Re:The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
by sokka_h2otribe on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:53PM
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Could you reference some of this free speech absolutist background?
I'm willing to reexamine my appreciation for the darknet diaries,but I have never gotten this political take from the content itself. Rather he seems to simply be willing to engage with folks he disagrees with morally, as a matter similar to any journalist might. He does not engage with active crime or anything like that either.
I really like darknet diaries. I don't think it is just about cyber crime though. More like a human social journalism with a heavy cyber crime angle. So that's how you have such a range of content in my opinion.
Also, maybe listen at 1.3X? That makes the explanations and pacing imo easier
Re:The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
by goblin89 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:55PM
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Yes. Sorry, I edited my comment for brevity. The episode about Tornado Cash was the one I pulled the plug on Darknet Diaries. His suddenly very opinionated take just did not jive with reality, and considering it is targeted at laypeople I wasn’t a fan of that.
Re:The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
by some_furry on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:39PM
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Author of TFA here: I like Risky Biz a lot.
Each episode is chewed up slowly to the lowest common denominator, meaning half of an episode is condescending explanation of trivial matter. The misplaced air of faux mystery, true crime podcast style, does not help. The narrator being occasionally a free speech absolutist and explicitly in favour of money laundering services does not help.
Risky Biz covered Anom in https://risky.biz/RB751/ via a dense if a bit short interview with Joseph Cox, who wrote a book about it, starting around minute 35. Listen to that and respective Darknet Diaries episode to compare. In general Risky Biz offers more balanced, less boring, and up-to-date takes on cybercrime (sans interviews with actual criminals).