PickVidsBest Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime Videos
The 146 Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 18 intermediate, 120 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Black Hat, DEFCONConference, media.ccc.de.
DEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
Moxie Marlinspike's DEF CON 18 talk argues that privacy threats have shifted from centralized state databases like TIA to corporate data collection by companies like Google, despite wins in strong cryptography and decentralization.
Keynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas
Patricia Aas's EuroBSDCon keynote is about ethics for people who build software, covering how the tech industry got to its current state and what engineers can do about it.
Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage
Slavoj Zizek and Paul Holdengraber discuss surveillance and whistleblowers at the International Authors' Stage, ranging over Snowden, Assange, Pussy Riot and humor.
Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
Eben Moglen speaks at NYU in 2010 about freedom in the cloud, arguing that centralized services and handing over personal data and server logs erode privacy and freedom.
The Only Safe Phone Is One Even the Police Can't Unlock
A five-minute CGP Grey explainer arguing that a phone is effectively an extension of your mind, and that any backdoor or master key into encrypted devices will inevitably be abused or leaked.
DEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor
A DEF CON 30 talk by Sam Bent, a former darknet vendor, on operational security when using Tor and the darknet.
DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
Adrian Crenshaw's DEF CON 22 talk gives an overview of Tor and I2P, then goes through real cases where darknet users were caught.
The Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit
Alexander Nix of Cambridge Analytica presents at the 2016 Concordia Summit on using big data, psychographic profiling and behavioral microtargeting in elections.
Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Moxie Marlinspike speaks at Next Generation Threats 2014 about the challenges of encrypted communication and how Signal addresses them.
Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Journalist Matthew Cole's Black Hat 2013 talk on the CIA's operational security failures in the 2003 Milan kidnapping.
DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
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The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
A 57-minute account of Clifford Stoll's tracking of a KGB-linked hacker through Lawrence Berkeley Lab computers in 1986, the story of The Cuckoo's Egg.
Ichthyology: Phishing as a Science
Karla Burnett presents real phishing campaigns run against a Bay Area tech company, including conversion rates and how existing protections were bypassed.
Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
Part 2 of a Q&A workshop with security researcher Jacob Appelbaum from April 2012, covering mobile phone security, cellphone forensics, state repression and surveillance.
China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
VICE News reporter Isobel Yeung goes undercover as a tourist in Xinjiang, documenting heavy surveillance, policing and internment of Uighurs.
Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
Mark Rober and collaborators build glitter bomb traps and other pranks to fight phone scam call centers, and share evidence about the operations.
Deus Ex Morpheus Conversation [1080p Widescreen]
A 1080p widescreen capture of the Deus Ex conversation between JC Denton and the AI Morpheus.
37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
A 37C3 talk by Kaspersky researchers on Operation Triangulation, a zero-click iPhone attack that targeted their own colleagues.
Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
An Intelligence Squared debate in which Will Self argues for Brave New World and Adam Gopnik for Nineteen Eighty-Four as the better dystopian warning.
Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser's TED talk argues that personalized web services trap users in filter bubbles, limiting exposure to challenging information.
Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
Kitboga baits tech-support scammers into believing they will get $3,000, wasting hours of their time while he plays along and screen-shares.
Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies
Matthew Cole's Black Hat 2013 talk on operational security failures by CIA operatives.
Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law
A satirical 'honest' government ad from The Juice Media about Australia's 2018 Assistance and Access anti-encryption bill.
The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy: EventID=104573
A 2016 House Judiciary Committee hearing on encryption, held during the Apple and FBI iPhone dispute.