DEF CON 32 - Counter Deception: Defending Yourself in a World Full of Lies - Tom Cross, Greg Conti

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
  • The Internet was supposed to give us access to the world's information, so that people, everywhere, would be able to know the truth. But that’s not how things worked out. Instead, we have a digital deception engine of global proportions. Nothing that comes through the screen can be trusted, and even the things that are technically true have been selected, massaged, and amplified in support of someone’s messaging strategy.
    Deception isn’t just about narratives - we see deception at every layer of the network stack, from spoofed electromagnetic signatures, to false flags in malware, to phony personas used to access networks and spread influence. They hide in our blindspots, exploit our biases, and fill our egos while manipulating our perceptions.
    How do we decide what is real? This talk examines time-tested maxims that teach the craft of effective deception, and then inverts those offensive principles to provide defensive strategies. We’ll explore ways to counter biases, triangulate information sources, detect narratives, and how hackers can build tools that can change the game.
    At their best, hackers lift their heads up above the masses to see how the world actually works, not how it purports to work, and then take action to make the world a better place. You’ll leave this talk with practical skills to do just that.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 574

  • @7_of_9
    @7_of_9 Місяць тому +406

    The 1990s was such an amazing time. Remember when the Internet warned you not to give out your email, real name or anything real to the Internet and all you needed was a username and password to set-up an account, no email required.

    • @nirv
      @nirv Місяць тому +50

      Exactly. I tried teaching people this but the cell phone crowd doesn't get it.

    • @moggadah
      @moggadah Місяць тому +26

      @@nirv governments don't want us to be anonymous and yes, it's risky allowing anonymity. Terrorists, organized crime and adversary governments gladly use anonymity. Non-anonymity is also great for business since people become trackable, predictable and possible to influence.

    • @lopwidth7343
      @lopwidth7343 Місяць тому

      The golden era of the internet reached a bit into the 2000. Before monetised UA-cam and before doxxing yourself was required. I remember linkedIn got handed all my information from my government in a surreal twist of being doxxed for the first time, which was absolutely insane coming from the era of not putting real information on the internet

    • @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне
      @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне Місяць тому +17

      @@moggadah national goverments have nothing to do with this (except maybe for US fed gov that is just a bunch of tightly coupled family corporations).

    • @moggadah
      @moggadah Місяць тому +2

      @@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне these are just my thoughts. Given the rise of disinformation, terrorist coordination and organized crime online governments are less eager to protect online anonymity. If citizens use the tools to communicate that large corporations, which are willing to cooperate with governments, provide governments are rather "happy" and maybe think less about what the cooperations do with user information. This makes "truly anonymous" tools more a threat to governments.

  • @4ci4
    @4ci4 20 днів тому +74

    "The vulnerable mind fits ambiguous information to its own preconceptions and expectations."

  • @dandeeteeyem2170
    @dandeeteeyem2170 Місяць тому +169

    We have a winner. Hands down the most important talk of the con. This should be a month long course in primary school. Well done guys, thorough and excellent depth. More relevant today than ever before ❤

    • @JeniElbedour
      @JeniElbedour 6 днів тому

      Primary school? Really?

    • @dandeeteeyem2170
      @dandeeteeyem2170 6 днів тому +2

      @JeniElbedour yes. Before the rest of the indoctrination takes place

    • @sweetlulu4306
      @sweetlulu4306 4 години тому

      Yes, teach critical thinking just like Finland has been doing because they are neighbors with the disinformation machine Russia.

  • @krystlea5210
    @krystlea5210 29 днів тому +135

    "The purpose of the internet and computers is to make persons smarter. If we forget this, we will make the wrong things."

    • @tictacterminator
      @tictacterminator 26 днів тому +1

      that sounds orwellian
      how can you make wrong things?

    • @DrOfRunescape
      @DrOfRunescape 23 дні тому +5

      Internet The greatest surveillance System Ever made. 😂

    • @oxydoxxo
      @oxydoxxo 22 дні тому +1

      That's cute

    • @Turco949
      @Turco949 20 днів тому

      I don't believe anything can make a person smarter yet alone Internet where not everything is 100% true or complete. If nothing else, Internet was supposed to be a source of information to allow people to educate themselves so they could make better decisions. Sadly, Internet became nothing more than a reflection of real life, with all its imperfections, deceptions, greed and evil but on a worlwide scale. It is a lot like money where some say, money doesn't corrupt you, it merely brings out whatever virtues or character flaws you have out. Same with Internet.

    • @Aerial.Imaging
      @Aerial.Imaging 15 днів тому

      the sad part is smartphones have created dumb people it is out of this world, Take their phones away and watch how they fare in life. (Google said) Lmfao

  • @MichaelGowland
    @MichaelGowland 4 дні тому +6

    This is a great talk, and one that should reach more than just thee hacking community. I particularly like you "fun-house of mirrors" metaphor - but that really points to what I see as the limitations of your talk, which is obviously primarily focused on the strategies we can use for counter deception. But what you strongly imply at the start of your talk is that we have created a new and unique information space in which people are actively embracing and enjoying deception -- and they are not just taking pleasure in deceiving others. In the past one of the main drivers of deception was duper's delight, people taking pleasure in putting one over on others, but outside of theatre and magic shows people did not take pleasure in being deceived in quite the way they seem to now - in the social media information space people actually enjoy the idea that they can escape the limitations of truth and enter a space in which you can be anything or anyone - in which we can play with deception to create any "reality" we want. I believe that Putin and the C.C.P. and Donald Trump have a major advantage in this "post modern playground" for they have conspicuously and deliberately using the techniques of deception, and the willingness of marks to collude in self-deception, for a very long time. But, of course, the real problem is that so have we, we have just been a bit less honest with ourselves.
    I think your technical and tactical responses to deception are important, but to be honest I think that they are bound to fail unless we can actually manage to get sufficient people on board with the idea that truth and integrity matter, and that when treating with an enemy it is actually considerably better to establish a conduit for exchanging true and comprehensive information that can be known to be trustworthy than to manipulate your enemy by deception. The former can lead to finding common interests and establishing a sustainable constructive relationship, the latter will only lead to mistrust and further conflict in the future. Until enough of us really understand that, we are doomed to fight the infowars endlessly.

  • @PepePentester
    @PepePentester 23 дні тому +20

    Incredible seminar, I think the driving point of hackers/pentesters using their skillset to basically become investigative journalists is the ethos we should take on. It takes independent eyes to see through bias and get closer to the truth.

  • @daviddunkelheit9952
    @daviddunkelheit9952 Місяць тому +209

    Classical Ethics should be taught in schools again.

    • @cybersecurity4052
      @cybersecurity4052 Місяць тому +24

      being ethical is not profitable

    • @jonathanalpart7812
      @jonathanalpart7812 Місяць тому +7

      All that does is teach criminals how to take greater advantage of people

    • @myfaveyoutube
      @myfaveyoutube Місяць тому +7

      Should be a component of every curriculum!

    • @dreadspacepirate
      @dreadspacepirate Місяць тому +12

      Being taught something and realizing the thing for yourself are two separate things

    • @itzhexen0
      @itzhexen0 Місяць тому

      @@jonathanalpart7812 Odds are is it's that this is just projection as you're most likely criminals. Which is why you're commenting on this channel.

  • @katrinakelly5908
    @katrinakelly5908 9 днів тому +3

    🎉 Thank you!!! Please continue your important work...for technological innovation and for human evolution! 👏🏼

  • @przemysawopacinski4780
    @przemysawopacinski4780 21 день тому +12

    We need more education oriented people like this

  • @GrimmSmile23
    @GrimmSmile23 25 днів тому +11

    What a gold mine. So much said and shared, deeply inspiring speech. Thank you all. And thank you for watching dear reader.

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta 10 днів тому +5

    The internet can't make us smarter but it's a treasure chest of information.

  • @jimmygravitt1048
    @jimmygravitt1048 Місяць тому +27

    This was probably the best DefCon talk I have heard.

    • @tradingarsenal9767
      @tradingarsenal9767 26 днів тому

      This was amazing! If you haven't seen the talk on how the FBI broke into ANOM encrypted phones, def. check it out!

  • @GiveThemHorns
    @GiveThemHorns 28 днів тому +19

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Tom Cross' Criminal Records [store] shirt was inspired Pretty Hate Machine /s

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta 10 днів тому +2

    I admit that I'm relieved when I read or hear from someone who sees things as I do but I am teachable.

  • @JustinPandelo
    @JustinPandelo 8 днів тому +6

    Gentlemen, thank you. The web has been a desert of low vibrational thinking & I've looked for what seemed like ages to find my tribe. It was refreshing to find this first principles based pragmatic thinking in an ocean of reactionary, triggered willfully blind people who favor trauma bonding over critical thinking & personal development. Will be seeking your content out & following this rabbit hole to augment the work I have already been doing. Again you are appreciated.

    • @Ekam-Sat
      @Ekam-Sat 7 днів тому +1

      There’s no money in high vibrational thinking or should I say ultra low vibrational thinking because where there’s no motion there is no money to be made. If you want the vibrational thinking of the source, you have to search for specific term with quotation marks such as “differentiation within oneness”, “Ekam sat” or “Ek Sat”, “Ek Onkar” or “The Big Bang is a Singularity”. Personally, but I do not want to influence you, the teachings of Jesus as outlined in the new Testament are pretty spot on. They were born from the realisation that is described in Genesis or John. I’m not an Indian, but if I were, I would say that there is only Shiva. Since I was raised Catholic, I will say that there is only Jesus a.k.a. God.

    • @JustinPandelo
      @JustinPandelo 6 днів тому

      @@Ekam-Sat Appreciate it brother, but I have a different perspective on religion/Jesus. ua-cam.com/video/Jd-VAyxQ5ao/v-deo.html

  • @kschleic9053
    @kschleic9053 27 днів тому +47

    @29:30 he is describing investigative journalism. The entire reason people paid for newspapers was because investigative journalists would go out and find the facts that were being left out of the story.

    • @PuBearsticks
      @PuBearsticks 10 днів тому +2

      Well now advertisers pay for the news. Journalistic integrity is, for the most part, a thing of the past

    • @mikethebloodthirsty
      @mikethebloodthirsty 7 днів тому

      You had it on TV in the 90s in the UK.... You COULD NOT imagine these programmes getting on TV now, it's controlled by the government.

    • @lefthookouchmcarm4520
      @lefthookouchmcarm4520 7 днів тому

      Opinionated news media wield a significant influence over the population, often in subtle and psychologically sophisticated ways. This influence stems from a blend of emotional appeal, authority, repetition, and narrative framing, among other fairly well-known tactics.

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 6 днів тому +1

      "Journalists used to be watchdogs, now they are lapdogs." ~~ Mike Royko

    • @DiggySoze
      @DiggySoze 3 дні тому +1

      Stop following corporations and start paying attention to who wrote the articles. There are individuals you will find credible at nearly every outlet. Corporations have no scruples.

  • @michele2716
    @michele2716 15 днів тому +2

    Such a valuable and unique presentation; covers a lot of complicated info in an interesting and understandable way. Thank you!

  • @brianhirt5027
    @brianhirt5027 29 днів тому +8

    perhaps one of the most important DEFCON talks in years. There is so much more they didn't have the space to get into, but it would make for a fantastic follow-up or talking about a lot of practical wisdom that could be exported out of the DNI constellation. The so called "Moscow rules" alone could form two whole separate presentations!
    He is wrong on one thing though. Hackers themselves are just as vulnerable to groupthink, suffer from some of the very biases & foibles he laments in the rest of society. If he has a failing, it is in the mistaken belief that you hackers are better people than you all have generally proven yourselves to be. He thinks far more highly of you all than you deserve.
    ...I wonder how many, if any of you will ever challenge yourself to live up to those higher expectations someday.

  • @luminousfractal420
    @luminousfractal420 7 днів тому +4

    the problem is never the tools, its those that use them. its a wide open universe. its us we have to fix

  • @soyunkope
    @soyunkope 5 днів тому

    The metaphor used to describe fact-cherry-picking as a way for deception was so amazingly on point, I'm deeply thankful for that one. I'll use it and reference it in all future talks about post-truth and the like. Amazing presentation, many thanks and mucha suerte!

  • @nexovec
    @nexovec 21 день тому +8

    Into the knowledge playlist you go.

  • @devmess7967
    @devmess7967 29 днів тому +13

    Awesome shirt. Looks like a throwback to "Pretty Hate Machine" by Nine Inch Nails. o7

    • @iangarrison9516
      @iangarrison9516 28 днів тому +4

      It took me a couple minutes in and focusing on the shirt to realize it wasn’t 😅

  • @Natervader13
    @Natervader13 28 днів тому +5

    Wonderful talk. Wish it was a more prominent one in wider society.

  • @PavelHenkin
    @PavelHenkin Місяць тому +4

    That was a great talk with many intersting and important ideas. I really wish i had time to pursue.. any of them. Great stuff

  • @davidcahan
    @davidcahan 6 днів тому +1

    Without the modem Internet, I wouldn't have been offered this video in my feed and I would have been that much less informed. While I agree generally with the sentiments in this video, I also disagree as well. I feel more informed and with a profoundly greater ability to get informed if I choose to do so

  • @roegoleg
    @roegoleg 4 дні тому +2

    Regardless of the era and the innovation involved, the threat is due to human motivation for power, greed, ideology. An individual cannot do this alone. The nation state alone has the resources to use the technology of the time for their purposes. History has shown where the threat to global stability has consistently been borne.

  • @timothythegreat6294
    @timothythegreat6294 11 годин тому

    this is so cool !!!!!!! wow godspeed to you guys man this is soulfood

  • @iangarrison9516
    @iangarrison9516 28 днів тому +1

    I’m floored. What a great presentation. Lots of potential here.

  • @luke.perkin.inventor
    @luke.perkin.inventor 28 днів тому +16

    The colour coded Wikipedia recent edits idea is great, it could be applied widely. I think we all want a web interface that "reads ahead of us" like a minefield, with a skeptical eye, writes a snopes article, summarises it without a clickbait title, and highlights the venn diagram of good and dodgy sources with no integrity, fact checking or history of printing retractions that underpin it.

    • @MargoTheNerd
      @MargoTheNerd 25 днів тому +2

      So, like ground news or Twitter fact check but better but for everything? I wish. Imagine the fervor of religious fanatics and flat earthers..
      I think you are right that there is a need, specifically the ability to make up back up "evidence" images good enough to convince at least the non-tech savvy folks (and anyone in a rush).

    • @filip0x0a98
      @filip0x0a98 24 дні тому

      How do you write a function: is_true(whatever) ? I am afraid you cannot do that, AFAIK you could only refer to some other source(s) and compare, but that just moves the problem further along the way. So as I see it, there is no (easy) way out of this problem, like with everything, only mitigations.

    • @luke.perkin.inventor
      @luke.perkin.inventor 24 дні тому +1

      @@filip0x0a98 I think he kinda covered it in the talk, the tool has to build up an index of individuals and sources that supply the knowledge graph. Ideally it'd be more complex though, factoring in the vested interests of each source, how much they benefit from long term journalistic integrity over short term clicks.

    • @filip0x0a98
      @filip0x0a98 24 дні тому +1

      ​@@luke.perkin.inventor Well I understand that. But that does not tell you whether it is true or not. There is still the problem of assigning credibility to your sources -- and even then, it is still only "This statement (dis)agreess with this source" so as I see it fundementally the same problem. My point being, you still have to figure out who to trust (and for what...)
      Not saying it could not be useful. Just that I see some problems with it. Distrusting the "trust machine" as it were.

    • @luke.perkin.inventor
      @luke.perkin.inventor 23 дні тому

      @@MargoTheNerd it's actually a really profound point, you have to be fair and humane to the crazies, no gulags, just gentle nudges towards the enlightenment, respect for rule of law, and a social contract for honesty. It seems impossible to build trust when populist leaders are the antithesis of this. As @filip0x0a98 is struggling with.

  • @z3r0trust
    @z3r0trust Місяць тому +4

    Love this talk. Excellent. 👍

  • @ScottDoler9000
    @ScottDoler9000 19 днів тому +4

    This guy is speaking my language.

  • @soundscholar5408
    @soundscholar5408 День тому

    Seems like the only way to counter all of this efficiently is knowing where you are and being where you want to be.

  • @vikrantvijit1436
    @vikrantvijit1436 24 дні тому +1

    Thanks 👍 for sharing your valuable wisdom on the counter deception which is a norm masking meta reality engineering gamified worldviews.😊❤

  • @BH-qs7vo
    @BH-qs7vo 20 днів тому +23

    I love how shitty the internet is getting.
    I get outside more and am happier.
    Never should have trust the unix eunichs to do anything for us.

    • @foodchewer
      @foodchewer 10 днів тому

      I like your dialectical perspective on this. Very nice.

    • @RadioVictor
      @RadioVictor 8 днів тому +1

      Based

    • @foodchewer
      @foodchewer 8 днів тому

      @RadioVictor yeah, definitely based.

    • @CunningOfReason
      @CunningOfReason День тому

      😂 f the nerds and stupid people.

  • @kender1412
    @kender1412 29 днів тому +38

    The problem with Wikipedia isn't that anybody can edit it. The problem is partially in how it ranks the hierarchy of editors by number of edits and that a reletive few number of people who have an agenda are making LOTS of changes all the time. There are many times that I have made edits with many times more academic and media citations (balanced towards academics and peer reviewed studies) than amthe few sentences I edited, that were reverted minutes later to what it was before, with one or two media sources, the articles being cited reporting on an article that the original publication had retracted as being false. The person who reverted the entry was one of these who "police" Wikipedia and have high ranking in the Wikipedia editors group. This has happened to me MANY times and when I point out that the publication had issued a retraction of the story, acknowledging that it was false and misleading in the discussion group, In simply told that the source at the end of the news equivalent of the human centipede was a credible source and the information was just as valid as the retraction and dozens of peer reviewed studies in top rated journals.

    • @ince55ant
      @ince55ant 29 днів тому +3

      sometimes people just dont like that it wasnt them getting the credit. like im imagining that if you just handed over all your hard work to one of these established editors and told them they could take the credit, your change would have been made

    • @JayDee-b5u
      @JayDee-b5u 29 днів тому

      No. Wikipedia is psy-op trash. Any meaningful dissenting information is censored.

    • @Rockyzach88
      @Rockyzach88 28 днів тому +1

      Seems like more than just their ranking issue. If someone is just straight up refusing facts that's a whole different thing.

    • @-danR
      @-danR 27 днів тому

      I stopped editing articles 15 years ago when it became clear that the hierarchical overburden of editorial cultists-the masters of obscure Wiki rule arcana-stopped making it worthwhile. Once a week or so I throw in my two ¢ worth in a talk page, stopping every so often to survey the ubiquitous terrible dynasties of indented disputes that would extend above my ceiling were they in print concerning a Wiki article on a topic so obscure (Boson Color Gauge Invariance In Field Spin Chromodynamics [I just made that up]) and presented so malformed that nobody is going to care, save my two lines and leave. I've got the red and blue message notifications at the top for who knows what because haven't looked into them in over a decade.

    • @genxvrx
      @genxvrx 25 днів тому +1

      Some example articles?

  • @VictoriaAlfredSmythe
    @VictoriaAlfredSmythe День тому +1

    THANK YOU FROM MANHATTAN

  • @ince55ant
    @ince55ant 29 днів тому +12

    the AI images were actually a genius touch, their uncanny valley nature triggers the skepticism parts of the brain, which is perfect for this talk

    • @RPanda3S
      @RPanda3S 11 днів тому

      Great observation.

  • @forcedtoregister100
    @forcedtoregister100 29 днів тому +1

    Outstanding! I'm so happy this was released

  • @kirkstable
    @kirkstable Місяць тому +14

    Counter deception is a straightforward business

    • @colem7173
      @colem7173 29 днів тому +3

      Thanks for confirming my bias!

  • @pauliedibbs9028
    @pauliedibbs9028 8 днів тому

    Been looking forward to a real discussion on this... for a long time now....
    EDIT: I believe "we" have something to blame for this, but should not be looked at as the primary facet here... Everyone has been victim to conditioning.

  • @think-about-it-777
    @think-about-it-777 27 днів тому +3

    people should be required to watch this video before using the internet or voting

    • @poupous5454
      @poupous5454 19 днів тому +1

      Tri0le 7 check it Karo data my Mind's 3ye

  • @bitegoatie
    @bitegoatie 29 днів тому +8

    Analytical.
    Good talk, leaving aside the language errors, from two guys who make a real effort to teach. This is not always true. These guys clearly care about getting their ideas across, with emphasis on making us wiser regarding our uses of technology. Of course, a lot of this has applicability in many contexts in our social interactions.
    One serious flaw was the false story about journalism. The "both sides" story about journalism is a new thing. People concerned journalism is not all it could be because of the business model of running news organizations is an old thing, but a distinct thing from the modern problem of American journalism disconnecting itself by design from fact finding. The latter is a political response to the 200-year-old fourth-estate model of journalism as a practice that follows the facts of a story and reminding people of news-relevant context. By the seventies, with Watergate having driven a president from office (and other figures, including that crook's vice president) and scores of stories for the prior few decades having burned the party of business and wealth, the elite of that party leaned heavily into the propaganda element of their "slanted, liberal media" line.
    Meanwhile, some wealthy right-wing activists lined up some grant money to influence various universities that had or wanted to have journalism programs, with the guiding theme being what would later become a slogan at a newfangled news service doing something called "fair and balanced" reporting. In fact, that latter service turned out, on balance, not to be fair at all, which turned out to be the point. By the middle years of the nineties, however, a wave of newly minted journalism graduates were just getting into management positions across the country with talk about how journalism could only be taken seriously if it steered a central course between the two political parties, which were sliding, uncoincidentally, to the right year by year. Tethering stories to the relevant facts, regardless of the benefit to or the detriment to political figures, was out after a very brief struggle, and "fair and balanced" was in fashion. This political depoliticizing of the news is very much a product of the times. We had a long history of leading news organizations following facts, highlighting relevant history, and exposing inconsistencies, lies, and malfeasance by leading figures of the day. While it was in motion before the main impact of the web and then social media, the "both sides" model of casting most news stories in supposedly neutral political terms is very much a product of the eighties and the revenge-of-the-rich perversity that continues to plague education, journalism, and, as a result, all American society. It has brought us, by undermining the institutions that make it possible to develop and to be informed, educated voters, to the verge of autocracy, with one of the two major parties abandoning its commitment to fair, all-citizen voting and to representative government.
    Misunderstanding the history here is a big mistake, but it is a small piece of this talk.

  • @herzeliedstein573
    @herzeliedstein573 11 днів тому +3

    Loving the talk so far, but the AI art is killllling me, ugh

  • @C4_Anon
    @C4_Anon 16 днів тому +9

    Yeah we are gonna need more discussion about people lying it is non stop and everywhere. Everyone u know. Secrets.
    Dont even think im competing against real people online anymore. I see things. I notice

    • @jackdrippin
      @jackdrippin 10 днів тому +5

      It’s a slippery slope to paranoia tho ain’t it

    • @hijackhypergamy
      @hijackhypergamy 4 дні тому +2

      And Marc Randolph co-founder of Netflix, the psychological terraforming company, the paternal great grand nephew of Sigmund Freud and the paternal grand nephew of Edward Bernays.

  • @Lojdika
    @Lojdika Місяць тому +8

    I would argue bug hunting strengthens the spidy sense and hammers the "don't believe everything you think" motto.

    • @bryandraughn9830
      @bryandraughn9830 28 днів тому +1

      Being critical of one's own conclusions is a major breakthrough.
      Almost knocked me down when it hit me.

    • @iangarrison9516
      @iangarrison9516 28 днів тому

      @@bryandraughn9830THIS! 100 times over. Took me far too long to realize the game I was playing. A game of deceiving myself.
      Unfortunately, this is one of those things that easy person has to see for themselves. They could easily read these comments and still “not get it”.

  • @jimmygravitt1048
    @jimmygravitt1048 Місяць тому +6

    Vannevar Bush is a distant cousin of Prescott Bush. That doesn't mean anything, but it is interesting to know.

  • @eobet
    @eobet 10 днів тому +3

    Maybe this is a great talk, but it’s negated imo by the heavy use of AI.

  • @monamoralisch264
    @monamoralisch264 28 днів тому +2

    thx t! 4the greaaaaaA44444T Talk!!!
    Douglas Copland

  • @MrD_2112
    @MrD_2112 Місяць тому +2

    The most important youtube video since the beginning of youtube. Top tier lecture. I need more, this is addictive. :v

  • @LadySalemRaven
    @LadySalemRaven 2 дні тому

    Unironically the quote "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you're misinformed" is often misattributed to Mark Twain, but there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote it.

  • @bemodular9348
    @bemodular9348 25 днів тому +19

    Former NSA, West Point and cyber command? At this point convinced DEFCON is a CIA front

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle 25 днів тому +3

      Maybe not a "front" per se... but definitely a good place to reconnoiter the playing field.
      :P
      "In God we trust, for everyone else... we polygraph."
      --Old CIA moto

    • @Dewa-s3i
      @Dewa-s3i 10 днів тому +1

      Pretty sure defcon often includes high level officials. When you're playing the game at the highest level, that's who is in the game: nation states.
      What I personally failed to consider is that also cybergangs are rolling around at the top levels and are sometimes connected to the three letter agencies.

    • @trichomaxxx
      @trichomaxxx 10 днів тому +3

      honestly I was expecting bs but the talk was quite good and can also be used to spot the techniques used by the US nowadays. Chomsky would be glad

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle 9 днів тому

      @@Dewa-s3i One could argue that NSA's TAO Tailored Access Operations (now Computer Network Operations), is a "cybergang"... I wouldn't though, cause they could be hidin' out in the bushes somewhere, out to get me... :P, You know?
      TAO identifies, monitors, infiltrates, and gathers intelligence on computer systems being used by entities foreign to the United States.

    • @Ekam-Sat
      @Ekam-Sat 7 днів тому +1

      Same with Google and most of the content controllers.

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 28 днів тому

    There's always going to be a bias with any encapsulated information that gives a narrative. You can never know the complete whole truth but you can get a useful narrative.

  • @undercover513
    @undercover513 14 днів тому +1

    Excellent, thank you

  • @PhillyHardy
    @PhillyHardy 29 днів тому +5

    2:55 I never heard anyone think that we would change as a culture so rapidly and not just reinforce bad anti social culture being spread, but literal create the lowest firm of a culture probably ever

    • @changedahanddlessss
      @changedahanddlessss 11 днів тому +1

      According to whom, you need a reality shift bro. Remember we create our own reality. ❤

    • @PhillyHardy
      @PhillyHardy 10 днів тому +3

      @ agreed, but if u only focus on yourself then u are the lowest form of being ever, and we have more people than ever lost and isolated yet surrounded by people and information, and with more advanced medicine more unhealthy than ever, and better agriculture technology but we have an obesity epidemic simultaneously more starvation than ever, not to mention constant war and the stock market is higher than ever but more poor and less middle/class than in the previous80 yrs of American history, does that sound solid? We have the potential for a amazing positive shift but it won’t come from being blind to the problems or apathetic to fixing them

  • @StorylineandSociety
    @StorylineandSociety 19 днів тому +2

    DEFCON Rocks!

  • @JossinJax
    @JossinJax 10 днів тому +1

    @12:20 reminds me of the MO of the Djinn as it was portrayed in the 1997 film, Wishmaster.

  • @stephieubanks
    @stephieubanks 23 дні тому +1

    This was Awesome 👏
    Thank you 😊
    When is the next one ?
    I want to be there !

  • @1rudedudette1
    @1rudedudette1 28 днів тому +14

    As you get older, you gradually discover that most of what you have always thought was true is actually not.😄

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle 25 днів тому

      Like: "Truth is relative. (I have my truth, and you have YOUR truth.)"
      or
      "There are no absolutes." (Are you *absolutely* sure? What about Thus saith The Lord?)
      a classic: "There is no God. God cannot exist." (because he's a big meanie... etc...)

    • @yanajaartandanimalchannel4884
      @yanajaartandanimalchannel4884 13 днів тому +1

      Truth is not subjective, truth is absolute. Whether or not you agree with a statement, doesn’t make it not true. If you’re color blind and can’t see the color, doesn’t mean the color you can’t see is nonexistent. I think people have a problem relating fact to accepted consensus.

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle 12 днів тому

      @@yanajaartandanimalchannel4884 Colours, heat, light, electricity, radio signals, and even X-rays are all made of up of the same exact substance. They appear different, and have way different properties, uses, and purposes, yet mainly by reason only of the different frequencies by which they oscillate at. Fascinating stuff!
      For someone who is colour-blind, certain colours may as well be "non-existent" though. It's not easy to define or even describe the color red for example to a colour-blind man...
      I totally agree though brother, that truth is absolute. "Thus saith The Lord" sounds pretty absolute to me anyways.
      Consensus though... ouff... There's a bandwagon fallacy somewhere in there... (Argumentum ad populum, if I remember correctly, or appeal to the mass opinion of the people.) I'm not certain that I want to live in a world where every fact is decided by consensus. Who gets to decide who becomes part of the consensus board?
      Jesus Chris is the truth, the way and the life!
      "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast
      believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
      (John 20:29)

    • @johnpienta4200
      @johnpienta4200 8 днів тому +1

      I respect that view but, personally, I think you're confusing wisdom with age. Some people get older, and do not get wiser.

  • @TheNeurotichi
    @TheNeurotichi Місяць тому +22

    Consistency, inconsistency. Selective biases occurs when coined terminologies build patterns. Plagiarism is safe when theres never consequences. Impunity would be a reliable deception.

    • @TheNeurotichi
      @TheNeurotichi 26 днів тому +2

      Weed out the escape and excuse. For example Elon could be the "daddy wasn't home to imprese" complex. So that stimulation of meeting the expectations of the world at the expense of real ingenuity. The compromises people take separate them from the artists involved to see an outcome that meets the person that began it.

    • @feelinghealingfrequences7179
      @feelinghealingfrequences7179 4 дні тому

      remarkable comment
      and so well written

  • @ferencszabo3504
    @ferencszabo3504 28 днів тому

    Good talk! It's a borderline paranoia!

  • @JohnDoryPsh
    @JohnDoryPsh 9 днів тому +1

    LinkedIn is its own security breach. As demonstrated by DEFCON previously.

  • @deviantmultimedia9497
    @deviantmultimedia9497 28 днів тому +13

    I have a friend who's about my Dad's age ("Boomer" generation). He's reasonably smart in matters of tangible life but while on the internet he loses 100% of his critical thinking capacity. More like 200%. He goes into a critical thinking deficit. The following are my actual return-texts to him:
    "Elon Musk didn't say that. It's AI. Funny though."
    "You won't be getting that crossbow. Call card services ASAP."
    "The document claims to be a transcription of a PRIVATE conversation between the two. Who transcribed it then?"
    "Elon Musk didn't build a fighter jet. Google it."

    • @GuillotineBess
      @GuillotineBess 18 днів тому

      Bingo

    • @efdangotu
      @efdangotu 13 днів тому

      I find the anti Elon propaganda sticks across all generations. Sad.

    • @cryptid9674
      @cryptid9674 13 днів тому

      @@efdangotu probably because elon is actually an idiot lmaoo

    • @deviantmultimedia9497
      @deviantmultimedia9497 13 днів тому +3

      @@efdangotu Sad indeed. But I wouldn't consider this anti-Elon. More like "unrealistically Pro-Elon". Or at least "preying on those who are unrealistically pro-Elon"

    • @johnpienta4200
      @johnpienta4200 8 днів тому +1

      Elon had some great ideas and funded some incredible stuff, starting SpaceX and boosting Tesla. I was quite enamored, but at some point he jumped the shark.
      His claims in the last few years are not all BS though, for example he actually is a top 20 player in Diablo 4. Can't find any other examples tho. 😜

  • @CharlieSolis
    @CharlieSolis 3 дні тому

    I’m honestly a teensy bit insulted that I didn’t get asked to present at this conference… 😑
    I definitely learned a few things from these very knowledgeable experts who likely know of far more tactics than they even presented in this video but that being said I absolutely could have presented 75% of this presentation pretty much off the cuff no less.
    Like I would just need a brief “order of topics to discuss” list so I stay on track and explain everything in the right order of information because I can end up taking weird story loops if I fully riff 🤭 but yeah I could have given this presentation.
    Heck I could have presented the entire thing using their slides and would have had a bunch of extra personal anecdotes to give a more wholistic understanding of the direct applications of so many of these methodologies too.
    And I do not mean that as any sort of disrespect to the presenters or anyone/everyone who is in the intelligence industry.
    Because like who knew all those argumentative, oppositional and antisocial-media skills that I garnered during all my old “triggered keyboard warrior” factual science and info justice hunt compulsion “white hatting my life away” days on Facebook pre-pandemic would actually be valuable information people wanted to learn from 😅🤷‍♂️😂

  • @krustysurfer
    @krustysurfer 25 днів тому +1

    *"BY DECEPTION WE WAGE WAR"* ...
    A Golden Cage Is Still A Cage........
    Your building the very thing that you fear the most...............

  • @yibaibashimu6223
    @yibaibashimu6223 11 днів тому +2

    You guys just want us to THINK that's how deception works. Very sneaky. Very sneaky indeed.

  • @MrNobodyAttn
    @MrNobodyAttn 7 днів тому +2

    A lie for a lie. Not good. Maintain truth until other truths are revealed

  • @NONO-r2h
    @NONO-r2h Місяць тому +8

    HANDS-DOWN THE BEST DEF CON TALK , PERIOD. CHALLENGE ME IF YOU WISH BUT ITS FACT.

    • @daddy7860
      @daddy7860 Місяць тому

      You declare your own opinion as a fact. I see.

  • @rafenatho5406
    @rafenatho5406 5 днів тому

    Wow, the validation point hit the nail on the head

  • @devilish_details
    @devilish_details День тому

    So awesome that they have a con for shut in sociopaths

  • @Sakuodo
    @Sakuodo 24 дні тому

    Some very subtle work here System

  • @YeloPartyHat
    @YeloPartyHat 27 днів тому +3

    There is some good stuff in this talk... but also many traps presented as beneficial for the viewer. Is this intentional, or are they just eating their own garbage?

  • @Bl4nk0_
    @Bl4nk0_ 28 днів тому

    Man, that t-shirt looks like the cover of Pretty Hate Machine's NIN album.

  • @dclprogramming
    @dclprogramming Місяць тому +5

    I'd like to hear these 2 guys talk about the current state of politics.

    • @jnnx
      @jnnx Місяць тому +9

      They just did, but you need to decode it yourself.

    • @MrD_2112
      @MrD_2112 Місяць тому

      @@jnnx Excellent reply​.👍🏻

    • @tissuepaper9962
      @tissuepaper9962 29 днів тому +1

      politics is much, much more than the popularity contest in washington.

    • @kaarsty
      @kaarsty 27 днів тому +1

      You should check out a defcon conference then 😊 it’s not all geeks and code it’s just a bunch of counterculture types hanging out for a week discussing random stuff

    • @Nicholas-f5
      @Nicholas-f5 10 днів тому

      Trump is a train wreck

  • @jonnyfatboy7563
    @jonnyfatboy7563 Місяць тому +2

    I just came from Jack Rhysider channel I was thinking... Greg, your not from Florida are ya? 😅

    • @jchastain789
      @jchastain789 Місяць тому +1

      Jack's my favorite on yt. Maybe right beside Shawn ryan

    • @Nicholas-f5
      @Nicholas-f5 10 днів тому

      His not?

  • @MacGuffin1
    @MacGuffin1 Місяць тому +1

    Cant wait for the new season of foundation :D

  • @Gunni1972
    @Gunni1972 7 днів тому +1

    Was that an advertisement for censorship i just watched? Surely sounded like that after 36:48
    Make something part of the Internet, and you will have kids writing comments. That's just how it is. Now if they start to edit pages, will those Xanadu & Hyperscope backlinks make them Responsible humans? NO. Because they are kids, and don't yet care. It's the kids we have to teach about biases. Not sit infront of a screen.

  • @Tomahawk2387
    @Tomahawk2387 13 днів тому

    My favorite deception was 1812 Tecumseh Aug 16 1812 the capture of Detroit convinced the fort they were facing an army many times their size by parading warriors back and forth in a clearing of the forest. A white flag went up surrendering before the battle begins the most humiliating defeats ever suffered by an American Army today.

  • @MultiSuperUnicorn
    @MultiSuperUnicorn Місяць тому +10

    sick criminal records shirt

    • @lgroschiensalle
      @lgroschiensalle Місяць тому +2

      Yeah, I'm lookin' to get one too... Then hopefully, have it expunged.
      :P

    • @NamesGolden
      @NamesGolden Місяць тому +7

      Came here to say the same. Looks like the pretty hate machine shirt

  • @miraculixxs
    @miraculixxs Місяць тому +3

    "We were excited everybody would have access to knowlege, might uplevel society" - yeah, no 😂

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 29 днів тому +1

      It's what we thought in our naivete. With the best intentions we labored to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone. Labored to make a forum in which people across the world could speak to each other.

  • @yanajaartandanimalchannel4884
    @yanajaartandanimalchannel4884 13 днів тому

    Thank you

  • @JohnnyDanger36963
    @JohnnyDanger36963 8 днів тому +1

    "the internets not making us smarter?" isn't that your responsibility? the internets making me smarter.

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta 10 днів тому

    I dpend no time defending myself on the net. I defend my ideas and thought out conclusions.

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 28 днів тому +9

    "No bro, the purpose of computers is to push capitalism and make us money" --big tech VCs

  • @Bea-wb9uk
    @Bea-wb9uk 12 днів тому +1

    Righto and where have you been?

  • @danallen3031
    @danallen3031 26 днів тому

    The speaker's T shirt is deceptive it looks like a nine inch nails pretty hate machine shirt the colors and letter placement from a distance are almost spot on for one.

  • @Deeked
    @Deeked 26 днів тому +1

    Funny how we're talking about deception, and the media is used as an example more than once.

  • @Ekam-Sat
    @Ekam-Sat 7 днів тому

    It got a little bit dark to be honest… society. And yes. I understand all is one. Still. Something was lost.

  • @maxpowers9331
    @maxpowers9331 27 днів тому

    The jump to conclusions mat, should have been invented!

  • @alcanzando
    @alcanzando 21 день тому

    Well, what can I say? Internet and AI are helping me to become a true polymath

  • @UncyRandy
    @UncyRandy 26 днів тому +2

    So we looked at the data

  • @Mattjki
    @Mattjki 12 днів тому +2

    This is important. It's great that you are watching this. You make great decisions. You look incredible. All the negativity in your life is created by Kamala. She is terrible. Smart, beautiful people like you make great decisions like voting for trump. Keep struggling.

    • @johnpienta4200
      @johnpienta4200 8 днів тому

      Isn't it wild then that every clause depends on a victim identity and the central faction identity is that we Don't do identity politics?

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 28 днів тому

    I could see the tracking thing of who inputs information in various spots on the internet okay if it was quasi-anonymous, sort of like reddit usernames. Basically the internet itself would be an all encompassing "community". The identities would be useful within the context of the internet, but not being able to be anonymous on the internet would be a disaster (which honestly, I imagine all the tech companies, and the governments they comply with, could probably map out every single real life person's internet activity and identify them if they wanted, assuming they haven't already).
    E: Unless of course the person is okay with having their full identity associated with such tracking. It would be interesting to see an internet wide "rating" though lol. I've always thought about that when it comes to driving and people's license plate number; which some people obviously see as very invasive, but the information is out there.

  • @MattMcT
    @MattMcT Місяць тому +3

    This was flipping awesome. Love the wisdom and the energy of this one. And to my maker fam, don’t give up on the dubdub just yet! I’m working my ass off on some models to try and create a more healthy and private paradigm for retail. For video games as a test market, of course 😂. hoping we can start claiming our web back from being just a data cattle trap, but I figure I gotta help retailers to do that for themselves to take care of ourselves grrr. (Breath) so if anyone has any extra luck sitting around, feel free to hook me up! cheers 🍻

  • @JustinHoMi
    @JustinHoMi День тому

    Got a link to the references?

  • @M00N369
    @M00N369 22 дні тому

    Unconscious Bias along with Curse of Knowledge.

  • @joehopfield
    @joehopfield 2 дні тому

    Strongly implies that the US military+security apparatus was happy to hand the country to Putin-musk.

  • @PhillyHardy
    @PhillyHardy 28 днів тому +2

    26:37 make the eme'y comfortable in their static seemingly in control position, then manipulate resources both tech and human to relate your own narrative, they will eat it up if it reinforces their priorities! Overtime and their superior knowledge and position,( hint, they’re on the ropes and don’t see it)

  • @michaelkoester2333
    @michaelkoester2333 25 днів тому +2

    "Selection bias" sounds a lot like "confirmation bias"

    • @elvinaguero4651
      @elvinaguero4651 13 днів тому

      Having a bias is in of itself a deception. Lol
      Better of working together for a better world. Less BS and more kindness.

  • @Stevexnycautomotive
    @Stevexnycautomotive 15 днів тому +1

    The fact is, the world is my body, not round or flat. Without my world, nothing else matter. Avoid mythical creatures.

    • @elvinaguero4651
      @elvinaguero4651 13 днів тому

      The fact that my reality is created by my thoughts and decisions I made every day, the internet won't give me anything I don't need,therefore misinformation is allowed all over the internet.

  • @patrickbertlein4626
    @patrickbertlein4626 9 днів тому

    1:36 HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST JOKE EVER!!!!!