Host MJ Banias sits down with Sapper Lab's Director of Communications, Kennedy Chappell, in this Season 1 wrap-up episode. They walk us through their favourite episodes, what they've learned over this season, and how the show has impacted them. From AI conspiracy theories to tracking child predators, this episode takes you through the behind the scenes moments that truly makes Cloak & Dagger.
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in those trenches. Every two weeks, join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
The views expressed by guests on the podcast are not necessarily those of Cloak & Dagger, nor Sapper Labs Group.
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, visit www.sapperlabs.com.
Music featured in this episode can be found here: https://www.cloakanddagger.blog/music-attribution and Epidemic Sound.
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The Story of Karim Baratov | Special Bonus Episode
In this special bonus episode, Cloak & Dagger partnered with The Nighttime Podcast to dive into the bizarre story of Karim Baratov, the 22 year old Canadian involved in the Yahoo hack, the largest computer hack in history. Join MJ Banias and Jordan Bonaparte from Nighttime as they discuss this strange tale from the darkest parts of the internet, and then dive into an interview with Baratov himself, as he talks about how he got involved, the hacks themselves, and how he says he accidentally became an asset for Russian intelligence.
Credits:
Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com
Original airing: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/karim-baratov
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in those trenches. Every two weeks, join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
The views expressed by guests on the podcast are not necessarily those of Cloak & Dagger, nor Sapper Labs Group.
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, visit www.sapperlabs.com.
Music featured in this episode can be found here: https://www.cloakanddagger.blog/music-attribution and Epidemic Sound.
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Into the Darkness with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection
Host MJ Banias heads to Winnipeg to visit the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a non-profit agency dedicated to eliminating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the internet. From supporting survivors of abuse to scraping the dark web to utilizing intelligence and OSINT techniques, the team at the centre has been responsible for some of the largest purges of CSAM off the internet.
Please visit the Canadian Centre for Child Protection by clicking here.
If you need to contact the centre's Cybertip team, please click here or visit www.cybertip.ca.
A link to the Forbes article mentioned in the show can be found here.
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in those trenches. Every two weeks, join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
The views expressed by guests on the podcast are not necessarily those of Cloak & Dagger, nor Sapper Labs Group.
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, visit www.sapperlabs.com.
Music featured in this episode can be found here: https://www.cloakanddagger.blog/music-attribution and Epidemic Sound.
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Scamming The Scammer with Griffin Glynn
Guest Griffin Glynn recounts a favorite story of how he went about scamming a scammer. From Grabify links, to breach data and social media searches, to a lot of social engineering, hear how the Director of Investigations for the National Child Protection Task Force spends his free time tracking down the people behind those email scams.
You can find Griffin here: https://hatless1der.com/
You can also follow him on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hatless1der.
Please check out the National Child Protection Task Force by visiting https://www.ncptf.org/.
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in those trenches. Every two weeks, join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
The views expressed by guests on the podcast are not necessarily those of Cloak & Dagger, nor Sapper Labs Group.
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, visit www.sapperlabs.com.
Music featured in this episode can be found here: https://www.cloakanddagger.blog/music-attribution and Epidemic Sound.
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Chasing the Ghosts Haunting Far-Right Extremism with Nick Backovic
2017 saw some of the wildest conspiracy theories, but the most prolific was QAnon. However, as the COVID pandemic swept through the world and with the election of a Democratic president in 2020, Q's followers began to vanish. Joining the show this week is Nick Backovic, an OSINT analyst with Logically AI, and he tells the tale of a mysterious and ghostly figure who turned the QAnon conspiracy into something much more sinister.
You can find Nick here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbackovic
And here: https://twitter.com/nickbackovic
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in those trenches. Every two weeks, join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
The views expressed by guests on the podcast are not necessarily those of Cloak & Dagger, nor Sapper Labs Group.
For more content regarding OSINT, cybersecurity, and intelligence, visit our blog at www.cloakanddagger.blog
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, visit www.sapperlabs.com.
Music featured in this episode can be found here: https://www.cloakanddagger.blog/music-attribution and Epidemic Sound.
Cloak & Dagger is a podcast about OSINT, technology, global conflict, and the practitioners and investigators who work in these fields. Join host and journalist MJ Banias as he explores the stories that shape the worlds of intelligence, security, and technology.
Cloak & Dagger is powered by Sapper Labs Group. For more information, https://sapperlabs.com/blogs/podcast
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