82: Master of Pwn

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The Zero Day Initiative runs a hacker contest called Pwn2Own. The contest calls the best hackers in the world to demonstrate they can hack into software that should be secure. Like browsers, phones, and even cars. A lot of vulnerabilities are discovered from this event which means vendors must fix them. Whoever can demonstrate the most vulnerabilities will be crowned the “Master of Pwn”. Thanks to Dustin Childs and Brian Gorenc from ZDI to hear all about Pwn2Own. Thanks to Radek and Pedro for sharing their experiences of becoming the Masters of Pwn. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Support for this show comes from Kars 4 Kids. Donate your car today, this organization will sell to use for their charity. View all active sponsors. Sources https://www.forbes.com/profile/lee-junghoon/?sh=49ee055fc9c7 https://www.cyberscoop.com/pwn2own-chinese-researchers-360-technologies-trend-micro/ https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/697889208380293120 https://www.techtimes.com/articles/247111/20200130/google-bug-bounty-2019-became-the-highest-paid-google-hackers-reaching-6-5-million.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Pop Quiz. Who is the best hacker in the world? I think I found him.
0:08.1	Oh, it's two guys actually. Pedro and Red.
0:10.9	Oh, wow. They won the 2020 Masters of Pone award, which for now means they're the best.
0:19.6	As much, we really appreciate that. And as much as we would like to think we are,
0:25.3	that would be unfair. It's quite a nice title to have and we're quite happy with it.
0:32.0	But the fact is, there's a lot of good hackers that stain the shadows.
0:36.8	And I know for a fact a lot of them are better than us.
0:40.9	See, here's the thing. Master of Pone is a title given to the winner of the Pone to own hacker
0:45.6	competition. We'll get into what all that means later. But this is a very prestigious event,
0:50.0	with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money at stake. In fact, I think it's the highest
0:54.2	paying the hacker contest out there. And when you have a well-known hacker contest with high
0:59.1	paying rewards and the rules are fair and transparent and it's open for anyone in the world to compete in,
1:04.4	then yeah, I think whoever wins it can possibly say they're the best hackers in the world.
1:09.8	I mean, how else can you prove that except through a fair and open competition, right?
1:14.3	Yeah, it's very good to be crowned a Master of Pone. And of course, anybody can challenge that.
1:22.0	But as Pedro said, there are a lot of people that stain the shadow or they use different
1:27.8	competitions or formats to compete with the rest of the world.
1:37.7	These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.
1:40.7	I'm Jack Recyder. This is Dark Net Diaries.
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