Who Stole the NSA's Top Secret Hacking Tools?🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 53: Shadow Brokers

In highschool, they took my internet access away on my account so i made a kernel level bootloader that would bypass the schools login system and would boot the native windows xp at the time. I was better at c++ than the teacher and often times i was just sitting in class playing counter strike 1.6. I found a vulnerability in the schools CISCO network and how it was tied in to AERIES software that the teachers used to keep grades. There was a default login and password that would allow me to get passed the firewall and into the actual login page. The school computer lab had a program that was essentially a key logger that would log the students typing assignments to judge accuracy of the students typing. I Found the master cd copy of that program with the master license one day and cloned it. I went and installed that program on the economics teachers pc and waited for him to login to ARIES. I logged in and changed everyones grades in ARIES and then logged into his user account wich as admin for the network and i turned my interent access back on and gave myself admin privelages. I only got caught because i was playing counter strike in class one day on the schools video editing pc and i was the only one who could have done it. I was young and stupid. I didnt get to graduate on stage and I lost my college scholarship because of it. I gave up programming and went to college for chemistry. I probably would have gotten in real trouble had i not matured and gave that stuff up.

The person who deserves real recognition is whoevers in charge of naming the NSA's tools. Deity bounce? Fkn awesome

Doing my coding final and saw this pop up. I did my first CTF this year. I have learned alot from this channel. Thank you for the community.

Your podcast is music to my ears , don't ever stop this series FREAKING "NEVER"

When I first stumbled upon this channel I was like "yeah what is this gonna do for me when I listen to the podcast every other week" but man you put out so many banger episodes like this that are well worth listening again to. Either they're interesting/suspenseful/entertaining enough on their own or we know things now that put a couple episodes in another context retroactively.

People need to understand that literally the only difference between a government and a street gang is membership numbers.

The information and the way it's presented on this channel is very impressive and compelling to say the least. Well done

These episodes/stories are fantastic to listen to. Reminds me of early 70's Documentaries and interviews....but....This guy believe it or not is better. He expands beyond the content and establishes a base layer, then delves deeper.

Always Christmas, when a new episode drops. Keep up the great work Jack!

Dirty grandpa. Prerty spot on. We should've listened to them.....

I listen to this on Google Podcasts when showering. There's soooooo much more on here. OMG this is so great. Thank you so much Jack! Subbed, Liked, and Shared up!

New to the channel and am absolutely loving it! I’m definitely learning a lot too as I have no computer nerd skills to speak of but I’m learning! 🤙

This is the second best pod I've picked up this year. Binged every ep over the last few week. Great work, Jack. Keep it up!

anyone who thinks the NSA isn’t on the offensive is insane. Cmon, we all know the best defense is offense…

This podcast is fantastic. I’ve learned so much!

This is my fave episode by far. Great stuff man

i had a nightmare the other night that quantum computers had finally cracked all encryption and all the bad actors had sprung into action decrypting all the encrypted data they had collected and stored for years

One of the best podcast ever. Keep it up!

Love this stuff. Keep 'em coming.

Oh, Jachary. Outstanding content. Thank you, dude. 😊