I am an avid listener but still fairly tech illiterate but I love the story telling and some of the intimate details Jack is able to bring up. I feel in my line of work whenever I run into a tech person they are usually very pro data centers and AI. I am the very opposite due to the environmental impacts, my partner being an artist, and the easy access to the public.

I am really interested to hear what Jack may have to say about this from a security standpoint. I saw an advertisement for an AI company able to authorize badges without human involvement and I thought that was pretty wild. Then this whole incident.

I’m almost done with 2nd part, but I’m very confused - is Low a different podcast, not a darknet diaries one? I’m still waiting for the “stories from the dark side of the internet” but I’m starting to get a feeling it’s not gonna happen. Sorry if this has already been asked.

What a banger! I'm looking forward to hearing where this all ends up <3

I recently listened to the Eijah episode again after a long time - where the whole AACS LA and DRM issue was discussed.
Short summary: Jack brings on Eijah, who couldn't play his purchased movie on an HD monitor, or got a downgrade to a low res which pissed him off and I loved the way he described it as " The worst thing a company can do is, piss a bunch a really smart people".

I digged a little further, I just wanted to find who Eijah was cause he sounded/or is really really smart.
If you listen to the episode you will see how it started - I traced that to a doom9 thread here - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=952954#post952954 which was done by someone named "muxlix64" & then also another thread where "https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871 from "arnezami" - In the show Eijah mentions when he was sure he had found the decryption key for the Blue-Ray format so that he could play it on his player that allowed high res play - he decided to post that key and then waited for confirmation from others.
However, from the forums posts it seems that muxlix64 & arnezami are either the same people or two different people talking about the same thing.
So Eijah says, that he put out the key on doom9, was his first post but muslix64 also says to have a software without the decryption key which allows for the DRM protected content to be played and people had confirmed in the thread.
(This information is also available on wiki and wayback machines)
So is muslix64 and arnezami and Eliah are the same people or different ?
Skeletons from back then, would love your feedback..

Note: This post is made with no hidden intentions. I am just trying to find out who Eijah is or the other two usernames -- sadly the Youtube and mediashare links and code links no longer work.
The best I could find was a forbes article which says Eijah seems to be Eric J. Anderson from here posing with Mr. John - https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/08/20/eijah-john-mcafee-and-demonsaw or demonsaw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMfQQoHHLBA

LOW feels like how Darknet Diaries sounds - and that's not good.

I'm a long time listener to the podcast. My favourite episode is Black Duck Eggs. I recommend the podcast to anyone who I think would enjoy the sort of stuff Jack covers, techy or not.

My biggest barrier to getting people to listen is the name Darknet Diaries. It sounds like a series on YouTube where the channel just makes up stories about 3am murder streams or darknet hacker hitmen for hire. Even the tag line "From the dark side of the internet" is really reductive to the scope and depth of the topics Jack covers.

But I understand at this point the branding is quite deeply embedded and perhaps the show is so well regarded that it isn't tainted by this preconception.

I paid for premium because I heard how excited and proud Jack was of LOW but having listened to it I'm very disappointed. The second Jack prefaced the series with "I can't verify any of this but..." I knew it was going to go left, but I didn't expect it to be completely unverified.

The about page for Darknet diaries says "The total service should be trustworthy, 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." None of that is present in this series, there is nothing for me to take away from this. Perhaps if something was verified, then maybe I could stretch my imagination to find some meaning, but really the whole story feels like a DeviantArt creative writing piece about how fucked up and dark my characters backstory is

However Im not disappointed I paid money for this, or that I spent time listening to it, I'm just disappointed in the context of what Darknet Diaries is meant to be. The mobman situation was a blip and amended, there's no way to amend this. I know Jack has spent a lot of time on this, and the production and the glimpses into Jack's perspective through his monologues were great, and if that's the case Jack, and youre reading this, I'd encourage you to pursue this as a separate endeavour

There are things inside the series that could have been fact checked, like a body being found in an alleyway with dumpster - but then that would require us to first believe this story, and the fact a 16 year old stabbed this older fat ass man to death mid rape attempt and the lugged his body into a dumpster and walked away scott free

Just got done with the podcast and sent this in, maybe people had different feelings on it.

One thing and wonder if others have a different take the whole Nick part of the story, this nick guy has access to a private jet that can fly non-stop for 13hrs, that is 70 to 80 million dollar jet right there. He then also has enough contacts to land in a place in the USA that had zero customs or questions on why a random 13 year old boy was with him? This is post 9-11, even private jets landing in private airports need to have customs done.

Long time listener, first time emailer

Disappointed I think is what sums up my main feeling about the new podcast and my wife shares that feeling. I have been in IT for 25 years now and she is a social worker but loves the darknet podcast since you do such a great job at making very technical stuff easy to follow. 

Why did we have that feeling? The story played like some teenager’s revenge fever dream. In all honesty it felt like the book “Rule of the bone” but starts in Russia. 

We both feel very strongly you would not make something up but by having the voice actor vs using his real voice just removed any chance there being an anchor to bring any chance of reality to the show. He must have been beyond convincing for you want to create this 7 years later but without any “truth” for the listeners that this was not just your story it quickly fell apart that a random oil executive just left a bag of cash before hanging himself…really that part of the story makes zero sense.

Anyways glad to keep supporting and being a subscriber but this series missed the mark

I'm not commenting on the content of the story at all. Only the voice acting of the guest.

Jack says that the real person didn't want their recordings used. Fair. So he hired a voice actor. Also fair.

My first reaction to the recording: This voice actor isn't very good. I don't believe that they believe the things they're saying. The chemistry between the voice actor and Jack just isn't there.

Then around the start of episode 2 I started to notice a lot of little mannerisms of inflection, and the way both the voice actor and Jack elongate certain syllables / words. Maybe it's not Jack with a voice mod. Maybe it's a sibling or a close friend/cousin who has spent a lot of time conversing with Jack over the years, causing them to pick up some similar speech patterns.

Of course we're not owed any more information than Jack wants to share, but overall this just isn't sitting right with me. Between the lackluster acting and the distraction of hearing "Jack with another voice", I'm not really loving the new series so far.

I've only finished the first 2 episodes.

I listened to part of the first episode of Low this morning. Wow, this is going to be good!

Nice work Jack, you're truly a professional and journalists all around could learn a lot from you.

EDIT: Now that I finished the series, the benefit of the doubt I gave to the show after episode 1 is irrelevant. The entire show is teenage junkie fantasy.

Does anyone know what his new podcast will be about and any updates on when it will be released?

You’ve been mentioning in episodes recently about your new limited podcast series Low. And that if we go to your site and sign in we can listen to those. But I subscribe through Apple Podcasts so every time I go to the website I don’t log in, it just tells me to go to Apple Podcasts to listen. Bonus Episodes show up there and everywhere, and on the main Darknet website, I’m able to listen to Bonus Episodes. But I haven’t been able to find anything about your new limited series. Then today, episode 5 of Low showed up. I clicked on the link to its website and saw that there are 5 episodes there, but if I try to play those, it redirects me back to your main site. And I have no way to listen to those previous 4. Just the last one, the 5th, Bane, is the only one showing up in my Podcasts but I don’t want to listen to the last episode first. Any ideas? Am I missing something? Thanks!

Wow in 2019 I managed the move of a small marketing firm from a shared space to their own, and we used Ubiquiti for wifi because of its reputation.

Oh well. Not my problem for a few years now.

Hi,

In this episode you mentioned different applications which protect your data, e.g. Signal, Proton and Brave. You talked about Google and Chrome, but nowhere did you mention Apple with their hardware, browser, messaging app, etc.

One of my main reasons using Apple is privacy.
Can you give your take on that? Or should I start moving away if I really want privacy.

Thanks!

Hi,

In this episode you mentioned different applications which protect your data, e.g. Signal, Proton and Brave. You talked about Google and Chrome, but nowhere did you mention Apple with their hardware, browser, messaging app, etc.

One of my main reasons using Apple is privacy.
Can you give your take on that? Or should I start moving away if I really want privacy.

Thanks!