DEFCONConference — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

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“The talk is absolutely amazing, probably the most captivating talk I have ever watched”

11 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

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DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory

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“It's a funny talk, if depressing. A great investigation.”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

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DEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!

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“According to Zoz in his excellent DEFCON 22 talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

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DEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse

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“If you liked the original post, you will probably LOVE this DEFCON talk about elevator hacking”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

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DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

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“Really eye opening, and potentially devastating if it's done to you.”

7 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

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DEF CON 19 - Moxie Marlinspike - SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

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“I've found Moxie Marlinspike's talk [1] to be a great overview of these sorts of issues.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

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Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

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“here's an excellent defcon talk on what these some groups do”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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DEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google

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“It was formative in my understanding of privacy and security.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

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DEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

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“Christopher Domas is one of my absolute favorite all-time hackers. He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

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DEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR

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“This guy put the EICAR test string into a barcode and started to scan it on various systems, with rather funny effects.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

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DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86

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“Christopher Domas is one of my absolute favorite all-time hackers. He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

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DEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor

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“Here is an awesome DefCon talk about this topic from the perspective of a darknet vendor. It's amazing”

3 HN recommenders · 2024

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DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught

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“in most of the cases, it was bad OpsSec by the person, and had nothing to do with Tor”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

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DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

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“I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

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DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons

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“I remember watching his Defcon talks on x86 shenanigans[^1][^2] and being amazed at what he's been able to discover”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

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DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

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“Take a look at this talk from DEF CON 23 on what it takes to safely destroy HDDs”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

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DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation

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“A really fun DefCon talk on bitsquatting.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

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DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

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“Related, and a personal favorite of mine”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

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DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government

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“If you've not seen this amazing talk I can't recommend it enough.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2019

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DEF CON 26 CRYPTO AND PRIVACY VILLAGE - Scott Arciszewski - No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography

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“If you like video consumption, a DEFCON 2018 talk by the author Scott Arciszewski on this same topic”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

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DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline

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“I'm a fan of "Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

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DEF CON 23 - Marc Rogers and Kevin Mahaffey - How to Hack a Tesla Model S

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“the software architecture of the Tesla was light-years ahead of what Jeep”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

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DEF CON 17 - Deviant Ollam - Packing and the Friendly Skies

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“First heard about this at DEFCON at a great presentation titled: Packing and the Friendly Skies.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2023