Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime Videos Recommended on Hacker News (146)
Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 146 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 273 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Privacy and surveillance: mass surveillance, NSA, Snowden, facial recognition, tracking, data brokers, censorship, cybercrime investigations, carding, digital forensics, anonymity, Tor.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Defcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part : “I would highly encourage anyone who thinks that the solution is as simple as "don't use XYZ" to see what Moxie Marlinspike had to say” — an HN commenter, 2013.
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10 mo on HNDefcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part
9 mo on HNThis Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
9 mo on HNAmerica Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has
7 mo on HNFrank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google
8 mo on HN#HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd
6 mo on HNCybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014
6 mo on HN28c3: The coming war on general computation
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!
6 mo on HNData Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
6 mo on HNCivil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google
6 mo on HNWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
6 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You
5 mo on HNGovernment Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
6 mo on HNPropaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits
5 mo on HNPig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
5 mo on HNNSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report
4 mo on HNKim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox
4 mo on HNBreaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras
4 mo on HNre:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon
3 mo on HNIdentity 2.0 Keynote
4 mo on HN29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing and surveillance
4 mo on HNWe Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
4 mo on HNNina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference
4 mo on HNSteve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)
3 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
3 mo on HNKeynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas
4 mo on HNSlavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage
3 mo on HNEben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
4 mo on HNThe Only Safe Phone Is One Even the Police Can't Unlock
3 mo on HNDEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor
3 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
3 mo on HNThe Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit
3 mo on HNMoxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
3 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
3 mo on HN