Why I Am Doing This
I want to listen through Darknet Diaries from the beginning and keep a lightweight public record of the journey. When I started, I was not expecting to stumble into a CTF hidden across the early episodes.
This tracker stays intentionally small: listening status, brief notes, and the small audio clues I find along the way. The spoiler-heavy puzzle findings are staying private for now. I may share that full work later, but I had to stop myself from looking up the answers, and I want to leave room for someone else to have that same fun.
Progress
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Episodes published | 175 |
| Episodes completed | 9 |
| Favorites | 0 |
Status Key
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queued | Not listened yet |
| listened | Finished audio episode |
| skipped | Intentionally skipped |
| favorite | Standout episode |
| relisten | Worth hearing again |
Favorites
| Ep | Title | Why It Stood Out |
|---|---|---|
Episode Tracker
| Ep | Title | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking | listened | A voice says: A1 B2 C3 D4 E5 F6 G7 H8 Looks like a coordinate key. |
| 002 | The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker | listened | Morse code: A2 A5 A6 B1 B4 B7 C1 C4 C7 D2 D3 D6 |
| 003 | DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye! | listened | Backwards audio; sounds like something in Twin Peaks. A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1 B3 B5 C1 C5 |
| 004 | Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room | listened | Voice says: 97 50 32 97 51 32 97 52 32 98 49 32 98 53 32 99 49 32 99 53 32 100 50 32 100 52 ASCII A2 A3 A4 B1 B5 C1 C5 D2 D4 |
| 005 | #ASUSGATE | listened | 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 11 3 11 5 12 2 12 4 12 5 13 1 |
| 006 | The Beirut Bank Job | listened | Spectrogram clue: A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1 B3 B5 C1 C5 |
| 007 | Manfred (Part 1) | listened | Lincolnshire Poacher-style interval signal, then: A5 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 C5 ”Let’s play a game. It’s your move” |
| 008 | Manfred (Part 2) | listened | No hidden clue found so far. |
| 009 | The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox | listened | |
| 010 | Misadventures of a Nation State Actor | queued | |
| 011 | Strictly Confidential | queued | |
| 012 | Crypto Wars | queued | |
| 013 | Carna Botnet | queued | |
| 014 | #OpJustina | queued | |
| 015 | Ill Tills | queued | |
| 016 | Eijah | queued | |
| 017 | Finn | queued | |
| 018 | Jackpot | queued | |
| 019 | Operation Aurora | queued | |
| 020 | mobman | queued | |
| 021 | Black Duck Eggs | queued | |
| 022 | Mini-Stories: Vol 1 | queued | |
| 023 | Vladimir Levin | queued | |
| 024 | Operation Bayonet | queued | |
| 025 | Alberto | queued | |
| 026 | IRS | queued | |
| 027 | Chartbreakers | queued | |
| 028 | Unit 8200 | queued | |
| 029 | Stuxnet | queued | |
| 030 | Shamoon | queued | |
| 031 | Hacker Giraffe | queued | |
| 032 | The Carder | queued | |
| 033 | RockYou | queued | |
| 034 | For Your Eyes Only | queued | |
| 035 | Carbanak | queued | |
| 036 | Jeremy from Marketing | queued | |
| 037 | LVS | queued | |
| 038 | Dark Caracal | queued | |
| 039 | 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter | queued | |
| 040 | No Parking | queued | |
| 041 | Just Visiting | queued | |
| 042 | Mini-Stories: Vol 2 | queued | |
| 043 | PPP | queued | |
| 044 | Zain | queued | |
| 045 | XBox Underground (Part 1) | queued | |
| 046 | XBox Underground (Part 2) | queued | |
| 047 | Project Raven | queued | |
| 048 | Operation Socialist | queued | |
| 049 | Elliot | queued | |
| 050 | Operation Glowing Symphony | queued | |
| 051 | The Indo-Pak Conflict | queued | |
| 052 | Magecart | queued | |
| 053 | Shadow Brokers | queued | |
| 054 | NotPetya | queued | |
| 055 | NoirNet | queued | |
| 056 | Jordan | queued | |
| 057 | MS08-067 | queued | |
| 058 | OxyMonster | queued | |
| 059 | The Courthouse | queued | |
| 060 | dawgyg | queued | |
| 061 | Samy | queued | |
| 062 | Cam | queued | |
| 063 | w0rmer | queued | |
| 064 | The Athens Shadow Games | queued | |
| 065 | PSYOP | queued | |
| 066 | Freakyclown | queued | |
| 067 | The Big House | queued | |
| 068 | Triton | queued | |
| 069 | Human Hacker | queued | |
| 070 | Ghost Exodus | queued | |
| 071 | Information Monopoly | queued | |
| 072 | Bangladesh Bank Heist | queued | |
| 073 | WannaCry | queued | |
| 074 | Mikko | queued | |
| 075 | Compromised Comms | queued | |
| 076 | Knaves Out | queued | |
| 077 | Olympic Destroyer | queued | |
| 078 | Nerdcore | queued | |
| 079 | Dark Basin | queued | |
| 080 | The Whistleblower | queued | |
| 081 | The Vendor | queued | |
| 082 | Master of Pwn | queued | |
| 083 | NSA Cryptologists | queued | |
| 084 | Jet-setters | queued | |
| 085 | Cam the Carder | queued | |
| 086 | The LinkedIn Incident | queued | |
| 087 | Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers | queued | |
| 088 | Victor | queued | |
| 089 | Cybereason: Molerats in the Cloud | queued | |
| 090 | Jenny | queued | |
| 091 | webjedi | queued | |
| 092 | The Pirate Bay | queued | |
| 093 | Kik | queued | |
| 094 | Mariposa Botnet | queued | |
| 095 | Jon & Brian’s Big Adventure | queued | |
| 096 | The Police Station Incident | queued | |
| 097 | The Pizza Problem | queued | |
| 098 | Zero Day Brokers | queued | |
| 099 | The Spy | queued | |
| 100 | NSO | queued | |
| 101 | Lotería | queued | |
| 102 | Money Maker | queued | |
| 103 | Cloud Hopper | queued | |
| 104 | Arya | queued | |
| 105 | Secret Cells | queued | |
| 106 | @Tennessee | queued | |
| 107 | Alethe | queued | |
| 108 | Marq | queued | |
| 109 | TeaMp0isoN | queued | |
| 110 | Spam Botnets | queued | |
| 111 | ZeuS | queued | |
| 112 | Dirty Coms | queued | |
| 113 | Adam | queued | |
| 114 | HD | queued | |
| 115 | Player Cheater Developer Spy | queued | |
| 116 | Mad Dog | queued | |
| 117 | Daniel the Paladin | queued | |
| 118 | Hot Swaps | queued | |
| 119 | Hot Wallets | queued | |
| 120 | Voulnet | queued | |
| 121 | Ed | queued | |
| 122 | Lisa | queued | |
| 123 | Newswires | queued | |
| 124 | Synthetic Remittance | queued | |
| 125 | Jeremiah | queued | |
| 126 | REvil | queued | |
| 127 | Maddie | queued | |
| 128 | Gollumfun (Part 1) | queued | |
| 129 | Gollumfun (Part 2) | queued | |
| 130 | Jason’s Pen Test | queued | |
| 131 | Welcome To Video | queued | |
| 132 | Sam the Vendor | queued | |
| 133 | I’m the Real Connor | queued | |
| 134 | Deviant | queued | |
| 135 | The D.R. Incident | queued | |
| 136 | Team Xecuter | queued | |
| 137 | Predator | queued | |
| 138 | The Mimics of Punjab | queued | |
| 139 | D3f4ult | queued | |
| 140 | Revenge Bytes | queued | |
| 141 | The Pig Butcher | queued | |
| 142 | Axact | queued | |
| 143 | Jim Hates Scams | queued | |
| 144 | Rachel | queued | |
| 145 | Shannen | queued | |
| 146 | ANOM | queued | |
| 147 | Tornado | queued | |
| 148 | Dubsnatch | queued | |
| 149 | Mini-Stories: Vol 3 | queued | |
| 150 | mobman 2 | queued | |
| 151 | Chris Rock | queued | |
| 152 | Stacc Attack | queued | |
| 153 | Bike Index | queued | |
| 154 | Hijacked Line | queued | |
| 155 | Kingpin | queued | |
| 156 | Kill List | queued | |
| 157 | Grifter | queued | |
| 158 | MalwareTech | queued | |
| 159 | Vastaamo | queued | |
| 160 | Greg | queued | |
| 161 | MG | queued | |
| 162 | Hieu | queued | |
| 163 | Ola | queued | |
| 164 | Oak Cliff Swipers | queued | |
| 165 | Tanya | queued | |
| 166 | Maxie | queued | |
| 167 | Threatlocker | queued | |
| 168 | LoD | queued | |
| 169 | MoD | queued | |
| 170 | Phrack | queued | |
| 171 | Melody Fraud | queued | |
| 172 | SuperBox | queued | |
| 173 | Tarjeteros | queued | |
| 174 | Pacific Rim | queued | |
| 175 | Bayrob | queued |