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🗓️ 5 November 2024
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Chris Rock is known for being a security researcher. But he’s also a black hat incident responder. He tells us about a job he did in the middle east.
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0:00.0 | Just a content warning from the top here. There's quite a few swear words in this one. I don't know. Do these content warnings even help anyone? Let me know if you like knowing if there's swear words coming up or not. Someone who's been on my radar for the last decade is a guy named Chris Rock. Not that Chris Rock, a different Chris Rock, a white guy, an Australian. |
0:21.6 | And I know him as a security researcher, but as soon as I got on the call with him, |
0:26.0 | I started learning that he's way more than just a researcher. |
0:30.0 | Yes, I'm a public guy for my research, but not public for that side of the business. |
0:34.4 | So for me, it's just a gig, and whether it's, it's a white or black, |
0:38.5 | it makes no difference to me. So I think that sort of, uh, wait, so have you done black had gigs |
0:43.9 | before? Oh, shit, yeah. This is the, this is the, this is the norm. Um, I know a lot of people on the white hat saying, oh, I used to be a black hat and now I'm not. I mean, for me, it's like I don't give a shit whether it's white or black. |
0:56.9 | Are you a hacker? |
0:57.5 | Yes. |
0:58.0 | Hold on a second. |
0:59.5 | But the black hat indicates that you're doing criminal activity. |
1:03.2 | So you don't give a shit if you're doing criminal activity. |
1:05.7 | No, not at all. |
1:06.7 | Not at all. It's funny, I meet with a lot of people who do the whole, you know, hacking is not a crime and all that sort of stuff. It's all full of shit. That's the public persona to keep their job safe. But at the end of the day, when you have a beer with them and you talk shit, it's all 11. I mean, I'm sure you stole your mom's credit card or something, |
1:30.0 | but that's small potatoes compared to when you're an adult, I suppose. |
1:33.9 | We've done everything. |
1:34.9 | We've done banks. |
1:36.5 | We've done government. |
1:37.5 | We've done telcos. |
1:39.2 | We've done big oil companies, just out of exploratory processes. |
1:44.8 | Like, yeah, normal stuff. |
1:46.4 | I want to say normal stuff. |
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