155: Kingpin

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, we delve into the multifaceted career of Joe Grand, also known as “Kingpin.” A renowned hardware hacker and computer engineer, Joe has been exploring and manipulating electronic systems since the 1980s. As a former member of the legendary hacker collective L0pht Heavy Industries, he has significantly contributed to the cybersecurity landscape. Joe is also the proprietor of Grand Idea Studio, a research and development firm, and has shared his expertise through various media, including his YouTube channel. Join us as we explore Joe’s unique perspective on hacking, engineering, and his extraordinary journey in the world of technology.

https://linktr.ee/joegrand

Sponsors

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.

Support for this show comes from Lumen. It used to be hard to track your metabolism, but Lumen is a little device that you breath into which tells you if your burning fat or carbs, fast and easy and have your results in seconds. And knowing that will help you know what kind of food your body needs. And knowing that will help you with your health goals like losing weight or gaining muscle. Take the next step to improving your health go to lumen.me/darknet.

Support for this show comes from ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter has solved the hiring problem. Employers prefer it the most for so many reasons. Let’s start by telling you about their matching technology. They work hard to find the best candidates for your needs, and will instantly show you results once you post a job listing. ZipRecruiter will speed up your hiring process. See it for yourself at www.ziprecruiter.com/DARKNET.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Sometimes, the people who I want to talk to on this show are so cool that I want to be friends with them.
0:05.0	Okay, I'm recording.
0:06.0	Cool.
0:07.0	Where we're going?
0:08.0	Let's go to the lair where the magic happens.
0:11.0	And Joe Grant is someone who, because we have so much in common, I wanted to visit him in person to try to make that extra connection.
0:18.0	All right, here we go.
0:20.0	Oh my. Quite the place. Yeah.
0:21.6	Display case here.
0:22.6	Then you've got a table here with a ton of projects work on.
0:28.6	Yeah, so this is kind of the main table that you, people probably see in videos.
0:33.6	I have my computer, my oscilloscope, that is my one piece of test equipment that I'm always using, power supply, and a couple different projects.
0:42.6	Some fault injection set up here.
0:44.7	All these circuit boards are for a class I'm teaching in a couple weeks.
0:48.1	I have to get those prepared.
0:50.1	Showed me around his office.
0:51.6	I think a better description for his office would be a workshop.
0:55.1	It's really a place that sparks creativity.
0:57.2	Wherever you look, it's full of gadgets and tools that's just beckon you to pick something up and start building something.
1:03.2	Workbench with various pieces of circuitry.
1:07.2	And yeah, a lot of display stuff also.
1:09.9	Got your YouTube plaque on the wall. Got your YouTube plaque on the wall.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jack Rhysider, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jack Rhysider and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.