181: Ricky

Imagine driving down the road and your phone loses signal. Not just a lost signal, but it starts displaying SOS. Meaning no service configured at all. You can't make any calls, no data, no service. What goes through your head?
In this episode we hear from Ricky Handschumacher who learned how to slip inside a stranger’s phone, and would rummage through it looking for things he thought were valuable.
We also hear a story from Mark Kreitzman who started Efani because of people like Ricky.
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Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7yLKVnQcNg&t=7s
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/getting-cheated-in-a-videogame-led-him-to-a-world-of-online-crime-874392e7
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/118/
https://whatismyipaddress.com/mobile-security-sim-swapping