30c3

talks from 30c3 that i’ve found interesting: technical and political https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVgPw7TR_k – Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4 – Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMwPe2KqYn4 – Through a PRISM, Darkly – Everything we know about NSA spying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU – Jacob Applebaum: To Protect And Infect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXLaRWk1SM – CounterStrike – Lawful Interception ... Read More

the putin system

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu_h1w_vWI – cbc’s “the putin system”

The Smell of Paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqF_STyHXc / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP7D3p44Ak – another documentary by Mariusz Pilis about Jihad

Attack of the Drones – USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30 – Attack of the Drones: Is war becoming a video game Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens number of killed by dronesa in Pakistan [hm… arent Pakis ‘the good guys’?]

vpro – the food speculator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBM4WngZT4 – commodities / futures markets; seen from all the three ends – speculators, produces and consumers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU – vpro – Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

29c3

talks that were most interesting for me: political: not my department russia’s surveillance state enemies of the state technical hacking cisco phones milking the digital cash cow – [in]security of the contact-less cards Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation – you know all those cool kids going out going to clubs, ... Read More

surge 2012

talks that were interesting to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QBJOc1RSw – Mike Nolet ~ From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHN_rDj6z-M – Andrew Miklas ~ Ensuring the Call Goes Out – Everytime – ha/failover headaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCfuKZUyTko – Tom Daly ~ The Architecture Behind Super Fast DNS – Routing, Redundancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym96Z-sThZU – Surge 2012 ~ ... Read More

porn

[the results of] TEDxGlasgow – Gary Wilson – The Great Porn Experiment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJgZ4s2E3w

letter from poland

mariusz pilis – letter from poland : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6bqHONRMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iK2LQ5quSM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u68eXju_2A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-jmpBLht4 mariusz pilis – list z polski [ polskie napisy ]: https://vimeo.com/17753419

HOPE09

http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/ talks i found to be most interesting: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 Twitter Revolution Meets Surveillance State: Now What – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#twitter IPv6 Now! What Does This Mean? – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#ipv6 Keynote Address – William Binney – mass surveillance in us, political and technical part – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI privacy a postmorten – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObTjstI6f4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6B5kgBNL74 I’m Not ... Read More

the code

some pop math from bbc – the code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUp5ciynQzk [last ~15 min are missing] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lov-AjxA7kI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnI2yR1Nh5Y

status anxiety

status anxiety – socialistic sentiments aside an interesting document: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acgqf27CIU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFab92rIHRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThXcAko2KJ8

surge 2011 presentations

playlist: here most interesting [to me] talks: Keynote ~ Ben Fried A journey through the full stack in search of performance and reliability Theo Schlossnagle – Closing Plenary Theo Schlossnagle – Architectures for real-time data Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right

[pl/en] Czeczenia / Chechnya

Czeczenia – Cena prawdy / Chechnya – the price of truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKh9ls5YI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTTwVJojxQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIICOHGz94Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZKSJLZeso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCkbzoomnM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeUeLj1t_0 Chechnya The Dirty War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2medFkNhI another movie by the same director [ Mariusz Pilis ] Exit afghanistan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-R_Yp2py0

Justice with Michael Sandel

pop-philosophy [aka the light version] with a political edge: http://www.justiceharvard.org/. playlist on yt. i’ve converted all of the lectures to mp3 [using this] so now i have something to listen to during the evening walks. as a counterbalance to the ‘soft’ stuff – 28c3 recordings: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Documentation, and a list of talks; most interesting [for me] ... Read More

journalist on the frontier

robert fisk – journalist on the frontier ; semantic chaos in the way situation in the middle east is described. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1klyYcNe8#t=04m30s other lectures by him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBZ_dpiFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-py0hlRY7k