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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.

1 mo on HN

Ochko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev

Black Hat
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Alexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17

OMR
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HN

How China Tracks Everyone

VICE News
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov

killab66661
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HN

The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

Abe Davis's Research
1 HN recommend · 2015–2026
1 mo on HN

Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control

aantonop
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

DNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans

Ron Wyden
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HN

DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2018–2019
1 mo on HN

Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2020–2020
1 mo on HN

Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)

Mark Rober
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

Trusted Computing? Yes or No

Robin Good
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HN

Locksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)

CBC News
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

You Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again.

Matt and Tom
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HN

God Mode (Person of Interest)(2 x 22)

Person of Interest Highlights
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN

Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network

c0pyr1gh7
1 HN recommend · 2012–2023
1 mo on HN

Data | Philosophy Tube

Philosophy Tube
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

PdF YouTube
1 HN recommend · 2011–2023
1 mo on HN

Elliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile

Computerphile
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

DEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution

Christiaan008
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HN

UTOPIA | Omeleto

Omeleto
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HN

The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9

The Onion
1 HN recommend · 2013–2024
1 mo on HN

Black Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the Booters

Black Hat
1 HN recommend · 2016–2017
1 mo on HN

Is Google always listening: Live Test

Mitchollow
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
0 mo on HN

Sneakers (1992): My Voice Is My Passport

badvertised
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HN

Intel ME explained (intel management engine) from insider

jessie
0 HN recommender · 2023–2023
0 mo on HN

The Program - William Binney Interview

TheDigitalperipheral
0 HN recommender · 2013–2025
0 mo on HN

Wiretapping the Secret Service can be easy and fun | Bryan Seely | TEDxKirkland

TEDx Talks
0 HN recommender · 2018–2024
0 mo on HN

Minority Report - Personal Advertising in the Future

dscmailtest
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HN

The Laws of Mathematics are commendable

Jack Larkin
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HN

Satoshi Has No Clothes: Failures in On-Chain Privacy by Ian Miers (Devcon4)

Ethereum Foundation
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HN

Gmail Man! (Microsoft's anti-Google video promoting Office 365)

Rishabh Singla
0 HN recommender · 2014–2020
0 mo on HN

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy

theyTOLDyou
0 HN recommender · 2010–2022
0 mo on HN

James Clapper (DNI) Lies to the Senate About the NSA

StopProgressivism
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HN

10 Questions: Warrantless Wiretaps

Barack Obama
0 HN recommender · 2013–2014
0 mo on HN

China’s "Social Credit System" Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming (HBO)

VICE News
0 HN recommender · 2018–2019
0 mo on HN

GrapheneOS: Documenting Numerous Attacks Against CalyxOS,, Techlore, & More

Techlore
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026