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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3 mo on HNIchthyology: Phishing as a Science
3 mo on HNJacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
3 mo on HNChina’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
3 mo on HNPranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
2 mo on HNDeus Ex Morpheus Conversation [1080p Widescreen]
2 mo on HN37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
2 mo on HNBrave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
2 mo on HNBeware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
2 mo on HNScammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
2 mo on HNBlack Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies
2 mo on HNHonest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law
2 mo on HNThe Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy: EventID=104573
2 mo on HNCambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks
2 mo on HNre:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
2 mo on HNSmarter than a Smart TV! (Raspberry Pi Inside)
2 mo on HNIn Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn
2 mo on HNHow to use uBlock Origin to protect your online privacy and security | uBlock Origin tutorial 2018
2 mo on HNBehind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security
2 mo on HNNSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014
2 mo on HNFlorian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
2 mo on HN36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
2 mo on HNThe KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)
2 mo on HNBest Lenny call ever! "I got to hang up. I cain't do this no longer. No, sir." (14:04)
2 mo on HNThe hidden background noise that can catch criminals
2 mo on HN30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
2 mo on HNSpying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]
2 mo on HN5 The Lives of Others - Wiesler as a ruthless and efficient Stasi operator
2 mo on HNProtecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
2 mo on HNThis Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
2 mo on HNEncryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNHow They Caught The Golden State Killer
1 mo on HN36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU
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