Why I teach people how to hack | Ýmir Vigfússon | TEDxReykjavík

[@RustyBrakes]

Thank god there's people like this: skilled, passionate, extremely sophisticated stream of thought, but entirely morally grounded, and with a will to educate others too. What a guy.

[@ymirvigfusson]

+George Cochrane Thanks for the kind words!

[@SuperLC1010]

+George Cochrane He's probably dead now, US government probably captured, tortured and killed him.

[@andrisnrasmundsson3401]

+SuperLC1010 nope he is alive xD

[@ymirvigfusson]

***** Afraid I'm still around.

[@taxevader5206]

+Ymir Vigfusson Hæ

[@boiledelephant]

Hacking is the constant pressure that forces technology to improve.

[@geraldellis1177]

COULDNA a said it better

[@ymirvigfusson]

+boiledelephant Definitely.

[@geraldellis1177]

No

[@BasementEngineer]

+Arif Muhammad Security software development is a technical field, and technical knowledge *is* technology...

[@BasementEngineer]

***** Oh, for Christ's sake... Technical knowledge *IS* technology. That can include software development.

[@Missanybody]

My favorite talk on the TEDxReykjavík Conference this year! Great job Ýmir!

[@shenkeey]

Damn, his English is solid

[@IvanAmentisBratoev]

Icelandic is surprisingly similar to English. Surprisingly, that is if you do not realize, that, under all the Romance influence, English is a northern Germanic language.

[@mdwntramonkwa]

***** yeh....fucking education being all educational...

[@tom.in.barcelona]

***** So is the English of pretty much everyone in Northern Europe. It's a testament to the education system in all these countries (Holland, Scandinavia, etc)

[@shenkeey]

Tom Alexander I'm Dutch ;) I didn't mean that his vocabulary was awesome (which it was by the way), but his fluency and the fact that it sounds like he has mastered the language. Even in holland you won't see this too often; with most people you will hear a horrible accent or moments of hesitation

[@shenkeey]

***** De meeste Nederlanders hebben een verschrikkelijk Engels accent hoor ;)

[@mat2886]

I think these videos are going to change what I want to do in my life

[@mjx1482]

Mathieu Reich same

[@Mikel278]

Eshan is Fugglierestieres

[@JS-op5gk]

And did you yet?

[@mat2886]

J S I totally forgot I posted this, and yes, I’ve followed so much more on cyber security and technology and don’t regret it

[@pablitogavia562]

We love to hear it boss 💪🏼✌🏼

[@simplyme922]

A steel door reinforced with unobtainium.

[@LukasAndVera]

+Snail (snool) I'll use Kali as a battering ram.

[@AmazeWebs]

+simplyme922 you only have to throw a nokia at the door.

[@simplyme922]

.

[@rubrubrobtop6321]

wut

[@lilithgalac5102]

I remember once, I guessed the password for the display laptops at my local computer store. In less than five minutes, I had every single one open on a word document, that said "Get a better password". Five years later, and they use the same password on half of the display models. Also, this guy was fascinating to listen to... And he's inspired me to make a new character for my world, so, bravo.

[@dhruvpatel3323]

What's the name of the hacking competition? I wanna watch it

[@mikechristan6301]

Me too

[@Anonymous5882]

+Dhruv Patel it's called "big sausage in a hole mate, pepe in da feel ya mate late, for fuck sake hate fate, lol mol, pause fam, mah lad"

[@GiQQ]

Search 'TG15 hacking competition'

[@mikechristan6301]

Thank you

[@justinstock191]

Dhruv Patel

[@PRYVTgomerPYLE]

Whatever company that had the balls and brains to hire you guys deserves a "pat on the back!" If someone has shown an obvious flaw in your system, reported that issue without using said "bug/hack" in a menacing way... Then you need to respect that person's intelligence, then consider how much you could learn from them and possibly offer them an incentive to do so!!!

[@PRYVTgomerPYLE]

By the way he forgot one big organization that teaches tools that could harm you, THE MILITARY! :/

[@ucheemeji4037]

Pornorgraph

[@Pembroke898]

man, hacking is incredibly interesting and working to discover flaws in someone elses program sounds amazingly rewarding but im just not smart enough for that. people like him and especially students are badass.

[@derzandino]

All my childhood, I was wishing for somebody who had the same interest as me, but sadly, I always felt alone with what I like. Wouldve been really fun to have a bud or a teacher, who wanted to learn computer related stuff, like what the guy had when they hacked that server room when he was 15. Til now I still feel somewhat the same ... Really, if I become professional at what I'd be trying to achieve, I'll look for people who wants to learn it at a young age!

[@centralprocessingunit2564]

I feel the same. Maybe we should start our own group and let each other know what we can do.

[@centralprocessingunit2564]

+Lolopoldo Odlopolol

[@warriorking3435]

If YALL start a group can I join

[@beautruex7012]

I agree, may I join as well?

[@derzandino]

Think about it first, lets say we made a group,. then what? We're like lost foxes in the woods. We don't know each other either, meaning we do not know what everyone wants and we may not have the same goal. Some may want to go for InfoSec, some may just want to have fun programming. There may not be somebody who will ,kind of ,lead us. But I guess we can try if y'all really want it. An IRC group would work out fine, although I myself is new to IRC. I strongly suggest to find a group of people with the same mindset before we make this thing happen. (sorry for my bad english)

[@danram_]

I'm feeling inspired and I'm moving to Iceland. One of the greatest TED talks.

[@AM-zn7dk]

Big respect to him, I would love to have him as a mentor

[@VaidasKondratas]

I was shocked how easy it's actually to break into the house. Once I was getting a room for a lease but I didn't like it so I went to look around for other options and have had left my stuff in the house. When I returned having found better room I found out that the owner had left and I didn't have a key to get in. So I climb the fence from backside, put a credit card trough the gap of a window and unlock pins and just pushed the windows in and got inside, took my stuff, fix the window and left :D

[@tiborborza1891]

Vaidas Kondratas

[@sayannieishere8921]

X Y woah :o

[@sandeepkumaryadav8377]

we need more people like him in this world...really inspiring and aspiring man.

[@JohnSlegers]

Originally, hacking meant nothing but this : "Getting machines do so something else besides what they're designed to do"

[@BryanAllenSmith]

Brilliant Energy in this talk about #Hacking, Go Ýmir Go!

[@ganiakara4162]

This Ted talk really educated me, not just about hacking but education too

I find journalism, because everybody can be a journalist, potentially more dangerous than professional hacking. source: I studied media law.

[@robertraymond8933]

except hackers that get caught get ass raped in prison. i'd rather be shot at.lol

[@khlumalfih6768]

Rumpa Stiltskin lol

[@AtheistWren]

Robert Raymond What the fuck is wrong with you. Did you get IP banned from 8ch?

[@starsky1012]

And if you studied computer science, you would most likely think differently.

[@willy3506]

+Rumpa Stiltskin is it good to be raped?

[@iljiFPS]

This guy is so funny with his role play type parts. But honestly, he makes a really good point

[@GuniMatthiasson]

Great talk, great teacher.

[@johnmariano47]

Moral compass. Started with and ended with. Use hacking for the good only. Thanks for the great talk.

[@rahmatbaghdadi4100]

I love this speech. I'm a computer scientist and despite Computer Security being one of my top favorite fields, I didn't learn much on it. That being said I'm working on a project (maybe a series of documentaries) with this goal in my mind to wake people in my society about the importance of Cyber Security and I would love to hear any kind of advise from you guys. I have an argument about his reasoning at the end of speech about why it's ok for him to "arm people with cyber weapons"; he compares it to teaching marshal arts or chemistry and explains that he like those marshal masters and chemistry teachers is putting his faith into his students not to abuse the knowledge. Well, fair enough but the problem with this comparison is also the students might not abuse the knowledge because of morality but in marshal arts and chemistry science, there is this high chance of being caught if you do so while in cyber terrorism the chances are not that high. Am I missing something here? P.S. I'm not saying teaching hacking is wrong or right, I'm just trying to make a point about his defense on it.

[@tysej4]

I would say Rahmat that you're just as likely to get noticed within the cyberworld, the difference is simply that it's not as likely that the observer can do anything.

[@markosrnec5245]

Cyber terorist already know everything, you won't teach anyone something new so that they could abuse it, don't worry😅

[@kantnklaar]

wow he became emotional the last few seconds. Very nice presentation!

[@MrErheine]

Great presentation - I appreciate it - Thank you. I have a question for all of us. Today we have more operating systems, more security devices, complex security algoritms and also whole departments specialized in dealing with cybersecurity. Considering that as an heterogenous medium, hackers that convert themselves into cybersecurity experts loose some of the capacity in dealing with the heterogeneity, because when they choose a fixed salary, a.k.a job, they have to leave the digital jungle where they have to learn tons of different things every day and start to concentrate their work on a particular set of security media. A hacker before the job is free to learn and walk to wherever he likes. Otherwise he has a fixed timeframe, has to keep secrecy of their work, repect the company contracts, etc... This obviously weakens his master capability's. Or i'm wrong? What i meant is: You can't be a hacker in theory. You are a hacker only when you are hacking.

[@jonathanputra6873]

1:14 misleading subtitles english

[@judianx]

Noooooo KZbin auto captions are fixed now shittttt

[@Girlybird]

Curiosity (interest) a challenge and need and how to think, to create a tool out of anything to get what it is you need (spinning gold from dirt) the enterprise would be applying your discovery appropriately to commodity.

[@SteveLinthicum]

I will be giving a presentation next week to a local organization about the CyberPatriot program that provides students with the opportunity to participate in cyber defense competition. Watching the video provided me with a title, and information to include in the presentation. The title will be "Providing Direction for Students' Moral Compass."

[@ymirvigfusson]

+Steve Linthicum Wonderful to hear. I hope it went well.

[@madara3278]

That video was 16 Minutes. XD I was so absorbed in to listening that I haven't realised how the time went flying, even though I don't really listen to lecture expecially in english.

[@Pungba]

so true

[@pondieh3208]

Solange Brooks oh yea we are all geeks

[@dimitristzivas3868]

i broke into tears...what a speech

[@johndoe5442]

I hacked a tree once.

[@mat2886]

john doe I think we all have 😏

[@killerbeenl83]

No i haven't chopped a tree and i'm getting grey. Time to hack a tree instead of some code. Getting out of my basement, feeling like golem, no the light, goes back to his basement.

[@argenus]

+john doe , could you remote control it afterwards from your laptop?

[@BIGNELLTV]

Thanks for sharing this awesome, short, informative, video

[@brettefantomet]

In the 2016 Jason Bourne movie(watched it last night at the cinema) Hacking happened in iceland...

[@kimdrp]

I love the italian student accent! :)

[@minecralex4497]

I know a lot about the Linux terminal, Hard drive partitioning, configuration, building PCs, case modding, overclocking, PC cooling, graphics cards performance, sd cards, usb drives, floppy disks, SSDs, but one thing I completely can not do is programming/hacking. It is something that seems extremely difficult to learn, and although I already have a lot of background knowledge on computers, I can't seem to learn programming and it seems so difficult, but I want to learn it so badly, because I could do so many awesome and great things by writing my own code and programs. I haven't really tried learning it much though, but it seems so difficult I tried to take online courses and read some books, but its so hard to write your own code, all i can do is just copy from the book.

[@Bluetimesz]

So awesome, I am finishing up my Computer Science degree, and would love get into hacking and security.

[@TesserLink]

i love being the same way. finding bugs and then reporting them. other wise if i did use them to my advantage i would always feel like it would bit me in the butt later on in the future.

[@soulgrim5445]

I no lie involuntarily clapped after watching this.

[@lambertbrother1628]

Why are the only subtitles on this the automatic subtitles? I expected proper subtitles from TED.

[@frostbite967]

Wish he was my teacher...

[@Mohammed.1471]

Me too...

[@archonjubael]

Where can I find this competition video?

[@SpeedingEngineered]

*****

[@movement2contact]

the speeder k. Thanks for the link.

[@archonjubael]

No... But I'm always on the lookout for good material.

[@woutvandessel1823]

Knowledge is dangerous, yet necessary. The problem many people that have uncovered how to hack face is that if they teach someone else how to do it and build up their hacker mindset, they are essentially giving those people an invisible machinegun that could be used to rob a bank at any time with almost no trace of who did it. That's a scary thought to have when you uncover something that could be used in a very illegal and dangerous way, up to the point where that knowledge becomes widely recognized as forbidden. While it shouldn't be: a hacker doesn't have to hack into someone's computer to use their knowledge and that unique hacker mindset. They could go over to the other side of the virtual war, like this good man has done, and work cyber security. These people will be the most succesful cyber security guys out there: they don't need to think outside the box, they simply have to think of what they would do if they were in the same situation. That makes it a lot easier to uncover a potential security problem, thus enabling the company to fix whatever security issues they may have. Also, no company is without those small cracks in their security. Hackers are well aware of this and they can hack anything at any time. Don't feel like your company is safe just because you've invested in cyber security before. No security is perfect and it's always a work in progress. You may, as this Ymir noted, have closed the door and reinforced it, but there's always a tiny little window left open by accident and that's something you should watch out for. The people at the internet banking company he was talking about were clearly not hackers. They didn't think outside of the box, leaving a very important couple of lines of code out and thus making their clients extremely vulnerable. Seriously, not making the system check whether or not the number is actually positive is the biggest mistake possible when it comes to this. That man should be fired!

[@zimrileisher]

Just what happened to me. I managed to take control of the computers in our school and find everybody's grades, and then apparently I went a bit too far and did something horrible someones computer. Well, eventually, they found me and I had a talk with the IT guy. He was awesome, he was all like "I already know what you did, yeah, that's cool!" and at the end he promised help getting a CEH degree!!! It was the happiest (or luckiest) day of my life. The way I hack, it's kinda like how he described it. I try a bulk attempt. This with this and that with that. See what works. What happens. Go from there, because you can always keep on making combinations of things. (Make sure to Google it all) Ask me if you want sum help.

[@alexanderreid7981]

i am trying to learn java right now but i am only thirteen with nobody that i know that actually could help me any help would be appreciated because as i said i have not even memorized all the code yet let alone started thinking about using it

[@zimrileisher]

alex reid I'm fourteen, don't bother learning Java if you want to do something like that :P Honestly, all it takes is patience (for trying every single method and every single combination of methods) and a little knowledge of what you think is right. It's just like: "Oh, hey, this looks important. I wonder what happens if I delete/rename it."

[@jezaraknid314]

alex reid www.hackthissite.org/ www.khanacademy.org/ www.w3schools.com/html/

[@declancopland9094]

Any idea how to install a keylogger on a teachers computer

[@zimrileisher]

Declan Copland There are some flashdrives that you can buy XD I tried it once, it actually works. Another way you can get a password is if, on a Mac, you press tab while they are just about to type in their password, pressing tab switches you over to the user box, so when they type, as long as they are looking at the keyboard, you should be able to get their password successfully.

[@bernardobello6473]

Im almost finishing my career as a Systems Engineer, and i would really like to start learning about cybersecurity and hacking, so what would you recommend me? Where to start? How to practice? Anything would be really helpful

[@kateastrophicx9630]

Unfortunately there have been recent events where white hats have been arrested and prosecuted for disclosing vulnerabilities. But very cool talk.

[@Cinematif]

You have inspired me 😊. Thank you.

[@markthomas5360]

how does one mirror an account?

[@Olkpthe]

I got in trouble in 6th grade for "hacking the school website" smh

[@Raul1995]

how did you do that..

[@abbudi222]

mel roy the website had no security Xp

[@marcperez2598]

I made the school announcements say suck a dick as my senior prank. also we hung a giant inflatable phallus from all the bank accounts

[@marcperez2598]

Nice

[@stonecarrier2688]

I formed a group to work on a railgun in highschool

[@Mohammed.1471]

I want this person to teach me tooooo......I'm seriously serious.......🥺🥺

[@gharleyblownash8566]

Is he have a KZbin channel ? I'd like to learn more from him, he's amazing

[@dineshmaheshsofttek]

How can i become one of your student..?

[@barkeeper7887]

"I grew up as a hacker" **Waits for laughters** **continues**

[@shiridharan]

I hope hackers will hack all the corrupted politicians and political party account and worth and reveal to world before transfering all their money to all the charity in world .

[@ምክንያታዊውመናፍቅ]

modern day 'robinhoods' lol

[@nikolatesla1296]

+G Shiridharan I feel the same. I'm surprised something hasn't happened yet. I mean hackers are intelligent people, why not if they are positive they can't be caught??

[@LordOfLemon]

+G Shiridharan In order to break into systems like that, you would probably have to spend a lot of your life learning how to break into systems. If you have spent so long learning and studying, you realize that there is much more options that are more beneficial for you and the people around you than to simply be a modern day "robin hood" and throw your life away by opposing the government in order to give some money to some charities that probably won't make a difference anyways and that will most likely be forced into return of the funds.

[@nikolatesla1296]

Waldemar Malinowicz Don't know what?

[@S9V9G3]

Anonymous is the CIA :v

[@YouTuber-dl1fz]

Does the negative actual work

[@baguette7851]

Tait Johnson No.

[@garyjohnson9037]

very nice, how do hacker protect themselves from being hacked ?

[@cia9222]

You're all on the list.

[@voteforme1266]

I really haven't been a hacker but I am always interested in finding out how to get behind the world and fix it

[@bradenluff-cooke9354]

Where do you even learn to hack? is there a website like udemy, treehouse or codecademy? I think I'd like this.

[@bradenluff-cooke9354]

***** any recommendation's?

[@ilovemysherypie01]

+Braden Luff-Cooke yeah i've always wondered like where do you even start

[@cawbplays]

TEACH ME HOW TO HACK / CODE / PROGRAM!

[@stefancroes]

go to university

[@noizzeeboy3449]

CAWBPlays AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAH

[@frostiedk1]

CAWBPlays

[@crimsonmoon9404]

dont even need to.

[@ibrogamingman8591]

CAWBPlays read programing books, learn to build exploits and know how to use them

[@yaisian7384]

his english is on point. i love his accent

[@indiansoftwareengineer4899]

do you have video tutorials ? if yes then please send a link

[@qwerty82822]

Guys, watch this with the subs on. It's pure gold XD

[@thegreyworldwalker8882]

I don't get it..

[@BobCat981]

is unobtanium easy to obtain? i wanna reinforce my doors....

[@Dstrukt2k2]

But isn't teaching large, multi-national industrial companies (that rape the planet) how to defend themselves against cyber-attacks, in itself un-ethical?

[@bradsmithy4380]

Anyone hear about Project Ares? They just had a competition in Vegas, like he describes.

[@spartanAXA]

Whenever he pretends to be someone else, he turns into Mario!

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

Lol

[@utkristapaudel1133]

It's a me mario

[@AlexPavelka]

How do people get into hacking? I'd love to know!

[@elcucumber2847]

It may sound ironic, but God bless our hackers!

[@AdesignerIn]

It was very intresting and educational

[@AJAnewage]

where do you even begin to learn hacking?

[@emirwayfarer7074]

Is there a school/program/Institute that teaches this knowledge??

[@michealagriffin]

I want to learn to hack.

[@H33t3Speaks]

Learn to program.

[@michealagriffin]

I've taken programming class but I need little more instruction to better understand.

[@H33t3Speaks]

What language(s)? The more the better, the most important language to understand is assembly imho.

[@phoebemclastname4578]

First: I am not an expert on information security. I'm an amateur cryptographer which a bit of a side interest in infosec. But having been learning stuff as a hobbyist for years... Learn the architecture of the stuff you're interested in. Figure out where the working parts are and read security advisories to learn about common breaks. You want to target applications? Learn about common memory bugs and leveraging them. You want to target code that uses self-modification to obscure its features? Learn reverse engineering (including how to read machine instructions on your target architecture, whether that's intel, ARM, etc, etc. You're curious about web application security? Learn about network architecture, network protocols, databases, common implementation security problems. You want to target the OS? Learn about how your operating system works, what sorts of security features it implements, and so on. Android? read widely about the DVM, bytecode, and the booming mobile malware industry. More than any particular programming language or technique -- and I think this is probably pretty clear from the example given in the video above of a house with an expensive lock and the windows open -- computer security is about understanding the various levels of architecture (ie: how things are put together) people actively develop attacks from as raw a level as sniffing RF radiation given off by components up to forcing faulty random number generation to break cryptography, to using different error messages as an oracle to reveal part of a user's secret information to using inadequate input checking in applications to hijack the process altogether). TBH, there's far too much of all of that potentially to learn, even if you were doing it as a full time job. So pick a piece of computer technology you're interested in and start poking at it to see how and when it fails and what you might be able to do to make use of that.

[@Blacklust407]

Phoebe Queen thank you, im takeing your advice now

[@Puddycat00]

I’d love love to write code and hack but I’m just not patient enough or smart enough to learn. I have the passion and curiosity but not the brains. It’s VERY frustrating

[@calzeye-59]

Where can I find these live hacking videos.

[@calzeye-59]

Tah :D

[@Typhonx25]

Where do you learn how to do this?

[@pixelpusher3589]

We as humans seem to gravitate towards the weapon of choice, but not the 'moral' choice to use it, the real issue.

[@grummus]

I got in trouble in 5th grade for coding in HTML on a school computer, the moment I said it was a website they thought I was changing the school website and I got sent home! smh

[@ChillerDragon]

Those hacking competitions sound fun where can I watch them o.O ?

[@lewisgavin2917]

How do you hack a server? like where would you start?

[@LisaWilson]

I have locks on my door, and feel very unsafe because I have stockers, do they see me and my computer...

[@nasiryahaya4184]

does anyone know if he has somesort of tutorial we can checkout

[@somedayzitzdark7987]

willing to post or provide network information

[@toadonwheels]

I just listened to this while the Borderlands 2 main menu music played in the background, and it was really good lol

[@jimmyward7269]

great stuff,wish I could do or learn

[@mrincrdible7248]

does he have a course on udemy ?

[@Joshverd]

Anyone else get here in my garage?

[@273]

#no scam

[@jadeng9776]

Joshverd Me!!!!

[@THEMRGAMER98075]

Where would you even start to hack

[@alexaps5951]

And how can I start learning hacking?

[@psikhicheskiyirodov9975]

***** THe Professor's site says he has now moved to Emory University. Might wanna update 'cause I was looking forward to study under this guy, but now *sigh*

[@griffith2644]

Where is Emory University?

[@psikhicheskiyirodov9975]

lmgtfy.com/?q=emory+university&l=1

[@ArnarIngason]

There are a lot of other good teachers in Computer Science at Reykjavik University. But Ýmir is fun because he is so enthusiastic about what he's teaching.

[@Willem500]

I'm in Reykjavik! :)

[@Dabios]

Awesome lecture Ýmir!

[@ymirvigfusson]

+SleepyGaming Thanks!

[@theprodigalson4003]

I wish I was part of your group I really do. I want to understand how things work. When I see something I wonder what it's designed to do then I wonder what I can make it do and what the limits of soemtning is. But I would abuse what I'd find. Somewhere along the line I changed. It's a shame, would love o meet somebody like you in real life because I would get a kick out of things like this

[@yellowstone4087]

I am 35 years old..from India Can I start learning. Hacking and cyber security now !! Unfortunately I didn't took this seriously before and also didn't have opportunity because of family problems ... Plz suggest

[@tesilia2394]

I want him as a prof at my university!

[@danm5224]

Extremely interesting very smart guy

[@4ci1ab]

or is it gray

[@shahroztariq7446]

helo sir I want to be a cyber expert iam 19 years old in pakistan can u plz tell us how to apply Visa for this university in iceland

[@FLlTTER]

His English vocabulary is soooo good, it's kind of amazing. He has a kinda obvious accent though.

[@ymirvigfusson]

+Dendy Appreciate the sentiment! And yes, I clearly have an accent :-)

[@kylelunarioum4197]

Where can I learn!

[@Winticket7]

Fuck.I wish there was someone like you in my country.