How This 16-Year-Old Hacked the CIA

This is the story of how a 16-year-old hacked the CIA. Love you guys :)
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - The Origin
1:04 - The Golden Child of Hacking
7:05 - The Origin of Lulzsec
9:19 - The Hack that Shut Down the CIA
15:35 - The Double Agent
22:01 - From Villain to Hero?

My name is Gerard and I make Internet Culture Documentaries. My mission is to spread awareness about the Dark Realities of Internet Culture.

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[KillerMoth_Stumpy]

I always thought it was a cliche in movies when the guy who hacked the US government turns out to be a kid, but wow

[jt]

He is definitely clever, but more than his own skills, it's really evident how many of the people in charge don't know enough to make laws or protect others. They're just good at selling their image. The most brilliant minds in tech aren't at MANGA, they're in these random forums.

[commonsense]

This isn’t a person who you arrest!
It’s someone you hire! For all costs

[thewhitefalcon]

"is he a cyber Robin Hood or a threat to national security?"
Those are the same thing.

[cmbcoo]

I remember the LulzSec crew, and I remember feeling immense satisfaction during their payback for Wikileaks. At this point it seems like Anonymous could be a controlled group, but I'm certainly not versed enough to know. I do know that I've always envied the skills of ppl like Mustafa.

[maxim.]

This is actually so motivating, this just shows that you can achieve anything in life if you try hard enough!

[tjb]

The “he couldn’t delete search history but he found a way around” reminds me of something I did last year against parental controls.

I disabled my browser’s sync and deleted the history.db files in my App Data folder that held my history, so it was completely wiped, even tho patently controls were meant to disable it.

[therealhackermon]

Congrats on 300k subscribers. I love this channel and can't wait for future videos.

[TerabyteInGeneral]

0:44 why that superhero kinda caked up

[captainace]

These documentaries feel like a mystery movie with its tone, idk why

[JordanTan-nnnb]

At a young age, Mustafa has seen the most secure government agencies getting hacked. Now, getting up and helping other companies to defend their websites and systems is something really amazing Mustafa can do!

[stee]

Youtube thinks they're sneaky making the "skip ad" button smaller + shortening to "skip"- w/the surface area smaller--making it harder to skip the ad 😂😢

[Star____girl]

DUDE THIS IS INSANE! THIS IS SO WELL EDITED‼

[vampuira]

I know dis about to be a banger :)
love all of your documentaries! they inspire me a lot more about the world we live in.
and congrats on 300k ❤

[waterwise]

A DDOS attack is probably the most basic attack on a computer server. Its not really hacking. It overwhelming the server. Anyone can do it but everyone above the age of 18 would be charged as an adult, so they don't do it.

[xanderplayz]

I have found severe vulnerabilities in some certain bookmarklets that shut down, and I just use the vulnerability that I found to just make a text file on the server explaining the vulnerability, and how it could be fixed.

[lex]

I always wonder how this channel has less than a million subscribers. The contents quality is so good :)

[forbiddenera]

14:10 uhh... DoS and DDoS do not involve hacking into the server at all - they may have landed a virus/trojan on a vast number of unsuspecting peoples computers to create a botnet to perform the DDoS, but you don't need to hack or gain access to the target at all, you just need a lot of controlled hosts to send requests to the server, even completely normal legit requests, faster than the server can handle that much traffic. It's the exact same thing as when a website goes down because too many people visit it at the same time, just instead those people are bots.

Please be careful when defining terms like this - saying that DDoS requires hacking the target first is completely wrong and inaccurate.

And I'm not even being pedantic about hacking which is actually defined as just computer programming without any security context at all, originally what people think hacking is was defined as cracking - as anyone breaching computer security is generally also a programmer, they're also hackers. Media and pop culture latched on and redefined hacking as what cracking originally referred to with cracking being slightly redefined to relate to bypassing copy protection on software rather than the original definition of cracking security barriers.

As much as I dislike it due to the history and entomology, language is defined by redefinition thus while the argument about the term hacking was valid 25 years ago when I first saw it argued, by now it's admittedly pedantic.

But saying DDoS requires hacking into the target is like saying I have to break into your email account to be able to send you tons of spam from tons of addresses.

[smr]

This is so fascinating. Time to start my Visual Venture binge

[tative]

30k views is CRIMINAL for this production level. First vid I seen of yours, and I can tell it won’t be the last. Keep it up!