Hotline Hacked Vol. 7
A collection of calls, including an extremely wholesome story about a hacked internet contest and an electric guitar that changed a caller's life. Hotline Hacked is brought to you by DeleteMe. Take ...
28 Nov 20241h 5min
A Bot Made a Memecoin Worth Almost a Billion Dollars + McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Redux + Apple Bug Bounties
A chatty chat in which we discuss the Infinite Backrooms and the extremely profitable shock-meme-cult it spurred, a big update in the McDonald's ice cream machine right to repair story, Apple Bug Boun...
15 Nov 20241h 4min
Unmasking a Cybercriminal With Open Source Intelligence
We wanted to know: How was USDoD, the hacker behind major data breaches, unmasked? On this episode, we trace his journey from infiltrating FBI-linked networks to leaking sensitive data, and hear from ...
2 Nov 202441min
Hotline Hacked Vol. 6
The whole second half of this one is one long call but trust us it's worth it. A call in show with tales of hackers getting hacked back, spoofed emails, and operating system vulnerabilities. Hotline ...
30 Okt 20241h 4min
Doxing Strangers + Mexican Cartels and Timeshare Cybercrime + Facebook’s Big Password Fine
A chatty chat episode where we discuss a Harvard research project turning Meta Ray-Bans into facial recognition hardware, an Irish court case resolution on a password breach, a live-action roleplaying...
16 Okt 202448min
Number Go Up: A Conversation with Author Zeke Faux
We think Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall is one of the best modern books about crypto. It’s a globetrotting adventure and a great piece of reporting. To celebra...
1 Okt 20241h 23min
Hotline Hacked Vol. 5
It's a five-alarm fire in the fifth instalment of our call in show. We hear from a caller who accidentally won a naval war-game by unplugging a radio, a person whose company hired someone who clearly ...
25 Sep 202443min
$10 Million in Fake AI Royalties + the 'Infinite Money Glitch' That's Just Fraud + Voter Outreach So Bad It Seemed Like Phishing
In which we discuss alleged Spotify streaming ad fraud that brought in millions, extremely poor voter outreach and an extended tangent on AI. Correction: we failed to make the "Ramen Empire" joke. O...
17 Sep 202457min
