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Dec 2019
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53: Shadow Brokers

Jack Rhysider
About this episode

The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools were to end up in the wrong person’s hands? Well, that happened.

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Thanks to Jake Williams from Rendition Security for telling us the story.

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