“As a professional, you don’t fuck around with your tools. You take good care of your tools” ❤

I live for this. No other podcast will ever compare.

I know nothing about hacking or writing code aside from what I’ve heard on your podcasts. Yet, I am addicted to the stories you bring us. Great work man 👍🏻👍🏻

I have enormous respect for Mikkos lifetime of work fighting the good fight.

2 visuals from this one: Dude ditching the car to run info to CERT at the last minute, and the chuckle after "If I went to the Darkside, how would you know?"

Awesome way to end it. “ jack if i went to the dark-side how would you know?” Lol

As a person who has been through type of stuff, it's refreshing to find a fraternity of people who don't think that this type of activity isn't bat crap crazy.

Listening to a fresh Darknet Diaries drop feels like being part of an exclusive club… ohh wait, it is an exclusive club 😉

Jack, the dark side may have cookies but no other benefits. Many people working in the "protect our clients" industries have strong morals and ethics, which, as Mikko said makes the job interesting and rewarding.

I thought Mikko's voice sounded familiar. I watched one of his lectures before and was so fascinated with his history in cyber security! Thanks for another interesting episode. Stay well Jack!

Your podcast are just the best. So interesting and in depth, you’re awesome, cheers!

Love that this dropped right in middle of EPT Monte Carlo. Great content! Thank you!

This an amazing one probably one of my favorite yet thanks for the deep dives it’s fascinating

This was a fun , interesting and scary podcast to listen to . Mikko sounds like a really cool guy . I'm just glad he's on ourside for the time being. Thanks for all your great work over the years Mikko .

I love your graphics in addition to the great episodes you write and produce.

Can't wait to listen to this on the commute to work!! ❤

thank you for giving me podcasts to listen to, I hope to listen to many more

Thank you very much for such a quality content. Also very grateful for such wonderful guests that you have!) P.S. Its very good that SuperVillain still on the good side!)

Fascinating learning more about the history of malware. I too was a fledgling technician in the early 90s so played a small part in containing the emerging virus threats. Ambulance was my favourite.

Literally the only channel I have notifications on for

Jack, you keep on killing it with the content. Amazing work, dude.

Enjoyed another great broadcast. I remember the virus , Turkey in the straw, just played the jingle, then stoped was easy to fix but you had to restart your computer. Thank you and keep up the good work

That's really damn fascinating, best podcast ever

Ight. 2nd video I've seen and I'm subbed. This is AMAZING content man! and I love the production.

this was incredible and so well researched omg.

the way they enter the room is not as you describe it< there is a device that can reset any hotel room key I was working in a hotel and we did use it when we had trouble with the lock or we were sent to repair so we did use it to clean all information from it before we send it to repair and when a dore lock reset you do not need anymore a key to enter. but the old key will no more validate and open the lock

Best podcast on the internet and I'm not even in tech. But you've made me think about a career in it because of all this cool shit you teach us about. You're awesome jack. I've referred some friends and shared episodes with them. Hopefully they enjoy your pod as much as I do

Been watching since 10k subs. Still wondering why you don't have millions 🤔 love the content!

Wow, great channel. It felt like a modern version of old-time radio... Bravo.

hey Jack, thx for the upload!

Oh man, absolutely awesome video. That ending was hilarious but also left that bit of doubt... what if he has gone to the dark side and he's just a Palpatine... lol Great stuff!

My god Mikko is amazing! Great respect to such a bright mind. Jack, you are the best!

Jack u are the man best podcast on youtube no cap! Respect 💯

Been around since day one, love this show

My two worlds combined! Keep it up jack

With the love bug, you have to keep in mind that at that time e-mail forwards was how jokes were sent at the time. Just like text memes are now. I recall one I got that was called "the Red Neck Virus" I saved it wanting to do a rewrite for a new joke. But the anti-virus I was using at the time grabbed the text file and quarantined it and would not let me get it. Because "virus" was in the name.

Fins sure do have a straight forward way of describing security. Brilliant.

Jam as soon as I see the upload title

Thank you for this content

Mikko is a good “super villain”

I write trading algorithms and had been doing good for quite some time. Recently I discovered that my VNC (remote desktop) was compromised and access logs showed at least 2 addresses snooping around for a long time and coming back months later. Whilst they could only access trading platform logs and not the whole system as I only loaded basic X11 session, during this period my stats went bad and while I will never have definite proof, I'm starting to make a connection. Now I religiously monitor any connections coming in or out.

The end of the conversation with Mikko is plain awesome

Jack - will you still release these in a podcast? I'm not getting them any more.. and miss listening to them in the car!

The best podcast on the entire internet ❤❤😊😊

cheers to the moms out there that were catalyst to our first computer.

Great episode!

Up late enough for a DND drop. Sick af

Love your narration

This episode is very good👍

This happened to Doug Polk, very famous poker player on KZfaq. He got Phished at a hotel in Vegas. The new way to check these days is to run simulations on solvers using a gpu and Nash charts.

The last answer Mikko gave 💥💥, "how would you know I haven't turned to the dark side 🌑🕶️". .... amazing pod

I'm glad long form content still exists

Hello. Very interesting indeed. Good luck.

Did I miss something ? How did the laptop end up in the possession of the hotel employees in the lobby ?

The story of Yen at the hotel in the beginning was freaky AF!!

Big fan jack amazing content

21:05 did he really need to say what car he drove 😂

Good stuff!

Very informative... interesting.

Love these vids

Hi I am soo happy that you make so interesting video's

Hey where's the link to Mikko's video on the first PC virus?

That was a bold attack: took down cameras, probably had security help, physically entered the room, physically injected the RAT. Several times. Incredible. The history lesson was interesting, too.

Love your channel

Best channel on youtube!

Timestamps would greatly add to your very nice videos! ❤

Best channel on the tubies.

I try not to watch all these at once. Man I love dark net diaries!

Torille :D First time hearing about Hyppönen law, but been saying same for long time. Even worse when those smart devices have wireless connections.

On Atari St, there was a virus using the floppy disk's boot sector. Called Ghost, it randomly changes your mouse's Up and Down direction. Annoying, and when you thought every floppy was virus-free, your mouse suddenly changed direction ...

Fantastic!

Ran into a virus back then called "The Bloody" that wasn't detected by any signiture files and wiped out the mbr and that thing drove me crazy for a week!

I wonder if you cross reference all the people seen / checked in / registered for tournament / community "I remember seeing" list, if you'd find only a handful of people who were at all these places at the same time

Woohoo Dark Avenger 🇧🇬 was mentioned, greetings from Bulgaria.

Howdy all. Anyone know how much the merch discount code is for if one is to become a Patron? Thanks in advance and keep up the awesome work Jack (I’ll be subscribing either way).

i love the videos ❤

Ahh, the early days. Loved the history. I was guilty of playful malware myself I guess as a kid back in the very early days. Worked with a buddy to write a tricky bit of code and sneak it into the floppy boot process. I never thought of the real world consequences of my joke until our pastor mentioned in church that his sermon prep had been interrupted by a primitive chat bot hawking market produce and refused to go away until he agreed. Seems his son, my friend, had found our first "target".

I only heard this one now, strange, the subject of love letter was "I love you", just fyi - i remember the day , i saw the extension, so knew it was dodge - read the script - shutdown exchange

Greetings from Copenhagen... I'm deff going to check this out in the Danish media here... wouw the world is small these days!

As a Finn, it's interesting to hear first Finnish person in the show! 😁

I would like to make an addendum to what the sec expert said about data fellows/f secure, do not and I mean do not take his longevity as standard. Companies do not reward loyalty with anything but a front row seat to your own firing when they "have to" "downsize".

Shout out for the Rounders clip

This story would make for an interesting movie/Netflix series.

That reminds me of the time, when someone tried to recruit my services for a poker team which lived in a "working flat"... Back then, I thought it was silly (and turned them down), but now...

it's weird!... i prefer to listen to Jack on KZfaq rather than Spotify. i got both, but here i am. i think it's the community feedback factor 🖖🏼

Still only a quarter million subs!? Wtf mate?! Exactly why I'll be here forever. The ish i crave is the same material that bores the masses cus they cant understand it. It's epiphanous how Jack's gettin it.

The easiest way to get into the majority of hotel room doors is by using a ID card and putting it through the door jam and pushing it just over the latch bolt. Freeing the lock from the door jamb.

Multi accounting was not unusual in the early days of Full Tilt and PokerStars... I knew a guy who had several accounts and would play 4-8 different tables simultaneously to maximize his profit.

888 was hacked recently, All the tournaments became unplayable for all players 😢

Peter laying down the plausible deniability and also "you can't catch these guys, no point trying"

Im an amatuer web designer (self taught loser) and rediscovered a love of computers in the last couple years. Im by no means a hacker or a security specialist. But I have learned a ton of stuff from your show. Ive finished up with episodes before and went reading purely out of the new interests found in your podcast. I spent a night one time reading about SCADA systems even tho they have 0 to do with my life and ive probably never been in the room with one (likely never will be tbh). But thats what im saying -- its inspiring.

Nice episode!! Thanks!! I work alone and listen to all kinds of things while I do. I usually listen to educational material, sometimes just Best of the Worst or Star Trek TNG episodes I have seen many times before so I don't have to see it. I also listen to radio dramas and the occasional "podcast". However today I noticed that YT had at least Beverly Hills Cop 1&2 free for premium users at least. I played them with the visually impaired feature on(by accident lol) which was kinda nice when listening to a movie even if I have seen them a few times in the past. Besides having that "do do do dotodo do do" stuck in my head I also noticed that Eddie Murphy's character is basically doing the same things that Pen Testers do in both movies! He constantly uses social engineering, lockpicks, and physical "hacks" etc. Anyway it was funny. I have been thinking about attempting to enter that industry a lot lately Thanks to your and other's videos. I know I would be good at it. At least the social engineering, entry tasks, and the creative thinking nessasary. I just have a lot more to learn about "computer hacking". I'm rather proficient with computers and hardware as I repair it in my spare time and have for a living. I just kept myself away from the hacking since I know myself well and didn't want to be tempted to do something stupid with the knowledge. However, now that I know about how it can be used for good....and not things that wpuld get me locked up, I may be willing to play catch up. In fact having not learned it traditionally/over a long time, may even give me an out of the box viewpoint that could allow me to think of ways to do things that others haven't before. Pretty much everything I have approached that way in my life has yielded such results. Anyway, thanks for the inspiration, information, and entertainment! I promise I will not turn to the Dark Side. I actually kinda hate money and don't play well with people that are obsessed with it enough to risk life, limb, or "freedom". PS Please consider looking into how Ukraine is using these technologies/techniques in their defense from putin. Unless you have already and I missed it. There is quite a backlog of episodes to catch up on and it is hard to find new ones when YT only seems to recommend things I have already listened to/watched. 🇺🇦

In 1994, an industrial automation project I was working on was infected (every computer) with the "Form" virus, the "Fuckings go to Corinne" one.

Greetings from Bulgaria :)

YESSSSS NEW DD!!!!

love your videos at 2x speed

The hotel should be named so that we know who has a lax attitude to customer security.

Miko gives cool uncle vibes. Love the show! :)

Brilliant

The employees of the hotel are not tech-savvy. Because of that, I don't think that the cameras in the hotel were damaged. The camera's data might have been redirected to the hackers instead. Meaning that, while they were going in and out of the bedroom, the hackers were seeing them. Maybe the hacker was hidden below the bed and didn't even know lol.