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Episode 13: Adrian Chen

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Longform

Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2012

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Chen, staff writer at Gawker and editor at The New Inquiry, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @adrianchen "Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web" (Gawker • Oct 2012) "The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr" (Gawker • Jun 2012) "Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History" (Gawker • Apr 2012) "The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers" (Gawker • Jan 2012) The New Inquiry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:03.2

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

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You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

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But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:21.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

0:26.2

The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

0:31.8

For starters, Zell wants to remind you, only send money to people you know and

0:36.7

trust.

0:37.7

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only.

0:40.9

Terms and conditions apply.

0:48.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan. Cripto is like the financial system but different.

0:52.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your

0:54.9

credit school or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:58.7

crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere all the time.

1:03.8

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

1:06.8

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

1:09.8

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Evan Ratliff from The Adivist and I'm here with Max

1:28.2

Lynxky and Aaron Lamber from Long Form, my co-hosts.

1:31.4

Morning Evan. It's a rainy dayhosts. Morning, Evan.

1:32.8

It's a rainy day morning.

1:35.4

We never do this in the morning for probably good reason.

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