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Funny Tech Talks
There exist many lists with very informative talks about technology and computer science. This is not one of them. Instead, this list focuses on the funny side of technology - for when you just want to enjoy some proper banter. Talks where no language is listed are in English.
Computer Science
- What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer (Part 1 of 2) 2013
- What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer (Part 2 of 2) 2013
- Forensic Fails 2013
- How I Met Your Girlfriend 2013 <br>Hacking facebook in order to meet your girlfriend
- And Thats How I Lost My Eye 2013 <br>How to irreperably destroy your HardDrive so no data is retrievable
- Möchten Sie vielleicht Pommes zu den Pommes? 2014 (German)
- And That's How I Lost My Other Eye 2015 <br>The same goal as the other talk but with more explosives
- Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline 2015
- Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering 2015 <br>Making pictures with IDA control flow graphs
- 115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet 2015 <br> Part of the Defcon 23 Fail Panel
- Don't fuck it up 2015 <br>A talk about how to fail in OpSec
- Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast 2015 (German) <br>Imagine your scanner starts changing numbers and letters
- Lies, damned lies and scans <br>Same as above but in English
- Reverse Engineering von Spiegel-Online 2016 (German) <br>Analyzing hundreds of thousands of online news articles
- Every Clojure talk Ever 2018 <br>How Clojure saved {{company}} and transformed our {{noun}}!
- Du kannst alles hacken – du darfst dich nur nicht erwischen lassen 2018 (german) <br> A talk about OpSec and not fucking it up
- BahnMining 2019 (German) <br>Mining data from the German railway company Deutsche Bahn to expose their handling of delays
- Hacking the Media: Geflüchtete schmuggeln, Nazis torten, Pässe fälschen 2019 (German) <br> Why civil disobedience and subversion are more important than ever
Other
- That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars 2009
- Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! 2011
- The Art of Trolling 2012
- Die Kunst des Trollens 2015 (German)
Series
These talks have the same format and are (anually) recurring.
CCC Fnord-Jahresrückblick (German)
The past year in review
CCC Hacker Jeopardy (German)
Normal Jeopardy with the only difference that it's good
- 20C3 2003 <br>Very low quality video
- 21C3 2004
- 22C3 2005
- 23C3 2006
- 24C3 2007
- 25C3 2008
- 26C3 2009
- 27C3 2010
- 28C3 2011
- 29C3 2012
- 30C3 2013
- 32C3 2015
- 34C3 2017
- 36C3 2019
CCC Security Nightmares (German)
Talks about recent security issues and speculation about the future
- 19C3 2002
- 20C3 2003
- 22C3 2005
- 23C3 2006
- 24C4 2007
- 25C3 2008
- 26C3 2009
- 27C3 2010
- 28C3 2011
- 29C3 2012
- 30C3 2013
- 31C3 2014
- 32C3 2015
- 33C3 2016
- 34C3 2017
- 35C3 2018
- 36C3 2019
CCC Methodisch Inkorrekt (German)
Talks with funny but methodically incorrect science
Defcon Hacker Jeopardy
Normal Jeopardy with the only difference that it's good
- Defcon 20 2012
- Defcon 22 2014
- Defcon 32 Night 1 2024
- Defcon 32 Night 2 2024
Defcon Fail Panel
Defcon Whose Slide is it Anyway?
Also known as powerpoint karaoke
- Defcon SAFE MODE Part 1 of 2 2020
- Defcon SAFE MODE Part 2 of 2 2020
- Defcon 32 2024