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Darknet Diaries

161: mg

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

Technology

4.9 • 9.2K 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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Transcript

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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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