161: mg

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we talk with mg (https://x.com/MG), the brilliant (and notorious) hacker and hardware engineer behind the OMG Cable. A seemingly ordinary USB cable with extraordinary offensive capabilities.

Learn more about mg at: o.mg.lol

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, it's Jack, host of the show.
0:02.8	I am feeling good.
0:04.5	I am feeling healthy, strong, fit.
0:06.3	I'm in the game.
0:07.5	And so I'm coming at you with a second episode this month.
0:10.3	Let's go.
0:11.6	DefCon is coming up in a few weeks.
0:13.1	I'll be there.
0:14.0	I wouldn't miss it.
0:14.9	You know me.
0:16.0	And if you don't know, it's the premier hacking conference in Vegas.
0:19.8	And I love going because every year
0:21.9	something crazy happens. You don't always know what it'll be, but you know something is going down
0:27.1	somewhere. Like maybe someone will drop a zero day live on stage, which will suddenly make us all
0:32.0	panic and call home, shut everything down. Or maybe the FBI breaks into someone's hotel room
0:37.4	and arrests someone who they've been chasing for a decade. Or maybe the FBI breaks into someone's hotel room and arrests someone
0:38.3	who they've been chasing for a decade. Or maybe someone gives a talk that makes history.
0:44.0	I mean, Julian Assange once gave a talk at the Chaos Computer Camp in Germany to announce wiki leaks.
0:50.2	Lots of people come to drop big ideas at hacker conferences. And if there's a talk that makes history,
0:55.8	I want to be there for that moment. I want to be in the room where it happens. Anyway, I'm not planning
1:00.4	any party or anything this year. I'll just be floating around, like all over the place. But check
1:05.8	my Discord or Twitter for like live updates on where I'll be, though. And if you see me, please say hi because I love meeting you.
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