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CYBER

The RaidForums, Illegal ‘Club Penguin’ Servers, and the Blockchain in the DPRK

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Every week we publish multiple incredible stories on Motherboard. This week there were so many that we couldn’t decide which one we wanted to focus on. So. We’re gonna do something a little different for this episode.


That’s right, we’re going full Cipher. If you’re familiar with the show, Cipher is that infrequent segment we do where we decipher the week’s biggest tech stories. On this episode of Cyber we answer the questions: Is it illegal to run a private Club Penguin server? How is T-Mobile dealing with hackers? And why can’t I get on to the Raid Forums and what happens if you make an illegal trip to North Korea to spread the gospel of the Blockchain.


Here to help sort through these headlines is the man who wrote many of them: Motherboard Staff Writer Joseph Cox.


Stories discussed in this episode:


Cops Arrest 3 People for Running ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’ Beloved by Millions


Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites


T-Mobile Secretly Bought Its Customer Data from Hackers to Stop Leak. It Failed.


US Extradites Man Who Allegedly Sold Backdoored Phones for the FBI


Ethereum Programmer Jailed for North Korea Trip Wanted to Clone Dogs, Become ‘Crypto Hero’


We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:10.2

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:14.6

It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

0:18.6

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.3

Eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:24.1

Hello out there on the Internet.

0:26.1

Happy Friday.

0:26.9

I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:29.3

You know, it's been a great week here at Motherboard.

0:32.4

We've had many incredible stories, so many, in fact, that we couldn't decide which one we wanted to focus on.

0:38.0

So we're going to do something a little different for this episode.

0:41.2

That's right, we're going full cipher.

0:43.7

If you're familiar with the show, Cipher is that infrequent segment we do, where we decipher the week's biggest text stories.

0:49.8

It's kind of a potpourri of everything we've covered this week on the site.

0:53.0

And this week, we answer these important questions. Is it illegal to run a private club penguin server? How is

0:59.5

T-Mobile dealing with hackers? Why can't I get onto the raid forums? And what happens if you want to

1:05.2

make an illegal trip to North Korea to spread the gospel of blockchain? Here, to help me sort through

1:10.7

these stories,

1:11.9

is the man who wrote many of them.

1:14.3

It's motherboard staff writer, Joseph Cox.

1:16.5

J.C., how are you doing?

1:18.9

I'm all good.

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