millenia111 Just the general theme of what they talk about. It usually involves "You know this thing you always use? Well if you poke it like this it steals your bank account and takes nude pictures of you and sends it to the US government."
+millenia111 I think if you studied up on most of this things from IT book or Hacking. You would appreciate the presenations more because you would be able to follow along and possible learn new nuances :))
thats what i thought...i tried to watch the other defcon videos by the different speakers but i cant help to fall asleep.....with his talk, im so in to it, i feel so inspired, motivated...and feel drawn in
DEF CON 19 - Richard Thieme - Staring into the Abyss I can't watch this guy without pausing every ten or so minutes, going out for a smoke to digest what he hits my brain with also johnny long, jason scott are awesome
"stalking a city for fun and frivolity" is one of the best talks I've seen, along with John Long's no-tech hacking. or the Gobble security talk at defcon 10 if you can deal with low quality
Now the NSA knows I watched this video, and they will think I'm going to use this knowledge for bad stuff. I'm not a drug dealer, I just want to learn about computers and networking for constructive stuff.
+The Rektifier Aw shit, me too. Well, as long as they think I'm going to do bad things, I may as well do them. I should be on a list for a good reason rather than for a stupid reason.
"Sometimes, to show there's a better way to do things, you need to break some rules." This is absolutely true, but the kind of megalomaniacs one finds in positions of authority hate being shown their flaws more than they hate the actual rule-breaking.
To those saying "Oh god now because I watched this I'm on a watchlist": As far as I can tell, the NSA doesn't care about you for watching some RU-vid videos about this. That just says "I think hacker stuff is cool", and there are a million of those. It's when you start doing things that say "I've got something to hide". Such as using Tor, VPN, doing weird things with your IP address, etc. If the NSA sees you sit there totally exposed like everyone else, oblivious, and then they see you watch this, that is very, very weak evidence of anything. The people who they are after have *very* different digital behavior from normal people. It's like worrying that you'll be busted for cooking meth because you watched a VICE documentary.
Jotto999 tbh they don’t have to care they run algos that search for all the signs searching certain stuff will get picked up and stored and once your marked it’s gonna build a profile of everything that you do that fits its parameters
from an older man who thinks you guys are great. I openly & fully support the internet defenders league & you are so right about the Australian government sending their sniffing offshore for plausible deniability. then if they think but cannot prove they run interference cheers
Here's what you shouldn't do: Tell everyone on the internet how you protect yourself, cause if one vulnerability on any of the things you said is found, anyone knows how to get you The best protection isn't defense, it's stealth
On Defcon there are some serious people over there that hack anything with an operating system and you won't even know it. Some people there are straight up dangerous but it's pretty fun walking around a hell of a lot of people and thinking: which one of these is the real deal.
We should have a day where we all,or try to, use tor for that one day non stop to have a flood of connections and make it even harder for NSA to track some people......
Jgomez836 or if everyone set up a bot to parse search through a wordlist, and for every search you do there are 50 searches for random things like cats or your youtube creator’s videos to boost their algorithms
This is true... However, they are removing hay from the general populous (those they aren't worried about) and throwing it on the smaller pile of targets. Yes the amount of targets makes it harder, but relative to the general populous they are being separated from, it is much easier than, say, trying to focus on everybody, which is what they really want.
@ScoutSniper it did not go over my head. If you think it's realistic for everyone to use tor, you're a moron. Nothing went over my head. I know exactly what he said, and it is wishful thinking at best.
@ScoutSniper I do say so. This was years ago, and tor is still only used by a fraction of internet users. You can say whatever you want about what if they all used it; they don't, and they never will unless drastic changes take place.
As someone who is still under 25, it took me a very long time to figure out who's in the middle of 11:00. Like, is it not Ghandi? No... Gandhi never seemed to have much hostilities with US... Wait he looks Asian, is he Sun Yat-sen? Nope. Oh it's Japan's leader Tōjō Hideki. Make sense now. So the guy on the left is Benito Mussolini? Cool I thought that he was some Soviet people.
Fucking excellent! ZoZ is a boss! Im a little like millenia111 in that im absolutely not techno-savvy, but I love watching both Defcon and BlackHat talks! Utmost respect!
TextSecure (android) / Signal (ios) are worth considering if you want E2E/OTR crypto on mobile. Keys are trusted by default, but to me that's a fair compromise so Grandma can use it without knowing about key exchange.
I appreciate just about everything in this video. Except the references to his fetish porn. Just seems highly inappropriate and is distracting to the main argument of the video. Next time I encourage you to keep it professional and keep porn where it belongs, in your private life and completely anonymous.
Matters Nawt is just an outsider who doesn't know anything about the decades old culture partly shown in the videos of these conferences. I mean, consider the fact that defcon isn't generally that professional in the first place. I mean usually everyone gets drunk including the speakers. Also the "keep porn completely anonymous where it belongs" line is hilarious. Yeah, this guy has no idea where he is or why telling people to adhere to social rules regarding porn on a fucking defcon video is retarded.
And this is why you will never belong. No sense of humor. The comment took nothing away from anything presented here. If you think it does, it says something about you; not the presentation.
Most hackers are geeks and not about any kind of criminal life. When they get caught they roll... Minus like two high profile guys in the past three decades.
lul running tor on my phone... there are good browsers for android like "naked browser" that DON'T reflesh everything constantly, you can basically run linux cli tools on android too, so if your phone is rooted then you can do ANYTHING, including a full-on linux install that replaces android...or just add a ton of security features, such as denying all non-https traffic and stuff...
Defcon is a conference, not a group. That fictional group is obviously a dramatization and romanticized interpretation of similar real world groups, so you can't expect a very accurate portrayal.
+root halo and "Lose the ego" is the key line here though. Hackers of the world, take fucking note. No one is the best in the hacker world. tryhards are so cringey.
Wikipedia would never spread that non-sense.. stop giving Wikipedia a bad name, yes it's easily manipulated to suit business plans but it's still a great point of reference.
+Natalie Spa If you only want 10% of the topic you're looking for. And yes, most of the time not 100% correct. Let's call the child by it's name, Wikipedia... a no go for those, who want the 100% truth and 100% of the topic.
heard this from another talk, forgot if it was black cat or defcon but apparently that phone thing, the agents thought that a chip packet would act a faraday cage and prevent the phone from being tracked
