The Hacker Who Moved to Mexico City

Full disclosure, this is my podcast. I think this community would enjoy the stories, though. Ted started out in tech support at Delphi Internet in the early '90s, back when teenagers were opening accounts with fake credit card numbers. He tracked one of them to a house in Pennsylvania and called it. The kid's father, a reverend, answered and promised to take him out to the woodshed. Ted went on to run security for Boston investment firms. His favorite hire was Mr. Mojo, a guy he paid to physically break into his own offices. Mojo got into one building wearing a visitor sticker he'd pulled out of the smokers' trash. In Dublin he got through a locked door by blowing into a plastic bag. Ted was also at DEF CON in 1999, where someone shut off the air conditioning during the opening ceremony. His theory is that the best hackers come from music or philosophy, not computer science. It's onefjef episode 62, it's audio only, and it's on all the platforms. Here's the Spotify and Apple Podcasts links. submitted by /u/onefjef [link] [comments]

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