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Concealed with Art Simone · iHeart Podcasts Australia

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September 15, 2025·23 min·1 clip
I broke into a bank as a teenager and stole 40,000 credit card numbers.
Art Simone opens with a game: don't judge the guest on first appearance, because there may be more going on than the polished blazer, black shirt, nice watch, and slightly creepy folding phone suggest. That sets up Bastian Trepatel, who says he recently sold a tech firm for a bit of money, races cars and motorbikes, and managed fourth in the Australian Drivers' Championship last year while his daughter got into go-karting. The pose cracks pretty quickly. Bastian talks about technology changing all the time, the need to keep learning, and how an old NetBios hack opened the door before the real question became, can I get in, can I reach this, can I reach that? The story stays lively because he also talks about the community around hacking, the forums, the friendships, and the bragging that went with it, while admitting that back then a lot of people didn't think they were doing anything that wrong. The redemptive turn lands cleanly too: he says he later spoke at South by Southwest for Commonwealth Bank and now works with the AFP to help children. The practical warning is blunt. Keep phones, TVs, and smartphones updated, and don't leave default passwords alone. The example is nasty: a house in Sydney with cameras left unchanged had more than 23,000 people effectively able to look inside and watch the kids moving around the home. Art keeps the pace up, the banter stays playful, and the episode ends as a cheeky hacker story that doubles as a real warning about digital carelessness.

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A playful reveal interview that ends on a practical warning about unsecured tech.

Art Simone frames Bastian Trepatel as a polished surprise, and the slow build does the work. The discussion moves from car racing, motorbike racing, a recently sold tech firm, and entrepreneurial swagger into a darker hacking past, before settling on how a lapse in basic…

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You want a cheeky reveal that turns a flashy guest into a hacker story with bite.

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