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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(08:05) – Silk Road

(18:28) – Mass surveillance

(22:40) – Operation Onion Peeler

(27:56) – Hacker Avunit

(38:45) – Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road

(51:29) – Edward Snowden

(53:33) – NSA surveillance

(1:05:40) – Silk Road murders

(1:14:26) – Dark web

(1:18:28) – Ross Ulbricht’s arrest

(1:26:27) – Aaron Swartz

(1:29:45) – Donald Trump and the Mar-a-Lago raid

(1:32:50) – Tech companies and censorship

(1:41:49) – War in Ukraine

(1:45:47) – Anonymous and LulzSec

(1:55:59) – FBI

(1:59:00) – Personal threats

(2:04:47) – Hector Monsegur a.k.a Sabu

(2:17:57) – Cyber attack threats against civilians

(2:34:45) – Most secure operating system

(2:38:33) – Cyber war

(2:46:28) – Advice for young people

(2:51:39) – FBI’s credibility

(3:00:10) – Love