DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly recommends it whenever fake deaths, identity verification or records fraud come up, praising how easy the attack seemed.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

DEFCONConference

Topic

death certificate fraud

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Reminds me of a DefCon speaker that talked about exploiting a bunch of websites to order death and birth certificates. Really eye opening, and potentially devastating if it's done to you. Edit: [VIDEO]

• The speaker's previous presentation at a different year of the same conference, about using online records to fabricate your own death or the birth of a made-up baby, is also worth watching: [VIDEO] .

• It's not only Facebook who have this process unsufficiently secured. The process for administering real death is also not really tamperproof. There is a hilarious defcon presentation on virtually killing someone and getting a real death certificate: [VIDEO] Improperly reporting someone dead, or misrepresenting someone's …