May 24 2024 83 mins 6
In this episode, Jason and Kevin sit down with the one and only storyteller from the dark side of the internet, Jack Rhysider. Jack is the beloved voice behind the extremely popular podcast The Darknet Diaries. Tonight, it’s a podcaster-to-podcaster conversational happy hour!
Jack attended a highly ranked university to study computer engineering with an emphasis on software engineering. Received formal training in Linux, Unix, Windows, C, C++, Java, ASM, logic, and electrical engineering.
After college, he spent over a decade conducting network hardening by securing, analyzing, and testing network equipment such as firewalls, routers, and IDS units. Completed work on dozens of client's networks ranging from schools, banks, commercial, government, and defense contractors. Acquired numerous certifications in Cisco and Juniper and other security related training. Architected and built a SOC using a SIEM to detect network threats and intrusions for clients.
Darknet Diaries produces audio stories specifically intended to capture, preserve, and explain the culture around hacking and cyber security in order to educate and entertain both technical and non-technical audiences.
At Darknet Diaries, they adhere to journalistic standards by fact checking and ethical sourcing of information. They adopt principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability.
Darknet Diaries is trustworthy, they strive to enhance intellectual development, expand knowledge, deepen aural enjoyment, increase the awareness of living in a highly technical society, and result in a service to listeners which makes them more responsive, informed citizens of their digital lives.
Jason Popillion is a CISSP and serves as a CIO/CTO of a SaaS company and Kevin Pentecost is a CISSP, CISM, CEH, CPT, MPCS, MCSE, CCA, ITIL-F and serves as the Information Security Director for a Manufacturing company.
CITATIONS:
Darknet Diaries Website:
https://www.darknetdiaries.com
Darknet Diaries SWAG Shop:
https://shop.darknetdiaries.com/
Jack’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-rhysider-02922a167/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JackRhysider
https://twitter.com/DarknetDiaries
YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@JackRhysider
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4XPl3uEEL9hvqMkoZrzbx5
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296350485
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetdiaries/
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