Darkode | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: How do hackers get rich off of ordinary people? One woman’s underworld adventure paying a ransom for her stolen data.
It would seem that hackers today can do just about anything they want - from turning on the cellphone in your pocket to holding your life's work hostage. Cyber criminals have more sophisticated tools today, have learned to work collaboratively around the world and have found innovative ways to remain deep undercover in the internet's shadows. In this episode from 2015, we shine a light into those shadows to see the world from the perspectives of both cybercrime victims and perpetrators.
First we meet mother-daughter duo Alina and Inna Simone, who tell us about being held hostage by criminals who have burrowed into their lives from half a world away. Along the way we learn about the legally sticky spot that unwitting accomplices like Will Wheeler find themselves in.
Then reporter and author Joseph Menn tells us about the surprisingly lucrative professional hacker structure in places throughout the former Soviet Union. Finally, the co-creator of one of the most notorious online marketplaces to ever exist - dark0de or Darkode - speaks to us and NPR cyber-crime expert Dina Temple-Raston about how a young suburban Boy Scout can turn into a world renowned black hat hacker.
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Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Cybercrime Victims and Perpetrators
20:14 Cybercrime Gets Super Organized
24:40 Invite-only Darkode
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Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.

[@melaniea2315]

You should revisit this topic and talk to youtubers like jim browning and kitboga

[@brandonbaty2291]

Great suggestion!

[@abdullahahmed5363]

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[@icecreamtruckog3667]

Ever heard of keeping a backup.

[@atomicultra]

the closed captioning on this transcribing "script kiddy" as "script kitty" is. hilariously out of touch omfg