Hieu Minh Ngo USES phishing
Hieu used phishing emails to compromise private investigators' computers and impersonate them.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I used that to do phishing. I was phishing them to a malware”
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Hieu Minh Ngo USES phishing
Hieu used phishing emails to compromise private investigators' computers and impersonate them.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I used that to do phishing. I was phishing them to a malware”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES Google dorking
Hieu searched Google using Google dorks to find vulnerable websites.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I searched on Google with those keywords, some of the Google dork”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES identity theft
Hieu sold U.S. identities and acknowledged that his service enabled identity theft-related activity.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“Stealing identities and selling that is far less of a crime”
“I kinda like I hurt and harmed so many people’s lives”
Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Glenn Greenwald
Ola says he was in contact with Glenn Greenwald and discussed possibly examining the Snowden archives.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I was in contact with him, for example, and that’s the kind of contact that I don’t really want to do from a normal machine.”
Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Tor Project
Ola says the Tor Project was particularly supportive of him and that he worked closely with it.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“The EFF has been particularly supportive, and the Tor Project, because those are the people I worked closely with”
Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Privacy advocacy
Ola says he began doing privacy and digital-advocacy work after Aaron Swartz's death and continued working on privacy tools.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“We started talking about how we wanted to do more from a privacy perspective, from a digital advocacy perspective”
Senain ASSOCIATED_WITH El Russo
Ola says El Russo was described as a secret source of Senain, but presents this account as something they had heard and were not certain was true.
Uncertain Confidence 86% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“Senain had a source, a secret source, called El Russo.”
“Basically, what we’ve heard it told”
Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Julian Assange
Ola explicitly says he is a friend of Julian Assange, while denying that they were collaborators or coworkers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I am a friend of Julian Assange”
“We were never collaborators or working together in any way.”
Franz Kafka AUTHORED The Trial
Jack identifies The Trial as a book by Franz Kafka.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 163 Details
“Have you heard of the book The Trial by Franz Kafka?”
Ola says he became one of JRuby's core developers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I became one of the core developers for JRuby”
Ola says he was involved in creating Jatha, described as a Lisp variant for the JVM.
Derived Confidence 78% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I first was involved in a list variant called Jatha”
Ola says that he and collaborators created the CoyIM chat tool.
Explicit Confidence 91% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“We were also doing our own development. We created a chat platform, a chat tool called CoyIM.”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES Telnet
The alleged evidence in the case was a photograph of an incomplete telnet connection that timed out without a username being entered.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“this is a telnet connection that — where it asks for the username and no one put anything in, and then it times out”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES Unauthorized access to a computer system
Ola says the charge in the case was attack against the integrity of computer systems, later described as access without permission to a computer or telecommunications system.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“What they accused me of in this hearing in front of the judge was an attack against the integrity of computer systems.”
“access without permission to a computer system or telecommunication system”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES Cellebrite
The episode says investigators used Cellebrite to analyze Ola's phone.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 163 Details
“They used a tool called Cellebrite to analyze his phone”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES CNT
The prosecution used a photograph showing a telnet connection to CNT as alleged evidence against Ola.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“the prosecution starts using this, saying that I hacked into the systems of CNT”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES INA Papers
Ola presents a theory that his arrest was politically connected to the INA Papers, while explicitly saying he was never charged with the INA Papers.
Uncertain Confidence 88% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“we had one theory. In March of 2019, there was a very big leak of documents in Ecuador called the INA Papers.”
“they never charged me with that”
Ecuadorian arrest and prosecution of Ola Bini INVOLVES Interpol
Ola says he was held in a room marked Interpol during the arrest.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 163 Details
“I look at the sign on the room. It says Interpol.”
Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Thoughtworks
Ola says he was hired by Thoughtworks in 2007 and worked there for ten years.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I left Sweden in 2007 because I was hired by an international software development company called Thoughtworks. I worked for them for ten years”
Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Centro de Autonomia Digital
Ola says he and others started and operated the Centro de Autonomia Digital nonprofit in Ecuador.
Explicit Confidence 92% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“So, this is a nonprofit called Centro de Autonomia Digital”
Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Seguridad Digital Ecuador
Ola says he runs Seguridad Digital Ecuador, which he describes as a cybersecurity company.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I run another organization as well, which is called Seguridad Digital Ecuador”
Ola says he mostly used Debian versions on his regular computers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“For the regular computers, I was mostly using Debian versions”
Ola says he used Tails drives with persistent modules for highly sensitive work.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“Most of them were Tails drives with persistent modules, because I was using Tails a lot for high-sensitive stuff.”
Ola says his first GPG key was uploaded to key servers in approximately 2001 or 2002.
Explicit Confidence 92% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“you will find my first GPG key uploaded in 2001 or 2002”
Ola says he carried YubiKeys and used them as part of his password practices.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details
“I have USB drives and YubiKeys around my neck”
“my passwords are composed of stuff from the YubiKey”