How to be a cybercriminal | Brett Johnson and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secret Service for building the the first organized cybercrime community called ShadowCrew, which was the precursor to today's darknet and darknet markets.
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[@octaviodovalle6550]

What’s funny is that a lot of the aspects of crime that need to be in line for all the different players with unique skills and trust needed. The same things are needed to conduct legit business

[@nicolejirtle7706]

It reminds me of The Wire..which, imo, is still the best show that’s ever been on television.

[@BeyondSorrowYYY]

@@nicolejirtle7706 I’ve heard that from so many people now. That’s it, I’ll finally watch it xD

[@jn1540]

That's because it is business. Just one that's not sanctioned or legal. Real businesses do shady shit too, (many) just try to keep it in a legal white or at most grey area, but even then you have huge businesses like HKBC and World Bank flat out laundering money, and companies like AIG, VW, and Perdue blatantly committing fraud, and breaking financial laws.

[@megumi_0]

this one definitely got shadow banned by youtube, how does it only have 26k views

[@TimCaruso26]

I really enjoyed this guest. Thanks lex!

[@whasappme6556]

Thanks~~~~

[@UKLady]

IRC and ICQ? Those bring back some memories! 🌼

[@MikeyD0]

Bruh I forgot all about icq I haven’t heard that in like 20+ years that brings back some serious memories!

[@UKLady]

@@MikeyD0 do you still hear the EHH OHH sound?

[@MikeyD0]

@@UKLady haha nah my memory isn’t that good but I remember talking to my first “girlfriends” on there because I was too scared to talk to them in person 😂 I was prob like 10 or something

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

Tech boomer moment

[@dveee4849]

Man I just wanna be able to hack back into my old email accounts

[@geekertheseeker]

This guest is so unreal..🔥

[@russianp.vladimirputin2762]

Hope his life history call the attention of some ,Directors of films 🎥 🎞 would awesome 👌 to see this in the big screen 📺

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[@astbrnrd]

🤔 6:44 so trust can be given to someone you haven't physically met? Interesting amalgamation of emotiinal equivalence to the word "trust", maybe a modifier needs to make it into webster's or Wikipedia so they could be used better 😉👍😊

[@zozoartstudio4727]

This is crazy

[@RB-bz1th]

The real John Connor!

[@nikolamarinkov2638]

Funny business we call it 🚼

[@morrisgreg2176]

How is he not in jail? what

[@bizy7133]

Cause everything he says is a load of crap 🤣

[@davidblaske6911]

So whoever figures out that murder case must be smart, in the event a man who fakes his own death then dies.

[@darrenkendrick1658]

Dude kinda sounds like Dave Ramsey

[@alocinotasor]

"One return every 6 minutes." Sounds like BS. Entering the data manually. OMG! Sounds like a lot of work.

[@bizy7133]

Mate i was literally laughing threw the whole thing 🤣 never heard so must bs in my life honestlyy 🤣

[@alocinotasor]

@@bizy7133 Lex is young and naive. But I still love him.

[@elise9537]

​@@alocinotasor he is not that young...but he likes himself nauve. the guy is probably telling semitruths.

[@elise9537]

​@@bizy7133 why do you think he is doing it ?

[@HoneyHexaComb]

No honor amongst thieves. 😂 lol

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:00 'How to be a cybercriminal' - Very easy. Just go online and make a couple of comments which threaten the potentials for wars and you'll immediately be a criminal with a huge price on your head.

[@lovecodwaw]

Ha yea i was the 420'th 👍 sweeet

[@culturehorse]

Remarkable account. But don't understand: Youre have merch sent to your physical drop off mailing address to sell on ebay or wherever via illegal transactions which is a direct lead to your operation. How did he order up Dell computers with forged/stolen data yet not get visited by law enforcement for wire fraud? Etc.

[@MikeyD0]

Fake identities bruh. Plus companies couldn’t track transactions well in the earlier days. I “found” a bunch of bitcoin in its beginning and never got caught for “finding” it. Just gotta be sneaky sneaky and maybe a bit lucky

[@culturehorse]

@@MikeyD0 hi thx interesting. cheers

[@Ryan-xh7pe]

3rd

[@1down12go]

4th

[@lee2]

5th

[@jeffaguiar8970]

1st

[@nolangutierrez9572]

What an awful person

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