PickVidsBest Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime Videos
The 146 Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 18 intermediate, 120 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Black Hat, DEFCONConference, media.ccc.de.
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks
A Channel 4 News undercover investigation in which Cambridge Analytica executives are filmed discussing bribes, honeypots, fake identities and manipulating elections around the world.
re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
Eben Moglen's re:publica 2012 talk argues that media which spy on and data-mine the public threaten freedom of thought, and that free technology and free culture are needed to protect it.
Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Psychologist Robert Epstein presents a Stanford EE380 colloquium on how internet algorithms such as search rankings can manipulate opinions, purchases and votes at massive scale.
Smarter than a Smart TV! (Raspberry Pi Inside)
Jeff Geerling looks at a Sharp NEC commercial display with a slot for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module.
In Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn
Tom Scott explains how in Norway and other Nordic countries tax returns, and so individual incomes, are public.
How to use uBlock Origin to protect your online privacy and security | uBlock Origin tutorial 2018
A 2018 tutorial explaining uBlock Origin's advanced user mode, including how to block scripts and use the dynamic filtering settings.
Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security
Ivan Krstic's Black Hat talk on Apple platform security, including the Find My design that uses elliptic curve key diversification to locate offline devices privately.
NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014
Poul-Henning Kamp's FOSDEM 2014 talk presents a fictitious NSA program called ORCHESTRA, satirizing how intelligence agencies could influence startups and open source.
Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
A 32C3 talk dissecting Red Star OS, North Korea's state-built operating system.
36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
Moxie Marlinspike's 36C3 talk examines why distributed and decentralized technology is hard to build into consumer products, from the perspective of developing Signal.
The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)
The 1990 NOVA documentary follows astronomer Clifford Stoll as he tracks a hacker through military and research computer networks, a story that involved the CIA and KGB.
Best Lenny call ever! "I got to hang up. I cain't do this no longer. No, sir." (14:04)
A recorded phone call in which the Lenny bot, a looping set of prerecorded replies from a rambling old man, keeps a telemarketer on the line for 14 minutes.
The hidden background noise that can catch criminals
Tom Scott explains Electrical Network Frequency analysis, where hum from the power grid in a recording is matched against grid logs to date and place it.
30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
Trevor Paglen's 30C3 talk on photographing and documenting the secret state, including CIA flights, spy satellites and military sites, to reveal the geography of covert programs.
Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
A Channel 4 News interview with technologist Jaron Lanier, who argues that social media damages people's lives.
Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]
Jim Browning reverses a scammer's remote connection and discovers CCTV in a Delhi call centre.
5 The Lives of Others - Wiesler as a ruthless and efficient Stasi operator
A clip from the film The Lives of Others showing Wiesler as a ruthless, efficient Stasi interrogator who uses a recorded interrogation to train new officers.
Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)
minutephysics, in collaboration with the US Census Bureau, explains differential privacy and why the 2020 census adds noise to protect individuals' data.
Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
Jaron Lanier delivers the 2018 Willy Brandt Lecture in Berlin on who civilization is for, covering data, AI, tech platforms and the economics of who benefits, followed by a Q&A with Germany's data protection commissioner Ulrich Kelber.
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
Benn Jordan concludes his Flock trilogy, filmed on a publicly deployed Flock Safety camera, covering a leak of camera feeds reported by 404 Media.
Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on encryption and the Apple versus FBI dispute after San Bernardino.
How They Caught The Golden State Killer
Veritasium explains how investigators caught the Golden State Killer using forensic genealogy, matching crime scene DNA to distant relatives in public genealogy databases.
36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU
A 36C3 talk on the AMD Platform Security Processor, an undocumented ARM core inside AMD CPUs that runs before the main processor.
Tobias Engel: SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate.
Tobias Engel's 31C3 talk shows how weaknesses in the SS7 telephone signaling network let companies and attackers locate, track and manipulate phones from anywhere in the world, with precision down to about 50 meters.