145: Shannen

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did. Read more about her from her book “The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice”. An affiliate link to the book on Amazon is here: https://amzn.to/3yaf5sI. Thanks to Spycast for allowing usage of the audio interview with Shannen. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Varonis. Do you wonder what your company’s ransomware blast radius is? Varonis does a free cyber resilience assessment that tells you how many important files a compromised user could steal, whether anything would beep if they did, and a whole lot more. They actually do all the work – show you where your data is too open, if anyone is using it, and what you can lock down before attackers get inside. They also can detect behavior that looks like ransomware and stop it automatically. To learn more visit www.varonis.com/darknet. Support for this show comes from Axonius. The Axonius solution correlates asset data from your existing IT and security solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory of all devices, users, cloud instances, and SaaS apps, so you can easily identify coverage gaps and automate response actions. Axonius gives IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks. Visit axonius.com/darknet to learn more and try it free. Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®. ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How did I get here? I've got such a strange job, you know? I never imagined I'd be a podcaster.
0:08.7	For one, I failed English class at least twice in college, so there's no way I'd ever be a writer
0:15.2	So I thought sometimes I like to step back every now and then and just wonder what crazy life events happened to me to put me in this place I'm in right now.
0:28.4	Let's look at 9-11 for example. On 9-11 I woke up early and took a shower and I walked over to my grandma's house.
0:34.7	She was going to drive me to go see the FBI.
0:38.6	The thing is, the FBI had a job fair type event and was recruiting people who were into computers. I was into computers.
0:45.8	I wasn't exactly thrilled about working for the FBI, but it could be a great adventure.
0:54.5	Maybe I could be a spy or something. All right, yeah, cool, screw it, let's go apply and see what happens.
0:58.2	Come on grandma, wake up, let's go meet with the FBI and see if they'll hire me.
1:02.2	But while I was waiting for her to get ready, I turned on the TV, and the world was changing in front of my eyes. We were watching the TV and live in front of us. We saw a plane crash into a building in New York City.
1:18.0	I've never seen anything like that on live TV before. This was wild. We were stunned by the events, but
1:27.8	we still hopped in the car and drove to this job fair event. And when we got there there the FBI wasn't there the job fair was the
1:36.1	total dud the FBI never even took my resume to look at it later and I never tried
1:41.6	to apply to work there again.
1:43.0	I don't blame them for not showing up.
1:45.0	That was a crazy day.
1:46.0	But it does make me wonder about an alternate universe,
1:50.0	one where I became a Fed and I listened to, I don't know, your podcast instead of you listening to mine. These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.
2:09.0	I'm Jack Reisiter.
2:11.0	This is Darknet Diaries. This episode is sponsored by Exonius.
2:33.0	Complexity is increasing in IT and cybersecurity.
2:36.0	Control it with Exonius, the system of record for all digital infrastructure.
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