Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

podcast@darknetdiaries.com

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Booking Overview

A narrative cybersecurity and cybercrime show that combines deeply reported case stories with occasional external interviews featuring hackers, investigators, security researchers, and privacy advocates. Credible pitches include cybersecurity researchers with firsthand incident expertise, former investigators, digital-forensics specialists, privacy attorneys, and cybercrime victims or subjects with a compelling firsthand account; booking is likely high difficulty because guests need unusual access, expertise, or a newsworthy real-world story.

Metrics

Episodes: 179

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 426.0k subscribers

Instagram: 181.0k followers

Contact Information

podcast@darknetdiaries.com

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Host

Jack Rhysider - Cybersecurity podcaster and creator of Darknet Diaries, known for reporting true stories about hacking, cybercrime, data breaches, and the people involved in major internet security incidents.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Firsthand experience in significant cybercrime investigations, hacking incidents, digital forensics, cybersecurity research, privacy litigation, civil-liberties advocacy, or major data-breach response.
Required Achievements:  
Leading or participating in major cybercrime investigations, Conducting notable cybersecurity or digital-forensics research, Winning or litigating significant privacy and surveillance cases, Founding or leading influential cybersecurity or civil-liberties organizations

Recent Guest Discussions

Nicholas Merrill - National Security Letters, Government Surveillance, Constitutional Privacy Rights, Legal Challenges, And Digital Communications Privacy.

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Hacking, Data Breaches, Privacy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Darknet Diaries
:

LOW - Trailer

August 06, 2026

After 8 years, LOW is finally here. A story about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up. Five episodes. Five descents. LOW is an audio journey into the unlit corners of human experience. Choices we made in the dark, the silences we carry, and what remains when we stop running from ourselves.LOW a new Limited Series from the Jack Rhysider will be releasing to the public for free soon, but you can hear it now as a Darknet Diaries Plus subscriber. Go to plus.darknetdiaries.com and su...

178: Ubiquiti

August 04, 2026

Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn't feel like he was being listened to enough. What do you do when the company you work for isn't securing their software up to your standards? Well, he thought he needed to teach them a lesson, but in the end, he learned an even bigger lesson.SponsorsThis show is brought to you by Drata. Drata is the trust management plat...

177: National Public Data

July 21, 2026

This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he had a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when his spree went one step too far.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from ThreatLocker. ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust Platform that gives organizations control over what can run and what users and devices can access. It combines prevention with real time detection and automated respons...

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