118: Hot Swaps
Darknet Diaries31 Touko 2022

118: Hot Swaps

This is the story of Joseph Harris (https://twitter.com/akad0c). When he was a young teen he got involved with stealing video game accounts and selling them for money. This set him on a course where he flew higher and higher until he got burned.


Joseph sometimes demonstrates vulnerabilities he finds on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcuF5Zx6BiYmwnS-CiRAng.


Listen to episode 112 “Dirty Coms” to hear more about what goes on in the communities Joseph was involed with.


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