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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Narrative podcast episode blending host monologue, sponsor reads, and in-depth interview.
- The Key Players:
- Host: Jack Rhysider, creator of Darknet Diaries, a hacker and storyteller exposing the internet's underbelly.
- Guest: Andrew (full name implied as Andrew Baby), ex-gray hat marketer turned anti-streaming fraud expert at Beatdapp.
- The Vibe: Intense and eye-opening, mixing gritty hacker tales with shocking revelations—educational yet thrilling like a cyber thriller.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The episode dives into the shadowy evolution of digital marketing and massive streaming fraud, revealing how tricks once used for promotion now fuel crime.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Andrew**
- 2 (04:44) **Early Social Media Growth Hacking**
- 3 (06:46) **Clickjacking and Fake Engagement**
- 4 (08:42) **Ad Arbitrage and YouTube Manipulation**
- 5 (11:20) **Grey Hat Philosophy and Success Stories**
- 6 (18:00) **Guerrilla vs Black Hat Marketing**
- 7 (20:45) **Pivot to Blockchain and Music Royalties**
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Show Notes
What if the music charts you see aren’t real? What if the numbers that define success can be manufactured? We talked to Andrew, a man who has spent his career on both sides of this battle. He once profited from the loopholes in streaming platforms, but now, his job is to close them. This episode will change the way you understand music streaming platforms from now on.
Sponsors
Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®. ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com.
Support for this show comes from Adaptive Security. Deepfake voices on a Zoom call. AI-written phishing emails that sound exactly like your CFO. Synthetic job applicants walking through the front door. Adaptive is built to stop these attacks. They run real-time simulations, exposing your teams to what these attacks look like to test and improve your defences. Learn more at adaptivesecurity.com.
This episode is sponsored by Meter, the company building networks from the ground up. Meter delivers a complete networking stack - wired, wireless, and cellular - in one solution that’s built for performance and scale. Alongside their partners, Meter designs the hardware, writes the firmware, builds the software, manages deployments, and runs support. Learn more at meter.com.
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