He Won George Hotz's Money - Andrey Petrov
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Host Kevin Riggle interviews Andrey Petrov about three different incidents he was involved with: A programming mistake in high school that filled its alumni's email inboxes, a Twitter analytics site he built that got co-opted as part of a phishing scam, and how he won a bug bounty on the Ethereum blockchain rollup prototype developed by superstar hacker George Hotz.
Chapters:
- (00:00) - Intros/titles
- (05:02) - The Alumni Email Explosion
- (18:00) - The Twitter Tracker Takeover
- (33:09) - The George Hotz Ethereum Rollups Bug Bounty Bonanza
- (57:02) - Socials/outro
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuqAePsquo
News coverage of the Twitter Tracker Takeover:
“New Twitter Scam Won't Show You Your 'Stalkers'” - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44123467
“Beware: Twitter spam viral application on the loose” - Posilan
https://www.posilan.com/2011/07/20/beware-twitter-spam-viral-application-on-the-loose/
“After a lull of a few months, new Twitter Phishing Scam phrases appear” - Just Practising
https://www.justpractising.com/social-tools/twitter/after-a-lull-new-twitter-phishing-scam-phrases-appear/
Andrey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shazow
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth
Web site: https://shazow.net/
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Credits:
Edited by sleepingsage.
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
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