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148 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 49–96
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talk#1734DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
DEFCONConference
“in most of the cases, it was bad OpsSec by the person, and had nothing to do with Tor”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
talk#1814BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
“the whole talk is incredible”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
talk#1839Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Techworld Sverige
“I got excited about signal after watching this video, which explains pretty well the challenges of encrypted communication and how Signal addresses them”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2021
demo#1901TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!
Stuff Made Here
“Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods.”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
talk#1907Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
HackersOnBoard
“This video from defcon gives a good overview of what Java Card applets is”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
talk#1916The Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam
Shakacon LLC
“Heard it recently and thought it was really interesting.”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
talk#1922Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
vissago
“Warning - watching this may readjust your faith in humanity.”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
talk#1973Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Black Hat
“The whole talk is worth watching.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
talk#1978DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
Christiaan008
“Good watch if you wanna see how naively designed the whole thing is.”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
talk#1987Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
“He's taking the hacker's perspective and exploring if the simulation would be hackable from inside.”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk#2019DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
Christiaan008
“The absolute funniest tech talk I've seen”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
documentary#2064The KGB, the Computer, and Me.
DragonFartOutLoud
“Then check out the old Nova documentary about the story”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
talk#2076Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)
media.ccc.de
“This is a good watch, it goes into detail on the architecture of the PS4”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
talk#2122DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
DEFCONConference
“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
documentary#2126The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
Australian Phoenix CyberOps
“It's quite amazing to see the original people involved recreating events just a few years after they took place”
3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
talk#2136Ichthyology: Phishing as a Science
Black Hat
“shows just how easy it is to phish even users who think they are too good to be fooled.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
talk#2154Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
DeviantOllam
“I have to also mention another video of theirs”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
talk#2231Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023
CppNow
“Finaly a recent gem from CppNow 2023”
3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
talk#2246Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability
media.ccc.de
“try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
tutorial#2247(405) Choosing a High Security Lock
Bill Johnson
“Here's an amusing overview of available padlocks, starting with crap Master Locks and moving upward.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2017
talk#2250Brian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016
“Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#2251LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds
Andrea Ross
“There is a fascinating and funny talk by Bob Beck from OpenBSD on the first 30 days after forking OpenSSL.”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
lecture#2283Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
NewYorkRawVideos
“Worth listening to Jake Appelbaum's 'digital anti repression workshop' [1].”
3 HN recommenders · 2012–2017
talk#2348DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
DEFCONConference
“Take a look at this talk from DEF CON 23 on what it takes to safely destroy HDDs”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainer#2360How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
Wendover Productions
“If you actually want to be informed on the subject I highly recommend”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
talk#236237C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
media.ccc.de
“was a rollercoaster of a ride. If you have the time to watch it I highly recommend it!”
2 HN recommenders · 2024
talk#2379Keynote - Karen Sandler
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
“here's a really excellent talk by Karen Sandler.”
2 HN recommenders · 2012–2016
talk#2384Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)
DeviantOllam
“it's worth an hour of your time.”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
talk#2404DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
“A really fun DefCon talk on bitsquatting.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#2406How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
“One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
demo#2433Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?
MattKC
“I admire this type of content where the creator take some concepts we [all] use and understand”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
talk#2435Hackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"
Hackfest Communication
“I thoroughly enjoyed Theo de Raadt recent talk”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
comedy#2443Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
Kitboga
“One of my favourite videos so far involved “driving to a store” to get google play codes”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
talk#2507RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Rust Programming Language
“I really enjoyed the RustConf 2020 Closing Keynote”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
talk#2551Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
“The linked video is a must watch to those who still doubt HTTPS”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk#2565Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies
HackersOnBoard
“This is one of the best videos I have ever seen countering this argument.”
2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
talk#2575How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
Joe Grand
“a cool video about someone hacking a Trezor One. Very enjoyable watch.”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
talk#2621DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
DEFCONConference
“If you've not seen this amazing talk I can't recommend it enough.”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2019
commentary#2718Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203
Chrome for Developers
“I think they make a compelling argument for hiding most of the url in part to prevent phishing”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk#2768Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security
Black Hat
“Good talk behind the reason for the T2 chip and some other Apple security stuff”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
talk#2831Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
media.ccc.de
“A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
talk#2834BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
Microsoft Israel R&D Center
“The speaker covers a bunch of areas and the final part of the talk (around 10 minutes) is about Microsoft introducing Rust in some self-contained areas in Windows.”
3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
talk#2889Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
TED
“The Stuxnet TED talk [0] was really interesting”
2 HN recommenders · 2011–2021
talk#2895RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Confreaks
“I summarized this excellent talk here [1], but one of the main points is that compatibility with existing systems is important for adoption.”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
talk#290227c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)
Christiaan008
“I recommend watching the Console Hacking talk at 27c3 by the fail0verflow team”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
documentary#2912The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)
GBPPR2
“It was really great, getting to hear it from Mr. Stoll's mouth directly.”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
talk#2936My personal fight against the modern laptop
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
“Here's the presentation by the author himself at linux.conf.au”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
demo#2941Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for bolognese
Steve Mould
“This video of Steve Mould yanking a Bot's chain while the Bot tries to get him to refinance his car.”
2 HN recommenders · 2026
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