Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340

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:
0:00 – Introduction
1:16 – Silk Road
11:39 – Mass surveillance
15:50 – Operation Onion Peeler
21:06 – Hacker Avunit
31:56 – Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road
44:39 – Edward Snowden
46:44 – NSA surveillance
58:51 – Silk Road murders
1:07:37 – Dark web
1:11:39 – Ross Ulbricht’s arrest
1:19:37 – Aaron Swartz
1:22:55 – Donald Trump and the Mar-a-Lago raid
1:26:01 – Tech companies and censorship
1:35:00 – War in Ukraine
1:38:58 – Anonymous and LulzSec
1:49:10 – FBI
1:52:11 – Personal threats
1:57:57 – Hector Monsegur a.k.a Sabu
2:11:07 – Cyber attack threats against civilians
2:27:55 – Most secure operating system
2:31:44 – Cyber war
2:39:38 – Advice for young people
2:44:50 – FBI’s credibility
2:53:21 – Love

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