168: LoD
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
The Legion of Doom (LoD) wasn’t just a “hacker group”, it captured the essence of underground hacking in the 80s/90s. BBSes, phreaking, rival crews, and the crackdowns that changed everything. From those humble beginnings came a legacy that still echoes through modern security culture today.
This is part 1 of the LoD/MoD saga. Part 2 is episode 169: “MoD”.
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Sources
- Book: Masters of Deception (https://amzn.to/4q3O0gJ)
- Book: The Hacker Crackdown (https://amzn.to/3N4bovY)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to play for you a narration of a piece of classic hacker literature. |
| 0:06.0 | Everyone should be familiar with this. |
| 0:08.0 | Some of you may even have parts of this memorized. |
| 0:11.0 | Here, take a listen from the author himself. |
| 0:13.0 | Another one got caught today. |
| 0:15.0 | That's all over the papers. |
| 0:17.0 | Teenager arrested in computer crime scandal. |
| 0:20.0 | Hacker arrested after bank tampering damn kids they're all |
| 0:23.3 | alike i'm a hacker enter my world i made a discovery today i found a computer and then it happened |
| 0:31.2 | a door opened to a world rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins this is it |
| 0:37.0 | this is where I belong. |
| 0:38.6 | But this is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the bod. |
| 0:43.5 | We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons. |
| 0:50.3 | And you call us criminals. We explore, and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge, and you call us criminals. We explore, and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge, |
| 0:57.3 | and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us, |
| 1:03.3 | and try to make us believe that it's for our own good. Yet we're the criminals. Yes, I'm a criminal. |
| 1:15.0 | My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and they think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, |
| 1:21.0 | something that you'll never forgive me for. I'm a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all. |
| 1:30.5 | After all, we're all alike. |
| 1:33.7 | That was written in 1986. |
| 1:41.5 | My name is Lloyd, by the way. |
| 1:44.2 | Also known as the mentor. |
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