Claims
Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached.
These are not independently verified facts.
E911 documentation
LEADS_TO
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Skyper says the treatment of the Phrack person who released the E911 article sparked the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Explicit
Confidence 95%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“It also sparked the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation”
Skyper
MEMBER_OF
Teso
Skyper is described as being involved with Teso while reviving Phrack.
Explicit
Confidence 90%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“He actually was involved with a few hacking groups, specifically HERT and Teso”
Skyper
MEMBER_OF
HERT
Skyper says he was involved with HERT while working to revive Phrack.
Explicit
Confidence 90%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“He actually was involved with a few hacking groups, specifically HERT and Teso”
The Art of Port Scanning
MENTIONS
Nmap
The Phrack article followed the release of Nmap and explained effective port scanning with the tool.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“the person who made Nmap published how to effectively port-scan using the tool on Phrack”
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit
MENTIONS
buffer overflow
The article explained to a wide audience how buffer overflows work and how to perform them.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“was the first article that told to the wider audience how buffer overflows work”
Hacker Manifesto
PART_OF
Phrack
Jack says the Hacker Manifesto was first published on Phrack.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“One of the Legion of Doom members wrote it and published it first on Phrack”
Phrack High Council
PART_OF
Anti-Security Movement
Skyper describes PHC as the radical form of the Anti-Security Movement.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“PHC materialized, and they were probably — let’s call them the radical form of Anti-Security Movement”
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit
PART_OF
Phrack
Skyper identifies Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit as a Phrack Issue #49 article.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Issue #49”
The Art of Port Scanning
PART_OF
Phrack
TMZ identifies The Art of Port Scanning as a Phrack Issue #51 article.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· TMZ
EP 170
Details
“The Port Scanning — The Art of Port Scanning from Issue #51”
E911 documentation
PART_OF
Phrack
Skyper identifies the E911 documentation as a Phrack article, probably published in Issue #24.
Uncertain
Confidence 98%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“the article of the E911 documentation that was released in 1989, I believe. I think it was Issue #24.”
Skyper
USES
domain takeover via exposed authorization code
Skyper says he used an exposed authorization code to steal the phrack.org domain.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Skyper
EP 170
Details
“So, I decided to steal a domain, which was phrack.org”
“the authorization code would be written there in the hidden HTML tag”
Nmap
USES
port scanning
Nmap is described as a tool used for port scanning.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“Nmap is the defacto tool, almost the standard for how we do port-scanning today.”
tmp.out
USES
Linux virus infection techniques
TMZ says tmp.out researched Linux virus infection techniques.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· TMZ
EP 170
Details
“infection techniques of Linux viruses and things like this”
tmp.out
USES
ELF
TMZ says tmp.out was formed to research ELF and related subjects.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· TMZ
EP 170
Details
“We just wanted to research ELF”
Phrack High Council
USES
rm-rf
Skyper says a PHC-modified Phrack article contained a destructive rm-rf command that deleted an entire computer.
Attributed
Confidence 95%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 170
Details
“it had the command rm-rf, which would delete your whole hard drive”
Beatdapp
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Streaming fraud
Beatdapp is described as a company that analyzes music streams to detect and investigate streaming fraud.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 171
Details
“Beatdapp in order to analyze music streams to detect fraud”
Jack Rhysider
AUTHORED
Darknet Diaries
The outro identifies Jack as the creator of the Darknet Diaries show.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“This show is created by me, the hashed brown Jack Rhysider.”
Beatdapp
DEVELOPED_BY
Andrew Batey
Beatdapp is described as the company Andrew co-founded and whose blockchain and stream-analysis technology he helped build.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 171
Details
“the name of the company that Andrew co-founded was called Beatdapp”
“We built this technology.”
Beatdapp
DEVELOPED_BY
Poria
Poria is described as part of the co-founder team that built Beatdapp's tracking technology and as a machine-learning engineer.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“Poria was a really gifted machine-learning AI engineer”
“Andrew and his co-founders Morgan and Poria built a tool”
Beatdapp
DEVELOPED_BY
Morgan
Morgan is described as Andrew's co-founder in the team that built Beatdapp's technology.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“Morgan, my co-founder”
“Andrew and his co-founders Morgan and Poria built a tool”
Jim Trustee
MEMBER_OF
Department of Justice
Jim Trustee is described as a former Chief of Organized Crime for the Department of Justice.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“our lawyer for the company is this guy named Jim Trustee. He was the former Chief of Organized Crime for the DOJ.”
Jack Rhysider
MENTIONS
Reddit
Jack mentions Reddit posts reporting that users' Spotify accounts showed playback of unfamiliar artists.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 171
Details
“I’ve actually seen many Reddit posts where people are saying, hey, what’s up with my Spotify account?”
Jack Rhysider
REFERENCES
Spotify accuses Drake of forging billions of fraudulent streams
Jack references the article about Spotify accusing Drake of forging fraudulent streams.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 171
Details
“I saw this article last week. Spotify accuses Drake of forging billions of fraudulent streams.”
Andrew Batey
USES
Facebook
Andrew says his group used Facebook-related manipulation to launch artists and artificially increase followers and likes.
Explicit
Confidence 95%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“we launched an artist on Facebook”
“we could drive a million fans to something”
Andrew Batey
USES
Like-jacking
Andrew says like-jacking was one of his favorite techniques and that his group used it to drive large numbers of fans to pages.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
Details
“My favorite thing at the time was like-jacking.”
“we could drive millions of fans to things”