From Recorded Future News and prx, this is Click Here.
What's the first thing you ever hacked?
My uncle's dial up computer connection.
Then he started noticing the Internet bill increase greatly because I was downloading MP3s.
This is Jamie O'Reilly, a cybersecurity expert based in Australia.
One piece of advice that he gave me when he first introduced me to the Internet actually came back to to haunt him,
which was that I could ask the Internet for any possible question and get any answer that I wanted.
And I went to Google and asked, how do I get my computer's dial up password?
His uncle had put a password on the computer to try to stop Jamie from using it so much.
The Internet responded with a piece of software that was specialized to extract dial
up passwords from Windows computers.
So you thought to yourself, this is magic.
Exactly.
From a court of future news, this is Click Here's Mic Drop.
A longer listen to one of our favorite interviews of the week.
I'm Dina Templrest.
Earlier this month,
we told you about an Australian law that now compels technology companies to help law enforcement
by creating backdoors into their products.
Privacy advocates there were crying foul,