Christiaan008: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity", hN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the best explanation of why the CA system is broken and what alternatives exist.
- 9 HN recommenders 7 months 2011–2017talkHN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the best explanation of why the CA system is broken and what alternatives exist.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2015–2026talkHN commenters recommend it as a great, hilarious talk about legal threats and cease and desist letters.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2011–2025talkHN people treat it as the canonical C64 talk and rewatch Steil's 'Ultimate' series regularly.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2014–2021talkHN recommends it as a great walkthrough of chip reverse engineering and the story of Visual 6502.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2015–2026talkCited whenever aviation or vehicle communication security comes up, as the standard demonstration that ADS-B is naively designed and trivially spoofable.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2021talkIt is a repeat pick in 'favorite tech talk' threads as a funny, eye-opening look at how easily physical security and people can be bypassed.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2026talkHN recommends it as the primary source on Sony's ECDSA nonce-reuse blunder and the history of console cracking.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2024talkHN cites it in ECC memory debates and bit-flip discussions as concrete evidence that memory errors have real security consequences.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2015–2023talkHN points to it in threads about physical security and tamper-evident seals as an informative look at how easily they are bypassed.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2012–2019talkHN points to it as a prescient talk that discussed, in 2012, much of what Snowden's leaks later confirmed.
Questions
Which Christiaan008 video does Hacker News recommend most?
BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity: recommended in 7 different months by 9 HN users between 2011 and 2017.
Is this every Christiaan008 video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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