Join us as we sit down with Jason Haddix (https://twitter.com/Jhaddix), a renowned penetration tester who has made a name for himself by uncovering vulnerabilities in some of the world’s biggest companies. In this episode, Jason shares his funny and enlightening stories about breaking into buildings and computers, and talks about the time he discovered a major security flaw in a popular mobile banking app. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Linode. Linode supplies you with virtual servers. Visit linode.com/darknet and get a special offer. Support for this show comes from Arctic Wolf. Arctic Wolf is the industry leader in security operations solutions, delivering 24x7 monitoring, assessment, and response through our patented Concierge Security model. They work with your existing tools and become an extension of your existing IT team. Visit arcticwolf.com/darknet to learn more.
I used to work for this company and I worked on the overnight shift and they had a parking garage, but the best parking spots were all assigned to management.
Not only that, you had to have a special parking garage badge to get in, so I always had to park far away.
And what really bugged me is that I was on the night shift and there were only three of us on the night shift, so it's like the whole parking garage was empty.
Well, one day I brought my skateboard to work and was just rolling around in the parking garage during my break.
And I rolled up to the mechanical arm that blocked you from getting into the garage.
And to my surprise, it opened as I rolled up to it.
What?
I waited for it to go down and I tried again and it opened when I got near it again.
What I discovered was that there was a little electronic eye which detected when a car was trying to exit the parking garage and it would lift the gate to let the car out.
Well, I pinpointed exactly where that eye was and just tried to do something like take my shoe off and place it in front of the sensor.
And sure enough, that was enough to get the gate to lift up until I moved my shoe.
Well, naturally, I hopped in the car, drove up to the gate, got out of the car, took my shoe off, put it on the exit sensor and it raised the gate and I got back in the car and was able to get through the gate and grab my shoe on the way through and just park wherever I wanted.
These are true stories from the dark side of the Internet.
I'm Jack Resider.
This is Darknet Diaries.
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