The Kids Who Hacked The CIA

[@thestomache]

imagine being a 15 year old, smoking some weed and be like "I'm gonna prank call the head of the CIA and ask for five trillion dollars"

[@username8644]

The weed part is cringe, but everything else is respectable.

[@0xmichiru]

The weed part is based. Get over yourself@@username8644

[@kaneqost]

​@@username8644Weed is neutral. But it makes the situation wayyyyy funnier

[@Yayashiii]

I agree, the weed part is funny AF. ​@@kaneqost

[@Chipsandsalsa183]

​@@username8644weed is cringe? How about using cringe is cringe, how old are you? Jfc.

[@GoldenBlue...]

while kids hack the cia, my 24 year old ass tries to learn fl studio

[@a-google-user07]

lol edit: this comment had 24 likes when i commented dayum

[@robiaster]

mood

[@kaiyuVFX]

true true 😂

[@dominicaeashy]

LMAO

[@des5130]

Bruh 😭😭😭

[@nikanj]

Whether you believe what the did was right or wrong you can't deny they had good intentions. Neither of them were in it for personal gain, in fact, they had everything to lose.

[@jtgd]

Doubt they legitimately cared. It was likely for clout and attention

[@toptohyekoms]

Yeah they cheat through shortcuts to achieve their good intentions

[@tyronebrown3837]

Maybe But deleting college debt is only good nothing bad happens from that​@@jtgd

[@MRJMXHD]

Leaking the details of 20,000 federal employees was wrong. I don't care about the head of the FBI or CIA getting messed with, but leaking employees details is fucked up. They're just lower ranked officers following orders.

[@Xezian]

@@MRJMXHDyeah and if it's wrong for their information to be stolen and given out to others they don't want having that information it's wrong for the federal government to do the same to its citizens or the citizens of foreign countries. They are complicit in helping this surveillance state we live in operate, any one of them could take actions against it like Snowden did, but they don't. If you're actively complicit with evil actions, it doesn't matter if you were "just following orders", you are helping this type of evil prevail and you are partially responsible. Every person has the power to change the world around them and make a difference in it, the fact they don't use theirs to help oppose this surveillance state especially when they're in a much better position to than most people, is all on them. They reaped what they sowed.

[@herculesmwp7983]

one of my favorite quotes "Trust no one, assume everyone will betray you and you will never be disappointed"

[@hdjt-p9901]

That’s no way to live

[@null-0x]

A quote by Peter Parker from Spider-Man: No Way Home - "Expect disappointment, you'll never be disappointed!"

[@bakadar2482]

@@hdjt-p9901if you think that way go ahead and live like that but when time comes you’ll understand that that’s the only way to live

[@creazytinr]

@@hdjt-p9901 yes always be naive and forgive people 🤡

[@strictlydonotcare2421]

Unfortunately that’s a very lonely way to live, and we are social creatures. Better yet, surround yourself with good people, don’t be an bad person yourself, have a good support network and maybe you won’t need to be paranoid

[@x0rn312]

That initial phone call really cracks me up.... it's so juvenile yet so perfect

[@louisenichols6825]

Calling and saying "You're an f-ing loser" to a random person is just mean, but saying to the head of the CIA is amazing.

[@oliviasooooksk]

I honestly like a lot of his comments over the phone lol.

[@hellonomasonto]

I laughed so hard, I rewinded it 🤣🤣. And he demanded 5 trillion dollars 😆. He was probably high as a kite.

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@projectsspecial9224]

That was just plainly asking for it! Kharma 😅

[@coolepic519]

I love how despite it being horrible, his first idea was to just destroy student loan debts, thats great

[@Amuta5]

That alone makes him stand out

[@sashalink1886]

You should watch Mr Robot

[@errantnomad]

@JohnMarston-sf1vk they do not need hundreds of thousands of dollars PER STUDENT to accomplish what you mentioned. Stop bootlicking.

[@Adrianvargas23]

@JohnMarston-sf1vklet’s be fr government will just print more money

[@Internetpimp]

⁠@JohnMarston-sf1vkdo you have any idea how much money those universities and colleges bring in every single year??? It’s in the billions and that’s before state/federal funding, donations and sponsors. They continue to pay their employees shit despite how much money is brought in, our curriculum has been the same for the past 30 years but yet the rate of tuition inflation rises by 8% a year??? Yes I do agree they need to make money for everything to function, but they’re creating generational slaves at this point.

[@laavanya5206]

“The worst part of betrayal is that it doesn’t come from an enemy”

[@sachixoxo]

exactly? like, his friend turned him in- thats cruel, tho the hacker wasnt doing a great job, but damn..friend.

[@sulisueeeeee0553]

​@@sachixoxoU don't seem to understand people will literally sell out their own families for money. In this case, the "friend" knew he will get a reward (even though CIA have been caught multiple times not paying the reward) but ig the saying is true don't trust any1

[@sachixoxo]

@@sulisueeeeee0553 true..and the reality, that is THIS, just sucks, people get blindfolded when it comes to their own comfort.

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@killskill9391]

@@sulisueeeeee0553I don’t know. Being aware of the fact that you’re friend is responsible for all of the chaos… even though you may find it justified, can lead to a great amount of guilt building up. Your keeping a secret that could be responsible for people’s deaths. (Think of the leaked FBI-agents. Some of them may have been undercover) That’s not something everyone would want to handle. Or should. Or could.

[@vavra222]

Nothing like stumbling across a channel with insane production quality at 3am, i dont have to go to sleep any time soon and i am fucking hooked.

[@fraxizztv6433]

It's not a fucking stream, lmao

[@LolPlove]

These teenagers probably are 100x cleaner than the gov. They just wanted to help shape a world that they wanted to live in.

[@DeePsway-nu2mc]

10Million x times cleaner

[@SaltyCado]

Use your brains. They had to learn how to do this somehow, you can even watch interviews of the governments best hackers and you legit cannot learn to hack without being unethical. You gotta start somewhere when it comes to hacking and they certainly didn't learn to do this on the government. Everyone loves to be a hero even if they do just as bad as shit as the ones they're taking down ​@@DeePsway-nu2mc

[@MeganMegandaughter]

5 trillion times cleaner

[@sharondsouza8054]

by the way he spoke, I don't think he wanted anything to do with shaping the world!!! lol this is the dumbest take!!! he just wanted money and to feel cool or something... typical mindless teenage brats. I don't know what his parents were doing when he was out there doing substance abuse! parents like these make kids like these! a sad reality. Good he is behind bars, will learn how the world works, and how he isn't the main character. Arrogance always shows you your place! Hope once he is released he pays all the money on that note the parents should also slave themselves to recover that money!

[@deezhuevitos]

@@sharondsouza8054🥾👅

[@isaacwatanabe9599]

I find it absolutely hilarious that some random nerd sitting in his bedroom can hack a whole government. Like how do they expect to maintain cyber security against their enemies when they cant fend off a few computer savvy kids?

[@anarchy_79]

It's like they say in IT- when everything works, management wonders what they even keep sysadmins around for. When things break they wonder why they keep sysadmins around if things break anyway...

[@JenMarco]

They don’t have enemies. They’re the terrorists that they tell us about

[@Praisethesunson]

It's almost like it's just a lie used to justify spying on you

[@PotatoChipse]

They should be rewarded 😂

[@moreproblematic]

The 2000s were a pretty weird time for cybersecurity. It was becoming increasingly better supported and understood, but you were still coming out of a relative degree of innocence and naivete due to how recent it all was. Laws had yet to fully catch up, security practices were very much still being figured out, and generally it was just a weaker time. It's also a constant game of attack and defense, what it looks like today vs 2008 are wildly different because of this. A lot of it involved making lower level agencies (Possibly with their own rules and policies, often weaker or poorly implemented) come in line with mandatory standards and practices. It's not infallible, but it does a lot.

[@ThatMilkJuice]

I don’t understand what they’re doing is a crime when the government themselves commit the same thing.

[@virtualgambit577]

“Rules for thee, not for me”

[@whitefang2734]

Because the state does not like competition.

[@GhostSamaritan]

​@@ThatonedudeCR12956Glowies aren't democtatically elected. They regulate themselves.

[@bucketsm1639]

It’s because they don’t own a monopoly on violence. If they did - they’d be the government

[@Thecatnamedkiwi]

Do what i say, not what i do....or something like that.

[@L-Office]

moral of the story: don't get drunk when you are wanted by the CIA

[@NoobNotFoundDev]

so true, I feel sad for them

[@burger_man3129]

Correction don’t have friends if your wanted by the cia. I’ve been wanted for as long as I can remember 😂

[@perpeder4370]

@@burger_man3129cornball

[@felixhex]

Don't be wanted by the CIA, especially if you don't live in the US... The CIA absolutely did and does kill ppl

[@OGDonaldEngel]

@@burger_man3129 It probably wasn’t his friend, it was probably the government listening to the XBOX live chat lol

[@publicspeaker4009]

1:10 "he loves to smoke weed, in fact he is high right now." 🤣🤣

[@Fingernamedkid7]

Real

[@KingSloth408]

Lmaoo right I was like “…shit..same” *puts bong down*

[@mrsapplez2007]

​@@KingSloth408put mine out as I heard that and chuckled

[@Happy_Shopper]

What else is there to do on a housing estate in the West Midlands?

[@victoryeditz688]

"Founded by Cracka, who is always high"

[@kagagosimo]

kids be hacking cia while me having a hard time how to deactivate my facebook account.

[@jatin5444]

And we search that on KZbin that how to deactivate Facebook account 😂😂

[@quillistolitch925]

They made it that way on purpose 😔

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@dints]

@@highestpeeqs9532 shut the fuck up

[@lashyan]

Just don’t use it for some months, mine got deactivated because I didn’t use it

[@SBCLyricist]

Found this channel on accident a while ago an been binge watching ever since, keep it up!

[@jackwilliam2965]

The CiA director going under cover after a prank call is just hilarious 😂

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

That would happen in most high schools, Bud, not just the CIA which would get 1000s of such calls.

[@waltuhx3x3]

@@BlueBeeMCMLXI Yeah no shit lmfao but we expect the CIA to be smarter than schools. You are under every comment looking stupid as fuck LMAOO

[@mlbp2567]

Just shows how ridiculous the U.S. is

[@logictom7254]

@@mlbp2567 how is it ridiculous? he has been hacked either way so going under cover is protocol.

[@Lospollosxclips]

@@BlueBeeMCMLXItf does that even mean? That would happen to most hs?

[@fluesque]

The amount of details that is displayed from the handmade animations is crazy and often overlooked. The fitting narration is just the cherry on top.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@gixxersquid]

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[@BelmarVault]

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[@Corehcoreee]

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[@Vrahaha]

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[@smhmaxx261]

it's really interesting how cracka's passion was toward a war that is still going on to this day. i hope there will be someone like him raising so much awareness in the near future.

[@Palestineonline313]

Its a genocide made by israel against palestinians

[@sulisueeeeee0553]

On god. It's crazy there are literally millions being bombed because of Some1s greed n power. Fuck, even the US don't care about its own citizens. They will make sure they suffer just so the rich can get richer and hoard on to their wealth. CIA has been of doing illegal shit many times but power is a crazy tool.

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@Palestineonline313]

@@highestpeeqs9532 bible is changed

[@brotakig1531]

To be fair a 15 year old doesn't even know how the world works, but when you get bullied a war would remind you of your struggles I guess.

[@TshewongJukeboxx]

All i saw here was two heroes being born and they don't wear capes.

[@GuillemPoy]

This is by far the best visuals of any of your videos. I'm loving the progress!

[@HaydenEvora]

I agree! Insane! 😮❤

[@n.r.8719]

I subscribed because of this comment. Never seen another video from him but I’m glad the algorithm is working and apparently his quality has grown as well.

[@lukedzn5665]

This channel ist actually a collab between the Team of the german youtube channel Simplicissiumus and the dutch youtuber Hoog (Who is voicing this video)

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@kindofanmol]

I listened to it as a podcast and now you've tempted me to watch it again

[@lucascurley3257]

imagine being director of the CIA while previously had a drug problem so big you had 130k worth of cocaine at one point

[@mehmeh1053]

the cia helped the movement of cocaine into the US so🤷‍♂️

[@dilloncelano126]

And then going and arresting the dealers

[@ARegularOleDude]

Man some people just try to get clean and maybe he got over it you can’t just use that against him if he got clean

[@JennaRL]

That doesn't sound like a "problem" at all! 🤣

[@JerzyLasica]

@@ARegularOleDude he's got no right to present "the law" after that. he should be in prison.

[@ChRiStY4t5]

I can understand taking their electronics. House arrest. Maybe even huge fines. But prison for a kid just bc he OUTSMARTED them for so long, is bullshit.

[@AzadShahin-cu7nr]

Stupid, what are you saying, the kid hacked millions of money, it's like a bank robbery, and yet you say that a few years is so long for them just because they are kids?

[@ChRiStY4t5]

@AzadShahin-cu7nr absolutely. They do not have the capacity to forsee the ramifications of what they thought were all fun and games. Yes they knew it was wrong and it was big but their minds didn't leave the fun of the game behind the computer.

[@shanelamontagne7334]

If they didn't punish them in the confines of the law, that would leave the door open for any kid to do the same without ramifications.

[@ChRiStY4t5]

@@shanelamontagne7334 they should be punished without a doubt. Not to that extent.

[@cappingcat7660]

⁠@@AzadShahin-cu7nr sometimes people like u need to use your brain

[@wilderwentzel2662]

I tried learning coding. I have dyscalculea. These kids are the real heroes of the world. More power to them

[@henriqueribeiro9037]

"Dyscalculi is a learning disability resulting in difficulty learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, numeracy, learning how to manipulate numbers, performing mathematical calculations, and learning facts in mathematics. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as "math dyslexia", though this analogy can be misleading as they are distinct syndromes." To anyone wondering what it is.

[@SteveJackson-w5m]

@@henriqueribeiro9037is this just the scientific name for dyslexia? Or are they different?

[@hastie-y7w]

​@@SteveJackson-w5m dyslexia is typically just writing - dyscalculia is typically maths based. :)

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

I'm in the same boat. I'm hyperlexicic - been reading since before I was 3, and I'm always reading something, in a few different languages. But anything involving numbers? Forget it. I mix them up or forget them, and I've been known to write them upside down or backwards. A couple of well meaning friends tried to teach me to code back in the 90's, and it was more or less impossible. I'd love to have gone into the hard sciences, but my brain just won't math sufficiently. So now I write sci-fi instead.

[@SteveJackson-w5m]

@ thank you!

[@JoelReid]

The weakest point of privacy is the person who doesn't check on who they are talking to.

[@iAmCodeMonkey]

Yep.

[@SuperLifestream]

which is actually the 2nd weakest. the weakest point in privacy is the human element

[@phantomtec]

8:10 [SCENE] Young foreign man enters "establishment" || Romanian Pimp in RED LIGHT district is at the entrance... [PIMP] "So what you want.?" [Young Man] "Huh...um...?" [PIMP] "You want Bitch or Hoe?" [Young Man] "Wait what?" [PIMP] "Quick boy, you want Bitch or Hoe?" [SETTING] Feeling little "zesty", the young man considers the question, answering, in the hopes of not receiving a dead route... [Young Man] "Bitch please." [PIMP] "O, you in for good night boy..." I'll let everyone figure out the rest from here... and Peace "No one should limit us in the realm of possibilities. We can all play a part in innovation pressing forward." || PHANTOM TEC 2024 ||

[@engineer_gaming_221]

Funny how that's what got one of them into the CIA lead's account, by tricking tech support. Yet it's also what got one of them busted, by yapping to a friend who told on him.

[@anarchy_79]

The weakest point of privacy is your big blabbering mouth is what it is.

[@koghs]

"Not funny didn't laugh" *drone strikes your location*

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@chavalonjaimes1680]

😂😂😅😅

[@Paulina--]

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[@TomTreutlein]

Did laugh @ this though.

[@marissashantez6051]

That is funny.

[@APersonOG]

That was honestly the best transition to a sponsorship I've seen in a while...

[@whitneyyy.turn1]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Didn’t even realize it was a sponsored product until he mentioned the website. That transition was clean 😂

[@coolorphans]

No, it really wasn't. I felt cold chills knowing he was about to sponsor some crappy company selling you something you don't need. I guess I'm just not an NPC🤷‍♀

[@RedstoneMiner18]

Vanced skipped it

[@disturbance9595]

go watch pyrocynical😊

[@emelyzalez]

@@coolorphansshutup

[@Alwaysgrowing1234]

Why are you not on Netflix yet? Dude your documentaries are on point! Mad respect

[@kee5699]

Their content wouldn't be publicly available.

[@Sk8forsocks]

because he gets most of his shit wrong, so why would netflix sponsor obvious hit piece fake stuff?

[@kee5699]

@@Sk8forsocks source? You? You know they list their sources in the description, right?

[@kee5699]

@@Sk8forsocks also, do you think Netflix doesn't get their stuff wrong?

[@Sk8forsocks]

@@kee5699 Well the fact is that this kid "D3f4ult" never did much of what he claimed he did. The video literally just uses his own testimony as a credible source which is one of the sources in the description. If you google the animal suffering thing in Denmark then nothing pops up with his name and no government site was ever hacked(i live in Denmark). Actually there was only proof that it was anonymous that had hacked some sites as evidenced by the "guy fawkes" mask symbol they use that was on the defaced sites. The kid lied end of story. Only thing that was real is that he sim-swapped Brennans phone and got into his accounts and leaked database which he got 5 years for.

[@sameershaik3907]

I love these kids man, their love for humanity and their wish to be part of ending human suffering and animal suffering is truly commendable

[@Cute_Allienya]

Ew he'll no

[@idreamofabikeeveryday]

@@Cute_Allienya tf u mean "ew hell no" do you love seeing humans and animals suffer or what?

[@SupercellularChaos]

Agreed. Even if they made a lot of big mistakes.

[@Idk23452]

Uhhh, yall know he went from shutting down animal abuse stuff to putting private info of 26,000 people to the public that did like nothing? He went from a white top hacker to a black top hacker.

[@Sk8forsocks]

This video is all a lie. I looked on the site of the hacker "d4fault" and its just self written anecdotal evidence. Theres literally nothing to back up his claims on many of these things besides his own testimony. For example , the whole segment about bestiality is just purely wrong. No danish government website was ever taken down as he claimed. In 2015 it was in fact anonymous who took down some of the bestiality websites that is proven cause they literally defaced the sites with the anonymous logo under the operation name OpNullDenmark . The problem was already big and talked about in Denmark and his unproven "hacks" certainly didnt have any affect on the ban decision. But of course making a video making this kid seem like some hero gets more views so alright.

[@sh9019]

So the director of intelligence can lie under oath and not get sentenced to prison but a couple kids who embarrassed the government are? This place is an actual sick joke

[@cheery-hex]

It is the matrix.

[@CuntillaDeville]

Twisted isn’t it?

[@CalmityCasuality]

they are both in the wrong, the kids are just leaning more to the evil side

[@PissyYonkyy]

They're evil and the CIA is not? ​@@CalmityCasuality

[@bbpanzu213]

@@CalmityCasuality the government bombs brown kids in the middle east and a teen hacker virtually relieved thousands of people from debt.

[@md.anisulislam6402]

12:42 He exposed the fact that the American government was invloved in the suffering of Gaza's people. This is a fact which the American government denied hardly and now they got exposed hard. I got respect for him as he got the balls to do it.

[@Nothingxxx]

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[@milk.choccie]

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[@cam5816]

What was exposed exactly?

[@md.anisulislam6402]

@@cam5816 My man if you don't understand it after reading the above comment then you don't need to know.

[@cam5816]

@@md.anisulislam6402 No I mean what did they reveal that the US was doing? I know the US was (and still is most definitely) illegally spying even on their own citizens and passing that information off to Israel but what else did they expose with this hack

[@elixirIsadrug-b2v]

The fact that he was betrayed by a friend instead of being found out is kinda sad

[@mustafaarif9543]

Will never understand how public sentiments against hackers like these is ever negative. Instead of praising them of their public service and bravery media tries to show them as evil traitors. Just doesn’t make sense to me

[@Seasniffer1969]

Project mockingbird

[@axel665]

Maybe because those same hacks can be used by enemy countries

[@eddieprieto6511]

​@@axel665Then their dumbasses shouldn't have put that out on the news so everyone knows they got hacked

[@axel665]

@@eddieprieto6511 it was published in wikileaks so everyone would knew and this is what hackers want exactly news on govt secreat dealings

[@burichan5069]

the media is basically another arm of the government

[@swerpmachine8261]

The fact that two teenagers are raided by internationally regarded law enforcement globally for the embarrassment of a top-tier federal agent, then given years in a juvinile detention center and federal prison respectively, shows just how insecure the Criminal justice system in the US is.

[@swerpmachine8261]

Imaging the phone call John Brennan gave to the (assumed) NCA, about a top tier, anonymous hacker, dangerous to the national security of the United States and its allies. And it is a high as hell teenager.

[@sulisueeeeee0553]

They have been proved to be doing illegal sh*t relentlessly times but power is a crazy tool.

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

You have the mind of a child.

[@poogle9368]

Hard to cover all bases when you have 500 of them globally and are a massive police state with 25% of the worlds incacerated population despite being only 2% of global population. Also hard to convince anyone both intelligent and good to work for you if you are openly doing that.

[@Deidara701]

I love how the interviewer’s reaction was more surprised by the fact that default smoked pop over the fact he was potentially still a teenager

[@BostYT]

That was cracka not default

[@JohnSmithThe666th]

And d3f4ult wasn't even a member of CWA. I have refrained from even watching this video since it was released. I am a former teammate of Justin and long knew who he was prior to his arrest. He is formerly known as th3b1gw0rm but always claimed otherwise despite asking our leader to stay at his ranking. He had 0 skill. Literally zero except being a skid. A script kiddie, someone who uses someone else's work basically

[@felixhex]

​@@JohnSmithThe666thWell, some 'leaders' in the movement have virtually 0 technical skills, looks like not much changed

[@JohnSmithThe666th]

@@felixhex He was never a leader, but I got your air quotes. He tried to be, but failed miserably. He was not a leader of any movement but tried to place himself as such because of his ego, which is, I assume, the reason he lied to me about a race war in a federal prison camp, which simply just doesn't happen. He was arrested for no hack, he was indicted for just harassing the Miami cops, which he claimed to be there at the time, even to his friends, but was in Carolina. He visited, and stayed there with his girlfriend at the time, but he did his most to continue with his lies, and everyone does have hate for him that worked with him at the time. I pitied him about a year after him getting out and told him the name of the cofounder that died. Just because even though he was an idiot, he was his friend at some point and deserved to know, in my view.

[@felixhex]

@@JohnSmithThe666th reminds me of someone, both with the knowledge and the ego thing, the race war thing is just fucking stupid, why would someone believe that😂 But no, honestly, many people who make themselves out to be leaders are not only bad at what they're doing, actually, as well as only being there for their own self-aggrandizing.... I hate people like that

[@ph0b0x92]

The quality end effort put into these videos deserve an award. Thanks.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

7:42 _"Animal sex tourism"_ is a sentence I never want to hear again in my life.

[@RainnRivers]

You mean a phrase.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@RainnRivers No, I mean a permutation of words that simply shouldn't exist, ever.

[@Christian-q5e]

Libs 😍

[@Sk8forsocks]

This video is all a lie. I looked on the site of the hacker "d4fault" and its just self written anecdotal evidence. Theres literally nothing to back up his claims on many of these things besides his own testimony. For example , the whole segment about bestiality is just purely wrong. No danish government website was ever taken down as he claimed. In 2015 it was in fact anonymous who took down some of the bestiality websites that is proven cause they literally defaced the sites with the anonymous logo under the operation name OpNullDenmark . The problem was already big and talked about in Denmark and his unproven "hacks" certainly didnt have any affect on the ban decision.

[@burger_man3129]

Dude I accidentally skipped forward in the video and as I go to grab my remote to rewind this plays on the loudspeakers 😭

[@unknownperson7708]

the storytelling with animations is actually insane. huge props to you man great video

[@brawlkiller10]

True

[@gordonramslay9955]

This 15 year old committed some of the craziest hacking crimes, meanwhile I’m almost 18 and don’t know how to save a Word document 😭

[@anasreza782]

Ctrl + S 😂

[@Tom-ku1ep]

no flex but I can program some shit

[@lkmnlhkm467]

can you at least read an analog clock?

[@kkTeaz]

​@@Tom-ku1epI could program when I was 9, not a flex at all though, trust.

[@عكرمةهاني-ر6غ]

what is word document ? lol

[@therealemtothebee]

5:06 i'm sorry but why was there just a "delete all" button for $9.4m worth of student debt 😭😭

[@Frostism]

😭

[@mbeecher9921]

There wasn't. It's just rm -f -R

[@null-0x]

The video creators just abstracted out the technical details for the normal people. There isn't any "Delete All" button. The kid in the interview explained it better.

[@farahz9552]

These kids have more heart and soul than the entire CIA combined

[@CJ1776]

The cia tortures children and turns them into mind control slaves. They own all of americas elite... Ceos, bankers, movie and music stars... They are a sub company of the illuminati...

[@Sk8forsocks]

Well the fact is that this kid "D3f4ult" never did much of what he claimed he did. The video literally just uses his own testimony as a credible source. If you google the animal suffering thing in Denmark then nothing pops up with his name and no government site was ever hacked, only proof that anonymous had hacked some sites pops up as evidence which is ironic. The kid lied end of story.

[@connormacclellan3324]

@@Sk8forsocksthey say in the video that the news associated the hacks with anonymous. You think he would’ve gotten 5 years if he didn’t do any of that stuff? Cmon man you’re so skeptical it’s a buzzkill. Kids a badass

[@Sk8forsocks]

@@connormacclellan3324 the documents are publicly online, he got 5 years for breaching the CIA guys account and leaking the data. Kid was not a badass lmao. also did you read my comment? The actual websites that was hacked was DEFACED WITH THE ANONYMOUS LOGO lmao.

[@Sk8forsocks]

@@connormacclellan3324 he got 5 years for leaking the data not any of the other stuff. The only verifiable thing was that he was involved in leaking the data and gaining access to the CIA directors account. Also the hacked websites was defaced with the literal guy fawkes anonymous logo. Kid literally just lied, im not being a buzzkill you're falling for the lies of a kid who now just promotes crypto on twitter all day lmao.

[@tokensupreme684]

It’s not about the level of crime but the level of embarrassment perceived by authority that dictates the punishment. The most fragile thing is the ego of those in power.

[@steve7814]

I agree, I would add that its not just about the ego of individual in power. But its also about the face of an institution in power. Posturing is resource relied upon heavily for displaying power. So when weakness and vulnerability is revealed in an institution that relies on its image of power. It causes said institution to have extreme condemning response as a display to refortify its image of powerfulness.

[@raackketeerr4812]

💯😊

[@username8644]

Yeah, imagine if they actually went out and congratulated the hackers for doing them a service. Then I'm sure more people would try to hack for them to better our security. Instead they punish these people which just causes more hackers to be against them. Yes, punish those who are a threat and directly against us, but acknowledge those helping us.

[@genericamerican7574]

@@username8644 why did the hacker’s not try to offer their services in a normal manner? That’s like saying you’ll hire the guy who broke into your house to do security. Just because you’re good at breaking into something doesn’t mean you’re going to be good at securing that something. Sending someone a scam link is just sending someone a scam link.

[@TBAYMenace]

"All day, everyday" lmao, my man. Stoned as hell causing mayhem on the internet. Brilliant!

[@Dylan-uz6df]

L friend for ratting him out tbh

[@DivineZinc]

fr bro could have been good

[@minartson]

Bro thinks he is a hero for reporting

[@thoth539]

We can’t be entirely certain if his friend was the one who ratted him out, but admittedly, the coincidence is quite strong.

[@nikolajhokland]

Currently writing a 20-page essay on the topic of face recognition software used in danish public survaillence. Suddenly, it's really understandable why so many civilrights movements fear it, while government officials and politicians support the idea. As a dane, it worries me that the danish government did'nt set legal boundaries for use of face recognition, even after the AI-Act in the EU.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Just look at china. Dissidents caught daily from their taobao account. From their own phone and cctv in their local place

[@propagandapanda_]

When someone steal your Face data from a gov server, you are screwed. They have you Face, so they will have you. And Deepsfakes are only the beginning.

[@kelzstackz4503]

I think we need to keep a watch on the canine diddlers 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

[@wildpleasureswildpleasures2355]

It seems like the Danish government had it's hands full in legalizing and profiting from animals sex dongeons..

[@anonwithamnesia]

That is what happens when you take away the beastility😂

[@trystankirkley5829]

This channel has hands down become one of my favorites, the effort, the story telling, and the visuals are all done so well!

[@EEEEEEEE]

E‎ ‎

[@TheWandererGhost]

​@@EEEEEEEE E

[@Oldaccount405]

True

[@anonymousocsec2791]

Look harder lol

[@highestpeeqs9532]

Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back.

[@anarchy_79]

"He never logs in to his own WI-FI" might be the most hacker thing I've ever heard

[@termitethrasher6809]

This was a lie. D3f4ult started running around spreading lies to make him seem like some super leet hacker. He was never in CWA and he never worked with them. All he done was beg and make harassing phone calls to Brennan. D3f4ult has been abusing the fact the US government mistakenly named him as a CWA member to try garner attention for himself. He had terrible OpSec and the whole satellite dish thing was made up. He logged into his Twitter and Facebook with his home IP.

[@DL-fl5ul]

The most concerning thing of all this is that the head of the CIA is still using AOL in 2019. That alone tells me that he is highly highly incapable of being an intelligence head. Only people that use AOL are 60+ year olds that don't know how to open up an email

[@adamcoe]

not to mention, how did the Dairy Queen people not realize the insane amount of data they must have been using. if anything that's the miracle to me, this kid could have been brought down by some overzealous Blizzard jockey

[@untitled_stocks]

this is the true definition of the people that are close to you hurt you more than your enemies.

[@CalandrasLore]

It feels like I just watched a whole action movie. Probably one of my favourite documentary videos I've seen.

[@28dudley]

Its crazy to me that these crimes gets u longer sentences in jail than some rapists…fucked up system

[@W910o2]

These hackers get a high chance into working for the CIA themselves. The reason rapist isn’t even valued much more of a crime than murders is because if they did that than they would be outing themselves which many officials and higher ups do.

[@ragnarok4241]

Cause u dont need any special ability to rape someone while hacking government facilities does.

[@jaeminthecreator2877]

@@W910o2so they don’t give rapists higher sentences because the people making the laws are child molesters themselves? Horrible

[@leaheames8995]

@@W910o2this is why child predators get such lenient sentences.

[@Mehhl81]

You can see examples of this everywhere. Anytime someone challenges 'the system' they're treated horrible. Julian Assange for example.

[@spikejohnson6739]

Every hacker bro has a "i had a hard drive with 50 bitcoin on it. But it got lost when my dads bothers, sisters, cousins, dog chewed it up and I lost the data" story they always tell other people.

[@mo-s-]

this is also why you always make backups

[@RichardBaran]

I had a few (maybe 3) BTC from idk 2010, it didn't mean much back then. So there wasn't really a reason to freak out about losing them.

[@4n4Queen]

​@@RichardBaranthat still some money tho , i heard about Bitcoin when i was a kid , i think i was 17/16 , at that time , you can mine it in the application. Pretty regret didn't do it tho. At that time no one know at what price does Bitcoin gonna skyrocket to. Anyone with any browser or any laptop can mine it. Even tho you got potatoes pc or laptop.

[@shlumhum4912]

@@4n4Queen My friend was showing me the dark web markets and how to buy bitcoin when it was $300 per coin... We were unaware teens back then, spending hundreds of thousands in todays money :/

[@mishXY]

@@4n4Queen yeah I had approx. 14 btc around the time when bitcoins were a couple of dollars, I only used it for buying "exotic goods" on tor, I always loved how I would get free stuff for letting my PC run over night. so when I lost my keys to the account, because of drive failure I was only upset about the media I have lost. 😂 I used to be kinda pissed off when the BTC price went off the charts, but tbh - I probably would've already sold them at 20$ each back then, as I didn't expect that to go anywhere ^^

[@mserof]

“So what’s your background” “I smoke pot. All day, everyday”

[@ThinkerYT]

Nah man this is the best channel on KZbin at the time. This is wild. Unbelievable quality.

[@עידואברהם-ע5ס]

you are also

[@VonFNBR]

Coming from a verified is pretty cool

[@keekermojo]

While in HS, my language arts teacher moved here from Texas and told us about how her son was on a government watch list. When he was younger, he "dabbled" in code and actually gained access past a government firewall and they had letters in the mail stating what he did and someone show up asking him to knock it tf off. I remember her talking about how scared she was bc her son did it unintentionally but eventually getting good laughs out of it as a family story

[@VenomMalware]

Sounds like a bs story you don't "accidently" do that and if the feds are knocking for you breaking into anything of theirs it's not a "knock it off" it's a "get on the ground and put your hand on your head".

[@eyum1111]

That’s actually crazy

[@Azaria80]

@@eyum1111ikr this just shows how beat down the American government cyber security really is tbh I would’ve hired the kid instead.

[@ApolloAlgo]

you talking about my aunt Irizarry? Lol

[@Later_Nerd]

Big fan of Darknet Diaries. So glad to have found this channel. The collabs are amazing.

[@mick6247]

I love how this kid hacked into a college,and the first thing he did remove the student loans

[@mick6247]

@@projectsspecial9224 fr bro had potential he was smart

[@W910o2]

@@projectsspecial9224Many of these hackers get job offers for the CIA themselves so he didn’t lose anything. And what your saying is that we keep government fking us over without any sort of punishment

[@W910o2]

@@projectsspecial9224so many lives are fked over because of student loans there is no fking reason why IT SHOULD GO OVER 100k IN STUDENT LOANS the cost of education is crazy and for simple degrees at that Medical school is understandable but Art majors and English cmon man

[@Christopher-nv9xy]

​@@W910o2Shouldn't borrow money that you can't pay back

[@szerny1271]

@@Christopher-nv9xy Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for higher education shouldn't be a thing. Thought education was a right? Doesn't seem so in America, just as Healtcare.

[@jakubzajicek4505]

Props to the fern animators for making the scenes look so high quality and detailed.

[@hracekk]

these animations are crazy man. Actually insane. I can see you having 10 mil. + subs in a few years, you definitely deserve it

[@TheBobert]

I love how good you guys are at sneaking in ads😂

[@ashjohnson4451]

when you’re punished for trying to show the truth, you know you’re being ruled by the criminals

[@projectsspecial9224]

Depends what side you are on

[@The_voices_are_getting_louder_]

Facts, you worded perfectly, word by word on what my motivation is on acquiring the cia's military documents, it's the truth

[@camharkness]

Ngl, this is the first time I've actually seen that used correctly, and not just by someone who got in trouble for saying something extremely homophobic or antisemitic.

[@rarefruit2320]

No doubt about it! In the US the truth is illegal and the lie is circulated as truth

[@tegaedwards]

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[@SCUMMY4205]

"I smoke pot and I live in America" he said behind a distorted british accent

[@969696KaySean969696]

ALL DAY EVERYDAY

[@natalia_00123]

"Live in America" He didn't say he was American.

[@Susieq26754]

I think he is Australian.

[@funkyfranx]

That did not sound like a British accent at all to me. I thought it was Default on that phone call?

[@dominic6337]

@@funkyfranxI don’t think so, the video confirmed that the guy from the UK smoked weed all day everyday. Bro said he was from America as a disguise 😂

[@bloodleak1]

cybersecurity job offers after knowing what they did in the past are gonna be crazy.

[@pipoyhates4163]

true tho

[@faint.2396]

fr

[@ApolloAlgo]

i was blacklisted from getting TS clearance so surprisingly not really

[@Forest-l4g]

This is the first time i come across this channel and omg the editing is so good!!!

[@masongarofalo9370]

22:06 "Make sure its worth it" is crazy

[@huskablehusky6677]

Well in this case it was for a good cause I guess

[@flawnski]

Great Video once again - and a super important topic to make people aware of! The debate of Freedom vs. Security, massive surveillance by (and not just) the US Gov. and whether whistleblowing is a morally justifiable action, is a question everybody should pose to themselves. Hat off!

[@isaacschmitt4803]

"What do you want?" "For you to stop bombing the Middle East." "That's a bridge too far, son! How dare you ask us to give that up?!?"

[@modables]

haha so funny 😐

[@bunnyy42o]

and they never stopped, even to this day

[@G-Vecom]

spoke truth

[@WazaTropica]

​@@modablesshut up

[@rarefruit2320]

@@modablesfunny until they come for you. When they run out of stuff to steal in the Middle East you might find them at your house next.

[@feelingnether158]

Kid : “Stop bombing…” CIA : “alright you crossed the line there, thats crazy”

[@qu3nt]

hacking back than was way easier, unpatched servers was everywhere unprotected directly on internet

[@sugabelie8881]

Yeah, know a friend that hacked into a law firm and transferred all their money into bitcoins and got away.

[@nin1ten1do]

then you wake up and sleep in pisspot..

[@qu3nt]

@@nin1ten1do i don’t know about the guy above claiming but it was common finding shop website with all the costumers credit card detail (yes also the last 3 digits) unencrypted

[@mrelo007]

@@sugabelie8881u. being fr?

[@notsojharedtroll23]

​@@sugabelie8881 😂😂😂

[@RiCh...6969]

I honestly find this quite interesting. As some random teen who is interested in computers I never realized that modern technology can be so powerful with an intelligent mind - and they weren't even adults for the most part.

[@termitethrasher6809]

If you're interested in Cyber Security, check out John Hammond or LiveOverflow. The only truth in this video is regarding Cracka/CWA. It was done via social engineering, so nothing really technical but Cracka does have talent with security. The whole thing about D3f4ult is based on lies he's been spreading for years. He was in his 20s.

[@MontgomerySims-li5qt]

this single video makes me never want to go on the internet again. People selling my information without me knowing and they can literally do anything with it??? thats the freakiest thing ever

[@Spinosaurus_guy]

agreed

[@skrtiee]

youre a normal regular person. your information is useless.

[@MontgomerySims-li5qt]

@@skrtiee thank goodness

[@Nicksonmumbuna]

​@@skrtiee😂😂😂😂true

[@ruthbrent7048]

They do that already lol; your info was never safe

[@kidnextdxxr]

Favorite story telling account. They feel like legitimate movies. Just found u out and watched two vids last night. Definitely a new fan

[@kakashishinoda]

I love how this kid has a poster of a game on his wall, and a Lego figure on his shelf 6 years before they released.

[@pixel7071]

they had RTX years before RTX too lol

[@leiilo]

they also had Windows 11 on their PCs which is even newer (2021) than RTX (or the game or Lego figure, I'd imagine)

[@kubuntukowalski]

@@leiilo Hacker on Windows 11 🤡

[@Don-Scrima]

He hacked the space-time continuum.

[@pixel7071]

@@leiilo well, RTX 20 and 30 series launched in 2018 and 2020, which is before 2021 (that's how numbers work, I think), although I don't remember which series the video uses

[@nowaynoway1798]

hi fern, love the videos that you've created so far; visually amazing!

[@mason96575]

That’s really rude of you. For you to come on his channel and overtly tell him you don’t like the videos he hasn’t created yet?! Only like the ones he’s created so far?! The AUDACITY!

[@ItIsJan]

​@mason96575 he is right tho, the videos they havent made yet are absolutely terrible

[@yodukenukem]

What’s unbelievable is that KZbin bans fucking ARD Every German knows how big of a deal this broadcaster is and what the consequences of banning such a broadcaster would be

[@marqicewalker1766]

What’s/who is ARD?

[@joefraser855]

I thought it was that, particular video that was banned. Is the entire media outlet banned ?

[@braidyyyyyyy]

​@@joefraser855no its just this video

[@braidyyyyyyy]

​@@marqicewalker1766ARD is one of the first german broadcast televisions after WW2.

[@lukasgiese2331]

ARD Is the first german post war station and is state funded by a mandatory payment of every citizien. It is (or at least likes to think it is) the Nr1 source for news and television journalism. @@marqicewalker1766 In short: It is the german BBC. A big deal.

[@jacobouellette1030]

this is one of the dopest videos on youtube. Great job!

[@Caydiem]

I mean it is pretty embarrassing for the head of the CIA to be using passwords that can be easily social engineered.

[@trevorn9381]

Brennan is an elderly boomer. His password was probably "password".

[@noth606]

I doubt you understand how any of this works, at all. If you did you'd know that a social engineering attack does not target passwords typically, and that what your password is has zero bearing on the success or failure of a social engineering attack. That sort of stuff isn't what you go for, the attack vector is completely different. You could get it if it mattered but you'd be wasting your time.

[@Caydiem]

@@noth606 Yeah, I'm sure a super-genius such as yourself is more well-versed in the world of tech 🤓 "UHM AKSHULLY"

[@BostYT]

@@Caydiem He's just saying that social engineering is more about trickery and simply asking for a password isn't too good of a trick.

[@BodywiseMustard]

socially*

[@aminah24434]

nah imagine youre the head of CIA and u get hacked by some bloke from the UK that's kinda sad ngl

[@projectsspecial9224]

Anyone had been and can get hacked multiple times. Actually, by default, people are already hacked in some form or another .. cybersecurity is an illusion 😂

[@TheRealEncy]

_"Shit Bro The Weed's Gonna Knockme Out Fr"_ "Kid, *WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING BY CALLING THE HEAD CIA"*

[@hip3rsnip3r78]

😂😂😂

[@Horrible-Ache]

Why the UK invented the www or internet didn't they? And the computer? And television/monitors? And the telephone line telegrap? All these need each other? Doesn't surprise me.

[@Twtgod]

Yes you are corrct ​@@Horrible-Ache

[@RockinRBP]

first video ive seen from you and i want to say its every well made like in the beginning the phone was made so well even showing every pixel 10/10 video

[@Yourcousinjoseph]

Same

[@skypie5374]

I’m in love with the editing. This video was an absolute BANGER!!!

[@Brandon0406]

They released an hour long documentary in collaboration with a german state media channel about russian hackers maybe two weeks ago and the production level is through the roof. I hope they release a translated version some day, it's insane.

[@shairahcortez]

fr i was entertained every second

[@destroyriri]

Same!

[@MarcelSamyn]

That intro sequence gave me chills, great work guys.

[@pabblo1]

I'm surprised D3f4ult only got 5 years in prison, especially as hackers who have done less have gotten 10+ year prison sentences.

[@ardyrc4531]

Well the dude in the video said his dad works in the government

[@kovy689]

He was only a kid, so prolly that’s why.

[@essarahimi9122]

Who are you again judging people here!

[@HughMadBro]

He was underage!

[@sterix_gg]

He shouldn't have gotten anything. He did nothing more than what the CIA has and is doing at a large scale. But that's the world we're living in and sooner rather than later we'll be paying the high price for turning the blind eye.

[@nimuwu]

These hacking/crime videos are my personal favorites! I really love true crime in general but these videos are just so fun to watch, just for the animations alone! Amazibg work again!!!

[@wbs7774]

I just want to say how much I love this account and how much perspective this gives me. Definitely my favorite account I’ve followed in the last 5 years.

[@MohammadAbouhoraira]

I swear to god these hackers have manners more than all of the governments

[@patiencekillz]

this is a little bit iconic, i can’t lie

[@HelloPeopleInThisWorld]

The quality of those videos is incredible. respect. Thank you for this awesome video

[@SandArtmedia2020]

Wow the transition between the story and the InCogni advertisement was flawless, it took me a little to realize it was an advertisement when I thought it was part of the story. I subscribed to the channel - well done!

[@nunyabusy]

This is like my 3rd Fern Video. What an intro!! What a story! I hope your writers get a nice bonus something this Christmas. 🎄 Welcome. Thank you. 🙏🏼

[@RandomBrandonsWorld]

This was a great video, man. I really enjoyed the amount of detail you put in it. The animations were great and the story telling layout was great. Overall A+ man!!!

[@Eggron.]

that was the most sneaky sponsor in a video ive ever seen. I thought it was actually apart of the video for a second.

[@iquitthischannelcuz]

lol

[@Davido50]

Exactly. 😮

[@element4element4]

I wish there were more strong laws against such ads. Ads should be obvious and maybe have the screen go black before and after the ad.

[@benutberg]

This is the most unbelievably well put together video I’ve watched. The graphics along with the story were incredible. This reminds me of prime Jake Tran content. Keep up the great work

[@AVIMANHWA0]

15:54 now he knows what it feels like being watched 24/7

[@ElectronLord]

I'm glad some one out there is telling these stories. The tyrants in charge want nothing more than for these people to never receive the appreciation they deserve.

[@CoraZubareva]

I love how these teens are literally taking on the government, and I’m over here debating whether to grab some extra followers from Quicky Social just so I don’t look like a total ghost online. Maybe one day I’ll aim higher… or maybe not 😂

[@alexstacey2126]

Major props! The way you looped the incogni ad into the storyline to where it actually made sense/went along with what was being discussed at that point in the video, was genius. I normally fast forward when someone does an ad mid video because it just randomly breaks up the video with an off-topic ad but I legit thought it was part of the video where you were just mentioning a way to try to protect your data (obviously there is no way to 100% protect it, but its better than doing nothing) until you mentioned that if people put "fern/tv" they'll get a discount. You got my ass. Major props. NOTE: I'm typing this mid-video after that part just passed and so far, great fucking video. I threw you a follow

[@BruinsPastaSauce]

D3FULT is such a dope hacker he has a poster of cod in his room years before that cod was even talked about being made.. bros a master.

[@user-sy9ur6of8t]

he definitely had another harddrive with bitcoin stashed away and hes living good now

[@thesilliestclown]

He hacked my dad who works for nintendo ;(

[@Idk-cn3wn]

"Maybe they're survailling us." Is the creepiest line to end a video on haha im laughing out of fear.

[@tixyy2863]

Thank you for setting your standards for your videos so high! it makes the vidoes so mutch enjoyble with the small details.

[@lout9231]

Can confirm - was going to start work at Gartner and had a snoop around their clients as they gave full access to their db quite quickly. Found NSO group stuff and asked if I would be allowed to refuse to work with a client if I didn’t agree with their human rights record. All access was swiftly revoked and I was booted out supposedly because they were afraid I would leak/disclose information I didn’t morally agree with. They had a whole project helping NSO group develop a US gov proprietary version of Pegasus. This was in 2022

[@jtk5274]

Yeah, modern internet surveillance is so fucked up. Like I’m a normie and it’s actually so fucking scary to think about stuff like that. The fact that any government (or stoned teenager for that matter) in the world can just spy on me or everyone else is just so dystopical. It opens the doors for totalitarianism everywhere and makes it easier and more effective than it ever was. The tools states now and will have to control and deceive their own citizens are just scary.

[@AzVfL]

What exactly is Gartner? I'm not sure if the google search result matches the context

[@MandenTV]

Thank you for engagement. Federal agents with classified identities are on their way to your location now. Please respond swiftly and accurately to their inquiries.

[@daddy7860]

This is why you don't reveal your cards

[@lout9231]

@@AzVfL it’s the technology advisory company.

[@dedbetter]

these kids are not villains, they are 21st century digital robin hoods with a slight twist.

[@stephdoitfitness]

The transition into the sponsor was so smooth I thought it was part of the video. Fire.

[@BoogerDad]

at first i was mad that you kept bringing up that he smoked pot all day every day. like, what does that have to do with anything. but then you hear him say it himself and it's so absolutely gratifying. 100% worth it every time you take the top of the leaderboard down a peg

[@tyronebrown3837]

Prim and proper professionals secretly strung out on Xanax and opium with a little coke on the side

[@Welcome_To_The_Oasis]

Why would that make you mad?

[@saturationstation1446]

@@tyronebrown3837 only the most naive among us believe that the well off in eurocentric countries are anything but stimulant addicted maniacs. you have to have not really experienced anything but wealthy peoples public faces to believe otherwise

[@chrisp2642]

@@Welcome_To_The_OasisBecause smoking cannabis isn’t an indicator of bad behavior.

[@Welcome_To_The_Oasis]

@@chrisp2642 Correct, but when you think of a “pot head” which this kid clearly was, you don’t think of somebody that is capable of hacking the cia. Let’s just be so real here