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Security

DEF CON talks, cryptography and the history of the people who broke things.

50 entries, about 36 hours of single videos. Bloom scroll this shelf

50 entries
25 min But how does bitcoin actually work?3Blue1Brown

Sorry, on mobile so not very detailed, but the YouTube user 3Blue1Brown, who has ~275k followed and posts fantastic videos about math, just posted a video describing how Bitcoin works. We should lobby him to do an Ethereum video! Here is his channel page. Idk how best to lobby him.

Posted to r/ethereum

Series HACKING GOOGLEGoogle

Really nice 6 episode series from Google that gives an inside look into their security & incident response teams.

Recommended in r/cybersecurity

Questions about security videos

Where should I start with security videos?

Good first picks here, chosen by the list’s editor because they build ideas up from the basics, are But how does bitcoin actually work? (25 min) and How Does SHA-256 Work? (23 min).

Are there short security videos?

Yes. 10 run under 15 minutes, including The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm (6 min) and The RSA Encryption Algorithm (1 of 2: Computing an Example) (9 min).

Are there full security courses or lecture series?

3 entries are full course, lecture or playlist, such as HACKING GOOGLE and BBS: The Documentary.

Where on Reddit were these security videos shared?

Most came up in r/cybersecurity (14), r/hacking (9) and r/HowToHack (8). A mention can be a recommendation, a question or an argument, and each video’s page says which it was.

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