give her passwords and access that she shouldn’t have. But her journey to this point is interesting and in this episode she tells us how she became a social engineer. Follow Alethe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AletheDenis Sponsors Support for this show comes from Skiff. Skiff is a collaboration platform built for privacy from the ground up. Every document, note, and idea you write is end-to-end encrypted and completely private. Only you and your trusted collaborators can see what you’ve created. Try it out at https://www.skiff.org/darknet. Support for this show comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so one year when I was in college, I took a job at the Renaissance Festival.
0:05.5	If you don't know what that is, it's a place where people dress up like they did it in
0:08.7	the 15th century and do things from that time period like jousting and falconry and eating
0:14.0	old-fashioned food.
0:15.5	It's almost like an amusement park with tall walls all around it and you have to pay
0:19.7	to get inside.
0:21.0	Well, when I got a job there, my boss forgot to give me an employee pass to get in.
0:27.4	So every day that I came to work, I had to find a way to sneak into the festival.
0:33.7	This was such a fun thing for me to do because I had an honest reason to sneak into the Renaissance
0:39.1	Festival.
0:40.1	I figured out where employees park and I saw there was a security guard watching the
0:44.5	back gates and side entrances and stuff, but I quickly learned their habits and was
0:49.2	able to find ways to go around them.
0:51.8	Over time, the security guards started to notice me more and more and thought I was
0:56.1	suspicious because I was showing up every day and always avoiding them once they even
1:01.0	got in their golf cart and came straight towards me.
1:04.6	And I just ducked behind some trees or some cars or something and waited for them to roll
1:08.3	on by in their golf cart.
1:10.5	Then when the coast was clear, I'd pop up and go the other way and figure out a way
1:14.0	to get in the festival.
1:15.6	This went on for months.
1:17.9	Until my boss said, hey, I was talking with the front office today and we were going
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