Hacked

Hacked

A podcast about people using technology in unintended ways.

  • 1 hour 28 minutes
    Number Go Up: A Conversation with Author Zeke Faux

    We think Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall is one of the best modern books about crypto. It’s a globetrotting adventure and a great piece of reporting. To celebrate the paperback release, we sat down with Bloomberg investigative reporter and author Zeke Faux to dig into his experience writing it, what he learned, and what he thinks happens next.


    Number Go Up is now available in paperback wherever you get your books.

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    1 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 43 minutes 13 seconds
    Hotline Hacked Vol. 5

    It's a five-alarm fire in the fifth instalment of our call in show. We hear from a caller who accidentally won a naval war-game by unplugging a radio, a person whose company hired someone who clearly lied about their technical background, a very wholesome story about Counterstrike, and a person who decided to do a scavenger hunt by scavenging online instead of the real world.


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    25 September 2024, 10:03 pm
  • 1 hour
    $10 Million in Fake AI Royalties + the 'Infinite Money Glitch' That's Just Fraud + Voter Outreach So Bad It Seemed Like Phishing

    In which we discuss alleged Spotify streaming ad fraud that brought in millions, extremely poor voter outreach and an extended tangent on AI.


    Correction: we failed to make the "Ramen Empire" joke. Our apologies.

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    17 September 2024, 7:24 pm
  • 46 minutes 16 seconds
    Hotline Hacked Vol. 4

    Fourth times a charm. Share your strange tale of technology, true hack, or computer confession at hotlinehacked.com. We discuss stealing login credentials with microphones, hacking courses for cybersecurity classes for instant grades, and parking pits.


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    8 September 2024, 6:44 pm
  • 51 minutes 37 seconds
    Hacking Bicycles + DIY Laser Exploits + the National Public Data Breach

    You can do lot of damage by changing someone's bike gear at the wrong time. A collection of stories including a DIY laser mad science project that aims to replicate a $150,000 piece of equipment, and one of the largest leaks of US Social Security Numbers.

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    24 August 2024, 3:46 am
  • 1 hour 23 seconds
    DEFCON: The Biggest Hacking Event in the World

    DEFCON: The Biggest Hacking Event in the World


    Every year DEFCON, the world’s biggest hacking conference, descends on Las Vegas for a weekend of digital mad science, security, and community building. We braved the desert heat to go find out what it’s all about and to see how many people would talk into a microphone at privacy-centric event. 


    Check out the Capture the Flag replays here: https://www.youtube.com/@livectf

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    16 August 2024, 6:50 am
  • 41 minutes 14 seconds
    CrowdStrike Incident

    We all just watched one of the largest IT events in years unfold in real time with the CrowdStrike incident. We wanted to understand it better, so we called up security researcher and educator John Hammond to get to the bottom of it. 

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    2 August 2024, 6:00 am
  • 57 minutes 10 seconds
    Ticketmaster’s Billions in Barcodes Stolen + AI Misinformation Botnet + Breaking AT&T news

    We got a lot of messages about the Ticketmaster hack that went down since our last episode. We dive into all the weird angles of that evolving story, a strange real time news update about the AT&T hack, and spend a surprising amount of time hyping a Canadian movie about Blackberry. 

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    16 July 2024, 6:50 am
  • 45 minutes 39 seconds
    Google Search Leaks

    Few things impact the shape of the internet more than Google Search, yet its inner workings are mostly a mystery. In May, Rand Fishkin received alleged leaked documents that peal back the curtain as to how it works. We speak with Rand Fishkin about his involvement in the Google API leaks.

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    2 July 2024, 12:01 am
  • 1 hour 15 seconds
    North Korean IT Scam + TikTok Zero Day + Consumer AI Gets Weird

    We discuss a bunch of stories, including the bizarre tale of how an anonymous business registration company let a massive IT scam unfold in the US, a TikTok zero day, Microsoft recall and Apple Private Cloud Compute, and a home-brew cell tower hack in the UK.


    NOTE: I (JB) misspeak at about 18 minutes in. I say "US" when we're talking about the UK.

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    16 June 2024, 6:50 am
  • 52 minutes 47 seconds
    Hotline Hacked Vol. 3

    It's our third call in episode and we're cooking now. Share your strange tale of technology, true hack, or computer confession at hotlinehacked.com. We discuss accidentally causing internet outages, creating a botnet pandoras box, and the proud tradition of hacking into stuff to play great songs the man does't want you to.

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    2 June 2024, 6:50 am
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