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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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It’s straight out of a hacking thriller: drug dealers. Murderers. Extortionists. Traffickers. Hit men. All using an encrypted network to openly talk about their illicit trades, amassing millions in messages.
Then, like the magical hacks of a CSI cyber episode, the cops were in the network and went on the offensive.
In one of his wildest stories to date, and that’s saying something, we have the great Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox on the show this week to tell us all about his wild cybercrime scoop.
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0:00.0 | It's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:07.0 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.0 | I know this. |
0:14.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | Eagle won. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:24.7 | It's straight out of a hacking thriller. |
0:26.4 | Drug dealers, murderers, extortionists, traffickers, |
0:29.7 | all using an encrypted network to openly talk about their illicit trade, |
0:34.1 | amassing millions in messages. |
0:36.6 | Then, like the magical hacks of a CSI cyber episode, |
0:40.6 | I'm a behavioral scientist. Fancy for a human lie detector. I work crimes that start in the mind, |
0:48.2 | live online. I'm a cyber cop. The cops were in the network and went on the offensive. |
0:57.9 | In one of his wildest stories to date, and that's saying something, we have the great motherboard reporter Joseph Cox in the show this week tell us all about his wild cybercrime |
1:02.6 | scoop. |
1:04.0 | I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber. |
1:15.6 | So Joseph, you're back on cyber. |
1:22.7 | And for this one, I must say it's a very rare occasion in which you find out about a story in this space, especially that you've been covering for so long and I've been covering |
1:26.7 | for so long, where you think to yourself, you know, those CSI examples of hacking that are really stupid and simplistic, |
1:33.3 | one kind of came to life. |
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