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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
Lex Fridman Podcast
Cryptocurrency and the Law Enforcement Agencies
Back then, all right, back then what we're talking about is you need to typically today you need a whole track two. You need the 16 digit card number forward slash and then whatever that algorithm has the opposite of them. Back then none of the banks had implemented that algorithm. So while the algorithm was there, you didn't need it to encode. That's before cryptocurrency came into play. Started stealing a lot of money. And that got law enforcement attention. We started to see IPs coming in from government agencies because back then they didn't know how to shield their identity either. My idea was I wonder if you could take somebody that's died and then file for Social Security Death
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