160: Greg

This episode of Darknet Diaries features two main segments: In the first segment, Jack Recider and his father reminisce about Jack's high school senior year, when he almost didn't graduate due to excessive tardiness in a typing class, despite excelling academically; his father intervened and secured a PE credit from another school, allowing Jack to graduate, and the story culminates with a tense diploma handover by the disapproving vice principal. The second segment interviews Greg Linares (aka Laughing Mantis), who shares stories about his early experiences with computers and hacking, including writing viruses in middle school, getting arrested for creating a macro virus that altered grades in high school, and later finding success as a cybersecurity professional. Greg recounts his time at EI, where he was part of a team that discovered zero-day vulnerabilities, and shares anecdotes from his penetration testing career, including one where he stole DNA data from a genetics company and another where he physically broke into a venture capital firm.