Ep. 97: Inside the World of a Hacker

Pedram Amini, the Chief Technology Officer of InQuest, appears on Episode no 97 of Task Force 7 Radio to give listeners an inside view of the world of a hacker. Amini starts off by defining a hacker, a vulnerability, an exploit, reverse engineering and fuzzing to give the audience a common foundation for the discussion. In the second and third segments of the show, he gets into specifics regarding the economics of the underground vulnerability markets, what are the hardest and easiest platforms to compromise, how he successfully launched and exited his startup Jumpshot, and what his job at InQuest entails today. Amini wrapped up the dialogue by providing insight into the risks associated with emerging technologies like self driving cars, the dangers of Cyber Warfare and capabilities of Nation State Actors in the world, and the ever so important topic of election security.