A journalist shares the story of a young hacker who accessed the Twitter feed of his school principal. Initially hesitant to publish the story, the journalist eventually saw it as a tale of a unique, intelligent student failed by the public school system.
The podcast discusses the importance of responsible disclosure in cybersecurity and the potentially negative consequences of not properly disclosing vulnerabilities.
A man claims that an online scammer who was caught and arrested in 2016 can recover a lost Bitcoin private key worth almost a million dollars if he finds the notebook he wrote it down in five years ago.
The speaker talks about how he perpetrated a series of hacks when he was in high school. This included sending spoofed emails using the principal's email address, and spreading fake blogs. Although these actions were generally harmless, he did get in trouble at school.
Anonymous is a collection of people with some hackers involved in it, along with reporters and people in the media who were interested in getting the inside scoop on things. Reporters can have a complicated relationship with Anonymous, and the internet allows people to make up stories easily.