The Darknet Diaries podcast is a gold mine of intriguing stories and interviews with common criminals, authorities, and other well-known figures in cybercrime history and the field of information security. Not nation-states or acronym organizations, but real people with real stories.

My favorite episodes are:

• EP 45: XBox Underground (Part 1)
• EP 46: XBox Underground (Part 2)
• EP 67: The Big House
• EP 128: Gollumfun (Part 1)
• EP 129: Gollumfun (Part 2).

I became interested in Phrack magazine after listening to EP 170: Phrack. Their older issues provide a portal into the culture, ethics, and hacking methods used pre 2000s.

“Yes, I am a criminal.”

My ontological position is presentist, Humean, structural nominalist atomism and have an instrumentalist position for casual communication:

• Reality consists of many indivisible units called “simples” with no inherent properties and they are distinguished only by their relation in the arrangement (relational atomism)
• Everything we identify and label is just a different arrangement of simples (nominalist atomism)
• There are no real causal connections so causal language is just a useful description of how the present is arranged (Humeanism)
• The past and future are useful constructs but only the present truly is, so there is no persistence, only sequences of similar configurations (presentism + momentarism)
• I may say “x caused y” without believing causality exists, simply to communicate more clearly (instrumentalism)

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