{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6dab3ca4-41f5-4fd4-bba6-224ab53f5113/a09315c1-f01a-4e45-86a8-9d447f70347c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Grugq","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b79eac169562946fe952a8/61b79ec5df210c0014c06f9f.png?height=200","description":"<p>Ben Makuch sits down with one of InfoSec’s only true celebrities: The Grugq (who recently added the name ‘Thaddeus’ to his <a href=\"https://twitter.com/thegrugq\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter account</a>, which has over 100,000 followers.)</p><p><br></p><p>For the uninformed, the Grugq is a South African hacker, security research,<a href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kb4enx/this-hip-hop-track-has-better-opsec-advice-than-most-guides-out-there\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> OPSEC expert </a>and highly entertaining Twitter follow with a history of being an exploit broker that has a rolodex of government contacts (he once claimed in Forbes to be <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/21/meet-the-hackers-who-sell-spies-the-tools-to-crack-your-pc-and-get-paid-six-figure-fees/#5b36e3ed1f74\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">taking in over $1 million in a single year</a> skimming a fee off of exploit sales as a middle-man to intelligence agencies).</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, the hacking and spy expert cuts through the media tailspinning around disinfo campaigns to tell us what 2020 election meddling might just look like.</p>","author_name":"VICE"}