Oak Cliff Swipers
10/7/20251 hr 28 min
He started small, swiping cards, buying gift cards, and cashing out. It spiraled into a full‑blown criminal enterprise. Dozens of co‑conspirators, stacks of stolen plastic, and a lifestyle built on chaos.Meet Nathan Michael, leader of Oak Cliff Swipers.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from ThreatLocker®. ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enabl...
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First 90 secondsJack Rhysider· Host0:00
Man, have I got a story for you. (laughs) Where did this one even come from? Oh, yeah, it was, uh, it was Twitter. I got a Twitter DM, and this guy's like, "Hi, I'm Nathan." (laughs) I'm like, "Oh, okay." And he was like, "Yeah, I've done some sh- s- stuff, and you might wanna interview me." I should note right here that this episode has a lot of swear words, and I would say is for mature audiences. So, if you have some sensitive ears around you, I recommend listening to this one with headphones or whatever you need to do. That's your warning. That's your graphic warning for this one. So, typically when someone DMs me and says, "Hey, you know, you should interview me for your show," my first response, without even knowing anything about them, is, "Can I see your police report?" (laughs) Because a lot of people who message me, they, like, want to be on the show for hacking something, but maybe they've never been caught, and so I hate to glorify their actions, right? But even more so, it's probably true that their story isn't over yet and it's just the beginning, and I should probably check in with them, like, in a few years to see how thi- things are going. But I also have CEOs message me and say, "Hey, I'd like to come on the show and tell you about my product, and how great everything is, and how great we can (laughs) defend things and stuff." And so, when I just immediately start by asking for a police report, that cuts right through a lot of the small talk and gets right to the heart of what I'm looking for. I wanna know about the worst day of your life, the- the thing that happened that was just catastrophic to you. And