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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1 mo on HNOchko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev
1 mo on HNAlexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17
1 mo on HNHow China Tracks Everyone
1 mo on HNDefcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov
1 mo on HNThe Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video
1 mo on HNCryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
1 mo on HNDNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans
1 mo on HNDNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
1 mo on HNWhy are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214
1 mo on HNGlitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
1 mo on HNTrusted Computing? Yes or No
1 mo on HNLocksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)
1 mo on HNYou Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again.
1 mo on HNGod Mode (Person of Interest)(2 x 22)
1 mo on HNFacebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
1 mo on HNData | Philosophy Tube
1 mo on HNPdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
1 mo on HNElliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile
1 mo on HNDEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
1 mo on HNUTOPIA | Omeleto
1 mo on HNThe Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
1 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the Booters
1 mo on HNIs Google always listening: Live Test
0 mo on HNSneakers (1992): My Voice Is My Passport
0 mo on HNIntel ME explained (intel management engine) from insider
0 mo on HNThe Program - William Binney Interview
0 mo on HNWiretapping the Secret Service can be easy and fun | Bryan Seely | TEDxKirkland
0 mo on HNMinority Report - Personal Advertising in the Future
0 mo on HNThe Laws of Mathematics are commendable
0 mo on HNSatoshi Has No Clothes: Failures in On-Chain Privacy by Ian Miers (Devcon4)
0 mo on HNGmail Man! (Microsoft's anti-Google video promoting Office 365)
0 mo on HNGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy
0 mo on HNJames Clapper (DNI) Lies to the Senate About the NSA
0 mo on HN10 Questions: Warrantless Wiretaps
0 mo on HNChina’s "Social Credit System" Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming (HBO)
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