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

Why HN readers recommended it

Praised as a charismatic, engaging talk with practical security lessons, like why credit cards protect you better than debit cards.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Talks at Google

Topic

fraud and social engineering

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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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• I bumped into this talk today: Frank Abagnale: "Catch Me If You Can" [VIDEO] He became an FBI agent and works with data breaches. So after entertainingly describing his life story he does mention the Equifax breach at the 37m mark. He paints a very …

• He did a talk at Google where he asserted basically the same thing: [VIDEO] Great talk by the way, he's an incredibly charismatic and well spoken story teller, also a consultant for the FBI and a successful businessman - which makes you think about just …

• Offtopic, Frank Abnegale ( Catch me if you can fame ) also says the same thing in his [1] lecture at Google. The whole lecture is also pretty interesting. One of the best google talks I have seen. [1]: [VIDEO]