Daniel Beckwitt USES phone phreaking
As a teenager, Daniel played with phone phreaking, described as hacking phones.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“as a teenager he loved to play with phone phreaking”
Person
person:daniel_beckwitt
Also: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter, ECE Hacker, Skunkworks
Person profiled in the episode who mined and traded Bitcoin, presented at hacker conferences, researched hard-drive destruction, and built underground tunnels.
Person profiled in the episode who mined and traded Bitcoin, presented at hacker conferences, researched hard-drive destruction, and built underground tunnels.
“This story is about a young man named Daniel Beckwitt.”
“my handle’s Skunkworks”
“I’m 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter and today I’m giving a talk on DIY nuke-proofing.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | phone phreaking | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | Bitcoin mining | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | Bitcoin | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | DEF CON | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | thermite | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | Hard-drive destruction | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | hard-drive anti-forensics | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | ShmooCon | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | key-logger | Uncertain | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | Wi-Fi | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | USES | VPN | Explicit | 39 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Askia Khafra | Explicit | 39 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Douglas Hart | Explicit | 39 |
Daniel Beckwitt USES phone phreaking
As a teenager, Daniel played with phone phreaking, described as hacking phones.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“as a teenager he loved to play with phone phreaking”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Bitcoin mining
Daniel mined Bitcoin while he was at university.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“Daniel started mining Bitcoin”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Bitcoin
Daniel used Bitcoin by mining it and later trading it.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he started trading it like stocks to try to get more”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH DEF CON
Daniel traveled to Las Vegas to give a Bitcoin talk at DEF CON, using the handle Skunkworks.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“travel to Las Vegas, Nevada and give a talk about Bitcoin at Defcon”
Daniel Beckwitt USES thermite
Daniel used thermite in repeated experiments to destroy hard drives.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he placed the hard drive in the dug-out pit, added the thermite on top of it”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Hard-drive destruction
Daniel developed and demonstrated methods for physically destroying hard drives as part of the Shmoocon challenge.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he won the prize; free tickets to Shmoocon”
Daniel Beckwitt USES hard-drive anti-forensics
Daniel presented his work under the title “hard drive anti-forensics.”
Explicit Confidence 99% · Daniel Beckwitt EP 39 Details
“today I’m going to be talking to you about hard drive anti-forensics”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH ShmooCon
Daniel won access to Shmoocon and presented his hard-drive-destruction research there.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he got to present [00:15:00] his entire experimentation process on how he did it at Shmoocon 2012”
Daniel Beckwitt USES key-logger
Daniel allegedly placed a physical key-logger on a professor’s computer and used it to obtain access to the professor’s email.
Uncertain Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“He put a key-logger on the professor’s computer”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Wi-Fi
Daniel installed Wi-Fi in the underground tunnels for Askia and for the tunnel living space.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“He rigged it up with WiFi and brought a TV down there”
Daniel Beckwitt USES VPN
Daniel configured the tunnel Wi-Fi through a VPN so Askia would believe he was in Virginia.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“Daniel provided WiFi but he set the WiFi up with a VPN”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH Askia Khafra
Askia worked for Daniel digging and expanding the underground tunnels; the episode presents this association as part of the account of the fatal fire.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“A twenty-year old man named Askia Khafra”
“Askia got to work digging”
Douglas Hart ASSOCIATED_WITH Daniel Beckwitt
Douglas worked with Daniel digging and expanding the tunnels for about six months.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“Douglas and his dog worked down in the tunnels, digging out more space and expanding their reach for about six months”