"Well shit, man, youre gonna admit to all that!? Even though it kinda helps just showing where and how bad our security is!? YEAH we can get you a poster!! Hey, donnie! Go get one of the GOOD ones, yeah the new ones in the tubes!"
That's what happens if you try to weasel your way out. Cops put you in their pocket then hold the crap over your head then if your unlucky when they're done with you they still hit you with whatever they can.
I recommend listening to the Darkness Diaries podcast with him, the situation was much more complicated than the very short summary that was given here.
It's kinda wild how in the U.S. your career is usually trashed if you ever pick up charges, let alone federal ones. But if your charges were from hacking and you happened to get recognizably far with it, it can easily end up launching you into a successful career in cybersecurity.
Well, former thieves know best how to prevent thievery. Wasn't there a counterfeit money genius in the 70s or 80s that worked for the FBI after he got caught to help with counterfeit cases or so? Basically the same thing
Nations especially big ones are at war since 90s at cyberspace, these teenagers could be classified as soldiers and that defend their home nation. these cyber companies have backdoor for intelligence agencies and this is what they have agreed to remove jail terms.
@@berisha10 pretty sure they use blender, its a free program. Their other channel hoog made a community post a lil bit ago looking for blender artists.
Ive heard this story so many times, that being said the visuals and your way of explaining things had me hooked like i had never heard of the situation. Dope video man.
Yeah, that’s crazy. I like thought about that. Just imagine opening that trashcan and seeing that I mean most people wouldn’t even know what they’re looking at.
The kid applying for a Microsoft job, breaking into Microsoft, then getting the job and immediately losing it because of the break-in is an 'instant karma' moment for the ages.
I believe the person who hacked valve and leaked half-life 2 also asked Val for a job after he explained how the outlook exploit worked. Valve agreed.. The police were waiting for the person at the airport before he caught on what was going to happen and ran
Taxes pay for public infrastructure, corporations lose profit One’s the government, the other are private entities. Are you saying corporate profits are more important than taxes lmao
It sucks that the most cautious out of the group get harrassed into addiction and suicide, while the most heinous member, besides the snitch basically gets away with it and throws his own mother under the bus.
Yeah he’s the real biggest scumbag out of them all, even worse than the snitch. Pled not guilty when he obviously was, then fled his country and had his mum do a jail sentence instead of him. Terrible person.
2 years is a little much, but to be fair you can't expect to try to escape probation and law enforcement by escaping the country, trying to resist arrest and then threaten to harm yourself, all while getting off scot free
Did you forget about the fact that they cut off their ankle monitor, tried to flee the country, and then fled police on foot lmao? They're lucky 2 years was the sentence after all that.
You forgot to say Sanad stalked and ruined another youtuber's life for covering this story and Dylan was caught hosting servers full of illegal child abuse and underage corn material on it.
its almost like i HAVE to comment on every single time how much the production quality on the videos are improving each time fern uploades. i have been following since the 3rd video on this channel and content has only gotten better consistently. thank you fern.
@@fern-tv This may be my favorite video yall have done, I love a longer one & having been a distrupt(tv) fan I have a soft spot for hacking-related content lol
He got temporary freedom while the others were suffering with their consequences, now 1 of them is passed away, the others are living normal lives, and Justin may is in prison till this year or 2029
@@jamiesherrill1590 LMAO brother cops are never your friends. They will do everything they can do put you behind bars, they can lie and make fake promises and still put you in jail
fern, bro. as a passionate dev and underground enthusiast of this topic, having listened carefully to Jack Rhysider's podcast and MVG's many videos about all things Xbox... it's a delight to see your visual storytelling to condense this, into a -30min~ video. nice work my g.
Yeah, I was surprised to see this, normally their editing is top-notch. For a second I thought maybe it was a weird orientation or something, I trust Fern more than my own instincts!
You've probably seen 100 comments saying the same thing, but my god the editing and quality on your videos are incredible. I legitimately feel like I'm watching something on Netflix, you're one of the only channels on RU-vid I'm genuinely excited towards seeing the upcoming video. Keep it up man, you deserve all your success!
The early Xbox days are still some of the greatest memories I have. Soft-modding Halo 2 maps... Paying people with 1-months to boost... Figuring out new ways to get out of maps... People playing other console games on a modded Xbox. Some of the most creative and freeing times for us, no doubt.
360 days. We went thru this with PS2 tho. Taking the lid off the disc tray & stopping the disk with ur finger ? Code Magick ? Dude talks like he's 1000 years old. Its been 20 years. Relax kid
and then fr said "im not hiding i did nothing wrong" he committed crimes and let his mum go to jail instead of saving her and turning himself in????????? fucking delusional or manipulative or both
Its pretty sad that a kid, who did something stupid became so scared that she ended her own life. They likely would have gotten a much lesser sentence without trying to run.
Lgbt is a eugenics program and homie got indocrinated in prison by thug hunters. I hope you find Christ and make a change before you meet the same fate. ✝🙏
my man. you put up the ad notice in the top corner so anyone can skip past if they want and put a short but sweet ad in thats related to the actual content of the video so its way bearable and not terribly out of place. bravo sir.
Its so sad that these boys are not allowed to do something with their talent. Its so sad to see Holly kill herself just because there was nothing else that could make them happy.
If you're talking about Sam. The fact he was from Jersey is enough esp at that time for drugs. It affected everyone and people lost their lives in process. Point is. Quoting Sam. "This is not a game, people have lost their lives over this Xbox hacking situation. And good people"
Xenomega has massive respect from the VR community. Incase you don't know, Meta (the creator of the Oculus Quest) needlessly shut down one of the most popular and loved VR games of all time, Echo VR. People had met some of their best friends in this game and there were massive esports competitions. People poured thousands of hours into it just for meta to shut it down, not even an offline mode. Xenomega hacked the game as a "proof of concept" for "educational purposes" and got it back online! With the help of some more tinkerers from the VR Community, (like vibinator) it is now easy to install the patch! Meta lost my respect forever for shutting down this game, and Xenomega has gained it. Thank you Xenomega, you are a true legend.
@@CheeseIs_Life-f5n The name change for Oculus doesn't change that Facebook just bought the studio and IP, not sure why you find it so important to give Facebook any credit here
@@marw9541 I (obviously) am not a fan of Meta. However, all I stated was that they made the quest. Lucky Palmer, the founder and creator of Oculus and the Rift, left in 2017, Long Before the First quest launched in 2019. The leadership of the company completely changed. There is a good chance that the quest never would have existed if Meta had not purchased Oculus.
@fern you are out of this world with this content! your videos are keep getting better and better while you have set the bar so high with your previous work! keep it up, man! love your narrative speech and editing!
This sounds like a plot of a biopic movie about hackers breaking consoles. I still won’t forget about the hacker who leaked GTA 6, which deserves a video documentary.
I still remember the first time your video popped in my youtube recommendations. I watched it, loved it because of the story telling and very good animation. I clicked on your channel to see more but there were no other videos. I could not believe a channel of this quality had so few subscribers with only 1 video. Now here we are a year later, almost 2 million subscribers and it seems your quality of videos are only getting better and better. Keep up the amazing work friend.
Sanad , the sonic guy, hasn't really turned a new leaf since he's been harassing a youtuber for posting the story of the whole xbox underground, sending him copyright strikes and threats...
loved the animations of the different guys moving around the servers. It's not at all realistic but it's a great visual metaphore for the story you're telling. Great work.
Awesome video! Sorry to be annoying, but in the first minute of the video you talk about the route from Wilmington, DE to Ontario, and show it on a map. But on the map, you have it listed as Wilmington, NC, which is a city quite a bit further south from Wilmington, DE.
I was going to comment the same thing. He also pronounced Bowie wrong. It’s actually pronounced (Boo-E) not (Bow-E). Everything else was correct though.
Thank you for all the effort you are making with these videos, they're so well done. It breaks my heart knowing what happened to those kids man, they never hurt anyone, they were just kids with curiosity, things like this shouldn't be punished with prison time..
That was the best summary of the whole story that can be put into 27 minutes and uploaded as a video to RU-vid, but I still recommend to listen to the multiple Darkness Diaries podcast episodes because there are so many crazy details and background stories that didn't fit into this 27 minutes long video
Just a suggestion: for the last image in the intro sequence, you could consider using it as the thumbnail. I understand the style and legacy of your current thumbnails, but it might be worth giving this a try
Most frames in this video could work as a thumbnail! For the massive amount of work they have to be putting into these videos, I’m sure they are putting in their due diligence to make thumbnails that engage the best- I’m pretty sure that’s an entire job position for some of these big channels
Seems to me that Dylan Wheeler knew that he did the wrong thing and but refuses to face the music. His mom blames the other hackers for her son's crimes, Dylan blames the Australian prosecutors, fled and remains free.
I mean I wouldn't. The Australian justice system is overly vindictive, incompetent, and filled with morons that still can't manage to open Word. Also he'd still be getting sent over to murica AFTER being charged in Aus because Aus is basically a vassal state.
Awesome video, but I have one minor nitpick: At 0:47 That's Wilmington, Delaware (Biden's hometown) on the map, not Wilmington, North Carolina which the text says EDIT: Turns out the map was right, text should have said Delaware
Its both amazing & sad how much great content you can make without the netflix budgets while netflix is struggling to make anything good for most months
I have to imagine that you guys put a fair amount of time into these videos and it shows…. So it’s pretty impressive to see just how quickly you turn them out. You guys should really do a deep dive video on the ‘Making A Murderer’ case.
