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I was in an argument with someone that most people would consider a hacker. I was reading the texts on my phone. I guess I said something that kind of, I have to assume, like, insulted his pride or his ego or something. And this person sent the SWAT team to my house at midnight. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet I: Death by SWAT, Netflix 2022
Instead of having the news report on a school that got evacuated, why don’t I just evacuate the news studio itself. ibid. Tyler
We tied him into a number of other threats across the country. ibid. bomb squad investigator
Sentenced to approximately two years in the Los Angeles county jail. ibid.
He was like a one-man wrecking crew. ibid.
My Twitter was quite popular in that scene of individuals. ibid. Tyler
You got a man killed. That’s second degree murder. You called in a false police report, with the intentions of SWAT raiding a house, potentially killing them. That’s on you. You’re a murderer. ibid. tweet against Tyler
10 July 2016 4.20 a.m.: Seth Rich is shot in the back twice. There appears to be some significant struggle … Web of Mark Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet II: A Murder in DC
Slain Democratic National Committee staffer ‘wanted to make a difference’. ibid. online article
Assassination Of Top US Democratic Party Official Leaders To FBI Capture Of Clinton “Hit Team”. ibid. Whatdoesitmean online article David Booth
His site served as a clearing house for Russian information. ibid. man in the know
Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was Wikileaks’ source. ibid. online article 10 August 2016
Why would the Russians want to kill Seth Rich? ibid. interviewer to theorist
Explosive Additional Audio: Seymour Hersh Confirms Seth Rich Wikileaks Contact. ibid. online article Gateway Pundit
Fox News had just reignited conspiracy theories around Seth Rich’s murder. ibid. critic
In May 2017 I was invited to go to New York to go to a pool party … I’m not a Nazi. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet III: I’m Not a Nazi, woman narrator
I was determined to prove him wrong. He showed me these other websites. ibid.
One of the ways that the far right has been able to grow online is that they have been able to post their ideologies, their videos, their thinking, to mainstream networks. ibid. April Glaser, tech journalist
The Alt Right is now becoming this term and this group that is under a very large umbrella of anyone that just says they are Alt Right. ibid. woman
The downgrading of white supremacy as a threat … was entirely a political calculation. ibid. man
All of it was chaos from start to finish. ibid. woman
People don’t know that what you put out there stays out there. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet IV: Sextortion, victim
Seth Williams … seemed kind of cute in his profile picture … so we started chatting … He had access to my Facebook account … It was terrifying. ibid.
This is going to ruin your life and it’s your fault. ibid. perpetrator to victim
Perpetrators can attack thousands of people. ibid. woman
This individual was the most complex in hiding his identity … We had no idea who the hacker was … All we know he was hitting the IRS to the tune of millions of dollars … Clearly very very brilliant … Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet V: The Stingray I, rozzers
Daniel is a criminal and I’m the guy that taught him how to do that. ibid. mentor
We wanted to get him off the playing board as soon as possible. ibid. Arizona assistant state attorney
This person is extremely intense. ibid. rozzer
A huge amount of time and resources to identify the hacker. ibid.
The hacker filed even more fraudulent returns with the IRS directing that the refunds be now directed with the undercover account. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet VI: The Stingway II, Arizona assistant state attorney
I didn’t think that they would just let me walk. ibid. hacker
There is a sense of loneliness … What is the end goal? ibid.
David Daniel Rigby – this guy is a hacker. ibid. rozzer
My discovery focused on Stingray technology. ibid. Rigby in clink
It’s a small portable cell tower … The government uses Stingray in the vicinity of your phone. ibid.
A huge underground bunker became home to international criminal businesses. Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld, news, Netflix 2023
A data centre exclusively for criminal businesses worth millions. ibid.
We were hosting porn websites. ibid. partner
He was doing the same thing here as he was doing in the Netherlands. ibid.
You just wondered, What’s going on up there? ibid. town resident
It was clear that Mr Xennt gave orders and others did what he said, but the role of the others wasn’t 100% clear at the beginning. ibid. rozzer
Wall Street Market: Multiple IP addresses and learned that they belonged to the Cyberbunker in Germany. ibid. FBI investigator
The server room was significantly larger than I expected it to be. ibid. rozzer
The Cyberbunker bust had an enormous impact on the darknet scene. ibid.
If you’d have told men ten years ago that we’re going to be in this position, I would have laughed. The Sidemen Story, Netflix 2024
It’d be cool to make a few videos online and see where it gets me. ibid.
The Sidemen are a group Youtubers who are just smashing it right now. ibid. observer
They get a billion impressions every month. ibid.
Who the hell cares what Hollywood thinks? ibid.
TV is dead ibid. Sideman
Many victims, including minors, were blackmailed into filming sexual videos. Cyber Hell, news, Netflix 2022
Exclusive: Sexually exploitative videos circulating on Telegram assumed to be run by teens. 19,000 child pornography links shared. ibid.