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.
Ochko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev
A Black Hat USA 2017 briefing by the prosecutors who caught Russian carder Roman Seleznev.
Alexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix keynotes the OMR 2017 marketing festival on big data and personality-based targeting in political campaigns.
How China Tracks Everyone
VICE News reporter Elle Reeve investigates China's rollout of facial recognition and mass surveillance technology and what it means for citizens.
Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov
Chris Paget's DEF CON 18 talk on practical cellphone spying, showing how GSM traffic can be intercepted with a fake base station.
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video
MIT researchers show that sound can be recovered from silent video by analyzing tiny vibrations in objects such as a potato chip bag.
Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
Andreas Antonopoulos argues that money has a fourth function beyond store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account, which is as a system of control.
DNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans
Senator Ron Wyden asks DNI James Clapper in a March 2013 Senate hearing whether the NSA collects data on millions of Americans, and Clapper answers 'No, sir...
DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
Destin of Smarter Every Day goes behind the scenes at the 23andMe lab to show how genotyping works.
Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day examines how bad actors and bots use Twitter, drawing on the released Russian IRA dataset and interviews.
Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
Mark Rober sets up elaborate glitter-bomb traps to go after phone scammers, working his way up their chain of command, and ends with a scammer being arrested.
Trusted Computing? Yes or No
A four-minute 2006 explainer on trusted computing, describing what it is and whether users should support it, with a skeptical DRM angle.
Locksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)
CBC Marketplace investigates locksmith scams in the Greater Toronto Area.
You Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again.
Matt Gray and Tom Scott review how viewers worked out where they watched the 2017 solar eclipse from, based on clues in their video.
God Mode (Person of Interest)(2 x 22)
A short clip from Person of Interest season 2 where Root and John gain full access to The Machine and its resources.
Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project.
Data | Philosophy Tube
A Philosophy Tube video essay on data, surveillance and the algorithms built on personal information, touching on Cambridge Analytica and the 'nothing to hide' argument.
PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
Eben Moglen's 2011 Personal Democracy Forum talk on the loss of anonymity and privacy on the internet.
Elliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile
Dr Mike Pound explains the suspected backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator and how elliptic curve constants could let someone predict its output.
DEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
A DEFCON 20 panel with NSA whistleblower William Binney, journalist James Bamford and ACLU lawyers on the NSA's mass collection of communications and its conflict with the Constitution.
UTOPIA | Omeleto
A short Australian dystopian film in which a man returns home to find citizens fining each other for infractions via a government app, with cameras everywhere.
The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments.
Black Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the Booters
Brian Krebs and Lance James present research on DDoS booter services at Black Hat 2013, including the SWATting Krebs suffered.
Is Google always listening: Live Test
A creator runs an informal live test of whether Google or Facebook listen through the microphone to target ads, using Chrome on Windows 10.
Sneakers (1992): My Voice Is My Passport
A one-minute clip from the 1992 film Sneakers in which characters defeat a voice-authentication system by splicing recorded phrases, ending on the line "My voice is my passport." It was posted to illustrate a post on government surveillance.