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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Beat Hackers at Their Own Game

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Susan was concerned when she first learned that someone was impersonating her on Facebook, but that soon turned to anger when she realized the imposter had sent inappropriate photos to her real life friends. Susan tried and failed to get the account taken down. Then came the extortion letter...and now she's freaking out a bit. On this episode of How To!, Jack Rhysider, host of Darknet Diaries and cybersecurity veteran, talks about the time he was stalked on the internet. Jack no longer shares much online — he won't even show his face. You don't have to go that far, but there are things you can do to protect your online data and your emotions in real life. If you're worried about being exposed, Jack has some great resources for battling stalkers and online harassment.

If you liked this episode, check out "How To Steal Back Your Identity."

Do you have a hacker horror story with a happy ending? Or some other problem we can help solve? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.6

I always say that it's not like you have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun the other

0:34.9

people who are outrunning the bear. So the bear attacks

0:39.1

someone else and not you, and you got to safety, right? And I think that's kind of what we're dealing

0:42.9

with. You're listening to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. Today, how not to get eaten by a bear,

0:51.9

the digital kind. Let me explain. A few weeks ago, our listener

0:57.4

Susan found an odd message in her inbox. One morning, I got a request from Facebook saying,

1:06.5

such and such person wants to be friends with you, but the weird thing was that person was my name.

1:13.9

So I kind of ignored it, and then I started getting emails from some of my friends.

1:21.6

And so I went back and I clicked on it just to see who it was.

1:26.0

And there was this Facebook page with half-naked people and my name and my birth date.

1:33.3

So I thought, wow, that's terrible. I need to get rid of this.

1:37.3

Susan flagged the suspicious account in a message to Facebook and then waited to hear back.

1:43.3

And I got an email back saying,

1:45.2

we've looked into it,

1:46.4

and we've decided it doesn't violate our community standards.

1:50.1

And I thought, well, you know.

1:51.3

Yeah, I mean, I thought that's pretty crazy.

1:53.4

I mean, one, this person is sending pornographic content through Facebook,

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