29 min

Hit Men, Drug Traffickers: The Criminal Phone Service Hacked By Cops CYBER

    • Technology

It’s straight out of a hacking thriller: drug dealers. Murderers. Extortionists. Traffickers. Hit men. All using an encrypted network to openly talk about their illicit trades, amassing millions in messages. 
Then, like the magical hacks of a CSI cyber episode, the cops were in the network and went on the offensive.
In one of his wildest stories to date, and that’s saying something, we have the great Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox on the show this week to tell us all about his wild cybercrime scoop.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s straight out of a hacking thriller: drug dealers. Murderers. Extortionists. Traffickers. Hit men. All using an encrypted network to openly talk about their illicit trades, amassing millions in messages. 
Then, like the magical hacks of a CSI cyber episode, the cops were in the network and went on the offensive.
In one of his wildest stories to date, and that’s saying something, we have the great Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox on the show this week to tell us all about his wild cybercrime scoop.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29 min

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