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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.

10 mo on HN

Defcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part

killab66661
6 HN recommender · 2012–2019
9 mo on HN

This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN

Tom Scott
9 HN recommender · 2019–2026
9 mo on HN

America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has

CGP Grey
14 HN recommender · 2017–2024
7 mo on HN

Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
8 mo on HN

#HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

Hack In The Box Security Conference
9 HN recommender · 2013–2024
6 mo on HN

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014

Black Hat
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
6 mo on HN

28c3: The coming war on general computation

28c3
6 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HN

DEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!

DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HN

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
5 HN recommender · 2022–2024
6 mo on HN

Civil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2012–2026
6 mo on HN

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

TED
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HN

DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

DEFCONConference
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
5 mo on HN

Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
6 mo on HN

Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits

Extra Credits
7 HN recommender · 2015–2018
5 mo on HN

Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
5 HN recommender · 2024–2025
5 mo on HN

NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

HUP
9 HN recommender · 2014–2019
4 mo on HN

Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox

TheBitcoinArmy
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
4 mo on HN

Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

Benn Jordan
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HN

re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

re:publica
5 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HN

Identity 2.0 Keynote

Dan Lewis
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
4 mo on HN

29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing and surveillance

thisdayinwikileaks
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
4 mo on HN

We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥

Benn Jordan
4 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HN

Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

Steve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)

iwasjojo
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

DEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google

DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HN

Keynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas

EuroBSDCon
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
4 mo on HN

Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage

Det Kgl. Bibliotek
3 HN recommender · 2014–2016
3 mo on HN

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

Punkcast
3 HN recommender · 2011–2018
4 mo on HN

The Only Safe Phone Is One Even the Police Can't Unlock

CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HN

DEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor

DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HN

DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught

DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HN

The Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit

Concordia
4 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HN

Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014

Techworld Sverige
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
3 mo on HN

Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies

Black Hat
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HN

DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)

Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story

Australian Phoenix CyberOps
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025