Lex Fridman Podcast

#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Nov 22, 2022

03:02:59

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Reykjavik, Iceland

01:20

What's the Difference Between Bitcoin and Tour?

02:06

The He-She Issue

01:34

Hacktivism: A Look at the Philosophy

01:33

Introduction

2min

A Black T-Shirt That Brings Out the Bust in Me

2min

How to Get the Most Out of Your Life

4min

Russ Albrecht and the Silk Road

2min

What Is the Anonymity of the Internet?

2min

What Was the System of Censorship of Silk Road?

3min

Tour Project - What's It All About?

3min

The Pros and Cons of Mass Surveillance

2min

The Case for Mass Surveillance Is That You Should Have It

2min

10.

How Did You Cross the Line in the FBI?

2min

11.

The Onion Technology Behind Tor

2min

12.

How Do You Peeled the Onion?

2min

13.

The He-She Issue

2min

14.

Is There a Safe Way for Criminals to Talk to Me Out of Podcast?

2min

15.

The Ethics of Having Such Conversations With Criminals

2min

16.

The Mind of a Criminal

3min

17.

Is Hector Montserger a Secret Service Agent?

3min

18.

How Big Was Bitcoin?

2min

19.

What Was Your Understanding of the Network of Trust in the Silk Road?

2min

20.

Why Didn't He Walk Away?

3min

21.

What Was the Process of Bringing Down Hector Montzegor?

3min

22.

How to Keep Chat Logs Out of the World?

2min

23.

You Don't Want That to Happen to You

2min

24.

Is Snowden a Good Person or a Bad Person?

2min

25.

Cyber Security

2min

26.

You Know, You Could Abuse the Power of Mass Surveillance

2min

27.

Is There a Balance?

2min

28.

How Did Jared Deeregan Get to San Francisco?

2min

29.

What's the Connection of Frosty and Other Uses?

3min

30.

Was It Because of the Scale of the Arrest?

2min

31.

Was Ross a Dictatorial?

3min

32.

You Hate That Idea?

2min

33.

War on Drugs

2min

34.

Do You Think Legalizing All Drugs Would Make for a Better World?

2min

35.

Do You Ever Think About Not Taking Down Silk Road?

1min

36.

The Dark Web

2min

37.

Hacking at His Best and Its Worst

2min

38.

What's the Difference Between DPR and Ross?

2min

39.

Did Russ Ask for a Lawyer?

2min

40.

What's the Point of Interviews in Prison?

3min

41.

Chernobyl - I Love It

4min

42.

The FBI and Mar-a-Lago

2min

43.

Are You a Hardcore Communist?

2min

44.

Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan's Podcast

2min

45.

Is There a Bubble?

4min

46.

Do You Let Haters Hate You?

2min

47.

How Many People Do This to Your Face?

3min

48.

Is There Love in the Heart of the Soldiers?

2min

49.

What's Your Long Story With Lalsek?

3min

50.

Hacktivism and the Anonymous Stuff Wasn't So Much for the Lols

2min

51.

What's the Leadership of Anonymous?

2min

52.

I've Been More Careful With the Law

2min

53.

What Is the Difference Between Anonymous and Hacktivism?

2min

54.

How Much Journalism Is Undercover?

3min

55.

Is the FBI a Suit and Tie?

5min

56.

Is There a Threat in the World?

2min

57.

The Law of Sex, Who's Hector?

2min

58.

How Did You First Meet Sabbu?

2min

59.

How to Go After the Beehive?

2min

60.

The Cyber Dork Squad - The Baby's Wired

2min

61.

What Was Happening in the Hacker World?

2min

62.

Is That Guy Afraid for His Life?

2min

63.

How Much State Sponsored Cyber Attacks Are There?

2min

64.

How Big of a Threat Are Cyber Attacks?

2min

65.

Is There One Solution That Fits All?

2min

66.

The Difference Between IT and Security

2min

67.

Is Two Factor Authentication Really Needed?

2min

68.

How to Protect Yourself From Cyber Attacks

2min

69.

Password Cracking - How to Crack a Password

2min

70.

Is There a Zero-Day Attack?

2min

71.

Keyloggers

3min

72.

The Key Log, You're Not a Target, Just Put It Out There

1min

73.

What's the Biggest Threat?

3min

74.

Hacker in the Fed - Is There a Global War?

2min

75.

The Panic of Cyber Attacks

2min

76.

Are You Being Tracked?

3min

77.

Hector Montseger - I Still Got Away

2min

78.

What Advice Would You Give to Criminals in High School?

2min

79.

I'm an Asshole to My Friends

2min

80.

What Do I Stand For?

2min

81.

Do You Love the FBI?

2min

82.

Hackers Turned Into Leaders

2min

83.

I'll Be the First One. I've Never Told You, Man.

3min

84.

You're Dad's Hero

2min

85.

The Role of Love in the Human Condition

3min

Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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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

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

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Reykjavik, Iceland

What's the Difference Between Bitcoin and Tour?

The He-She Issue

Hacktivism: A Look at the Philosophy

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