Person
Jordan Harbinger
person:jordan_harbinger
Also: Harbinger, Jordan
Guest who recounts his teenage hacking, fraud, and cooperation with the FBI, and his later work in social engineering and relationship development.
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EP 56
Explicit
100%
Guest who recounts his teenage hacking, fraud, and cooperation with the FBI, and his later work in social engineering and relationship development.
“A big thank you to Jordan Harbinger for sharing his story with us.”
Jack Rhysider ·
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“I’m training them things that I learned as a teenager”
Jordan Harbinger ·
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Relationships
Claims
Jordan Harbinger
USES
bulletin board systems
As a teenager, Jordan used bulletin board systems to meet people, exchange information, and upload text files.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“what I ended up doing was going on a lot of bulletin board systems”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
phreaking
Jordan learned and practiced telephone-system hacking, which he called phreaking.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“We called it phreaking back then.”
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Jordan Harbinger
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dumpster-diving
Jordan participated in dumpster-diving with others to find electronic serial numbers.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jordan Harbinger
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Details
“we’re dumpster-diving for these electronic serial numbers”
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Jordan Harbinger
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cell phone cloning
Jordan learned how to program and clone cell phones and later said he was cloning phones.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
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“I started learning how to program cell phones”
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“cloning cell phones was really fun”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
NEC P301
Jordan says he may have used an NEC P301 to scan analog cellular channels and listen to conversations, though he is not certain which handset he had.
Uncertain
Confidence 90%
· Jordan Harbinger
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Details
“I think I had an NEC P301 or an NEC P300 or both.”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
NEC P300
Jordan says he may have used an NEC P300 to scan analog cellular channels and listen to conversations, though he is not certain which handset he had.
Uncertain
Confidence 90%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“I think I had an NEC P301 or an NEC P300 or both.”
Jordan Harbinger ·
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
analog cellular channels
Jordan scanned analog cellular channels and listened to one side of phone conversations; he presents some details of the equipment and reception uncertainly.
Uncertain
Confidence 96%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“you could get that to scan cell phone channels and you could listen to one side of the conversation”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
Ameritech handset
Jordan stole and used an Ameritech lineman's handset, attaching its alligator clips to telephone line pairs to listen to conversations.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“I saw an Ameritech handset”
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“I can listen to conversations all day in my neighborhood”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
social engineering
Jordan identified social engineering as the next step after learning from intercepted conversations and later used it to create a deceptive AOL identity.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
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Details
“the next logical step is social engineering”
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“Social engineering for the win”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
credit card fraud
Jordan used a fabricated or stolen credit-card number to order goods and later ordered pizza for his school using a credit card that was not his.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“I tried to order something small over the phone paying with a credit card and it worked”
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“I ordered pizza for the next day for my entire middle school”
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
AOL
Jordan used AOL to look for girls and participate in online chat rooms.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 56
Details
“he popped on AOL to try his luck anyway.”
Jack Rhysider ·
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Jordan Harbinger
USES
AOL Instant Messenger
Jordan used AOL Instant Messenger while posing online as a girl and interacting with men who contacted the account.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“I was meeting girls on AOL instant messenger”
Jordan Harbinger ·
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“I made a screenname on AOL that sounded really girly”
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online predator investigation
INVOLVES
Jordan Harbinger
The investigation involved Jordan supplying chat transcripts, baiting suspected predators into conversations, and handing chats off to investigators.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“I had their screennames so I could easily go and get them and bait them into a chat.”
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
DEVELOPED_BY
Jordan Harbinger
Jordan says the idea for The Jordan Harbinger Show grew out of his work on networking, sales, and relationship development.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jordan Harbinger
EP 56
Details
“That was the genesis of me starting The Jordan Harbinger Show”
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