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DEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
Moxie Marlinspike's DEF CON 18 talk argues that privacy threats have shifted from centralized state databases like TIA to corporate data collection by companies like Google, despite wins in strong cryptography and decentralization.
Why HN readers recommended it
Strongly recommended as a formative talk on privacy, especially for its argument that voting with your feet fails as a privacy strategy.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- DEFCONConference
- Topic
- digital privacy
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Four years ago, Moxie Marlinspike offered a good explanation of why this "vote with your feet" approach doesn't really work, at DEFCON 18. His talk is called "Changing Threats to Privacy" and I highly recommend watching it: [VIDEO] If you're impatient, you can skip the …
CodeMage on Hacker News · 2017-05
In The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized InternetI am (or was?) a huge Moxie Marlinspike fan, and highly recommend this video[0] of his from Defcon several years ago. It was formative in my understanding of privacy and security. That said, something here really doesn't add up. Being a huge fan, I took …
losvedir on Hacker News · 2022-01
In My First Impressions of Web3Moxie Marlinespike (Openwhisper Systems, Signal) makes a good argument for why that doesn't work [VIDEO] . Recommend watching the whole talk.
karangoeluw on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent
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