AVOID FREE APPS

“You can build stuff in Minecraft with this programming language and add on functionality that you normally wouldn't get. And so to me, that was, like, super cool and it kind of drove, I think, a lot of that initial interest where, you know, I'd stay up super late, like, watching Java tutorials, how do you build a Minecraft mod.”

“What one place you need to be wary in is if you're downloading an app or buying a device that's gonna let you watch content for free that you're supposed to be paying for, there's a decent chance that's gonna put you on a residential proxy network. Like, that's a very common way. Yeah. It's it's nothing truly free. Yeah. Yeah. there there there's a reason why the, they're they're you're getting something that seems too good to be true.”

“So DDoS attacks are basically when you get a bunch of computers and they flood another computer with just like junk data, like, hey, could you send me this web page? And that junk data eventually slows down the computer to the point where it doesn't work. They sort of flood the zone with with Internet traffic and then the target doesn't work anymore.”

“The worry is that, these networks have millions and millions of IPs, and they don't often have, security teams or kind of anybody checking what activity is happening. So if somebody finds a way to harness these millions of devices, they can use them to do really malicious activity like a large scale DDoS attacks.”

“The real takeaway here is that we have an Internet filled with junk. We have garbage devices, garbage apps that are doing a lot of bad stuff, and they've become part of the criminal infrastructure. It's it's like an internet pollution problem. That's what the takeaway is that we have an internet pollution problem, and we're not really sure how to fix it.”

“I think it's one of those things where people don't really, like, think about it. Like, I definitely push boundaries I should not have in, like, hindsight. But I think the issue is, like, this normalization where if you spend all these, you know, all your time around these communities, things stop becoming The things that you would view as immoral or wrong start to become normal.”