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Security researcher and computer hacker Samy Kamkar is asked to explain the concept of computer hacking to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. Samy Kamkar is a multidisciplinary engineer, security researcher, and cofounder of Openpath Security. He was raided by the US Secret Service and…

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Security researcher and computer hacker Samy Kamkar is asked to explain the concept of computer hacking to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.

Samy Kamkar is a multidisciplinary engineer, security researcher, and cofounder of Openpath Security. He was raided by the US Secret Service and banned from computers for several years for computer hacking and now focuses on releasing open source security research and exploitation tools.

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301 Comments

  1. Horus

    July 20, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    It’s been a while since last video on Samy’s own channel 🙁 …

  2. Vishaal Chandrasekar

    July 20, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Nice video, learnt a lot with this

  3. Jeremiah M

    July 20, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Something funny.

  4. Nokia 3310

    July 20, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    why is there a oscilator in the background

  5. Alberto Crescini

    July 20, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    How do you even define yourself a Computer Science student if you don’t know what an Overflow is? That’s awkward.

    • ClassicDominique

      July 20, 2020 at 9:57 pm

      It’s almost as if he’s in school to learn…

  6. Michael Griffiths

    July 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    I think the PhD student was the real boss

  7. Rico Diaz

    July 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Breaking is easier than building

  8. Vishnu Ch

    July 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    Dude imma be straightforward with you now
    If you don’t wear a black hoodie you’re not a hacker

  9. Vishnu Ch

    July 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    A better title would be *a man who can get inside anything talks about penetration and protection*

  10. Chris Lawrence

    July 20, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    Every time I think of hacking, I think of Code Lyoko. 😭😭😭

  11. poplar

    July 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    *I’M IN*

  12. MarkTheGamer

    July 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    The first kid was surprisingly aware of what hacking is. When I was 9 my parents thought I was autistic. But that doesn’t really compare because they are still not sure.

  13. bigfil1981

    July 20, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    Super interesting.

  14. carl weiss

    July 20, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    thank you so much for this video, love how you explained this topic, please more

  15. B A

    July 20, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    LOL Took that little girl .02 seconds to figure out that he was a “bad hacker” before he became a “good one”.

  16. J Morgan

    July 20, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    “ 2:44 “
    – Joe Rogan

  17. p m

    July 20, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    daaang, 9 year olds are so smart nowadays. Asking really pertinent questions. The word “account” wasn’t even in the common vernacular when I was a kid.

  18. Juan Ignacio Gregoratti

    July 20, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    I want a scientist to explain entropy in 5 levels.

  19. Nikhil Desai

    July 20, 2020 at 11:35 pm

    After listening to the two experts, I feel like I live under a rock or they are speaking a completely different language! High energy particles to hack???? What’s going on?

  20. FaceInCake

    July 20, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    ooooh, I actually understood this expert level.
    Lovely talk, that kid is crazy smart as well.

  21. GhOsT ID

    July 20, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    LOL I was so happy that he mentioned the Light Commands research. Especially given how it could be paired with a laser microphone for instance to grab any input required to fully optimize the voice inputs.

  22. Alien Cat

    July 20, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    It’s really interesting how systems can be manipulated like your example of moving the whole pinball machine instead of working the buttons. Why would a hacker play by the rules when there’s an easier way?
    It makes me think of how I might not understand someone else’s actions if I don’t know their true goal.

  23. Darnell Shaw

    July 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    Yh had no idea what they were taking about, but still made it to the end somehow ??!?

  24. LecherousCthulhu

    July 21, 2020 at 12:18 am

    Time to use a raspberry pi to determine if you can do full coding with high energy injection.

  25. Hassan Tahan

    July 21, 2020 at 12:54 am

    Yea let me just have a random oscilloscope in the background. That’ll make the vibe more hacker-y

  26. EUROPE BASED VLOGS

    July 21, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Hacker explaining summary

    def Hacking – using a machine in a non-intended way

    *Child*
    Hacking is a way to learn how ‘malicious’ hackers are hacking and stealing money (hackers update protection ‘new code’ + do bug fixes)
    Change a way a system works not manipulate
    Can start hacking at age of 9-10

    *Teenager*
    code.org – building/rewire a game
    Hacking is similar to code- rewiring and controlling inputs (even temperature) 4:35 to control outputs (better memory if cold) of the computer
    Time to hack – seconds to years

    *Cyber Security student*
    Information and Network Security
    sometimes sales accounts/credit cards hacked , Hackers look at weak links
    Networks brokene e..g. WiFi via Bluetooth
    8:05 Attacks Buffer Overflows – memory allocation limited (8:45 Segmentation Fault) … payload executed
    solution – Penetration test at deli scale ‘deep vulnerability’ – 6:30
    9:45 Solution to BUffer Overflows – protection mechanisms in software e.g. smaller computers etc
    CS and security/Encryption (Interdisciplinary) – China and Iran (censorship unlike US ) – Ethics (protecting/breaking software, limitations of software/tecchnology, hiding new info for advantage)

    *Grad student*

  27. KimaShin

    July 21, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Q U A N T U M M E C H A N I C S

  28. Soul r3aper

    July 21, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    yeah finally.

  29. Gunnerblaster

    July 21, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    That 9 year old is smarter and more inquisitive than most adults, that I know…

  30. Shniit Schneyder

    July 21, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    this was freaking awesome. thanks!

  31. mauricerizat

    July 21, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    I just came here to see if I understood the expert level explanation. Need to justify my CS degree.

  32. BATeller

    July 21, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    Good video

  33. STOAM

    July 21, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    I don’t understand how he somehow discussed hacking and didn’t discus manipulation of people in a system to give you access to the system, which is the most common weakness in a system.

  34. Paula Espinales

    July 21, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    I have never been this early and there are not 1k+ likes on comments… I have got the price, but at what cost

  35. Shane Swimley

    July 21, 2020 at 5:52 pm

    you sit on it, but you can’t take it with you.

  36. ataraxia

    July 21, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    In the next viedo this dude will be explaining in 5 levels of finesse how Jim Browning hacks a “windows call center”.

  37. xWaazes

    July 21, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    does it make me a nerd or a wizard if I know what they are talking about on level 5?

  38. CyberCheese

    July 21, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    Really lame that the last guy was a friend of the expert. No potential challenge and not genuine.

  39. Bruce S.

    July 21, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    It’s interesting to watch tech professionals talk about hacks. They’re open and eager to talk about concepts published by others, but they slow down and smirk when they brush near things they recently discovered.

  40. poopoogamer123

    July 21, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    That teen is def gonna become a hacker, asking questions like “how long does it take to get in”

  41. Shashank A J

    July 21, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    It’s as if that little girl is explaining him on how to explain it back to her LMAO…

  42. poopoogamer123

    July 21, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    Ofc the Indian college student is learning how to hack

  43. Danny Devito

    July 21, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    This is great – more people need to see this

  44. Sumedh Garimella

    July 21, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    The C/C++ stuff at level 3 gave me some second-year CS course flashbacks haha (especially seg faults)

  45. Greg Keane

    July 21, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    wow that cold boot is amazing, I have heard about it but thought it was a myth

  46. Arty Eet

    July 21, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Oh boy, looking at the positioning of those poor Rokits physically makes me feel pain… That’s now how you install studio monitor speakers. They need to be at ear level, not above your head – unless you have bunny ears or something.

  47. Adam Mason

    July 21, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    Got the smartest 5 year old ever!

  48. Sumedh Garimella

    July 21, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Yo my bro Karan’s going Hackerman on em

  49. Jeff Morrison

    July 21, 2020 at 11:46 pm

    Sammyyyy!!!!!!!

  50. Matt Davis

    July 22, 2020 at 12:45 am

    He’s so good at talking to kids, I hope we get more people like this in education

  51. Bertevrate

    July 22, 2020 at 2:24 am

    So… he lost me after the college student lol, but I got a Cyber Systems Operations job in the Air Force so hopefully a few months later I can come back to this video and understand some of the concepts explained in this video a lot better.

  52. Eduardo Tachotte

    July 22, 2020 at 2:31 am

    But most of all, Samy is my hero

  53. Alias Marg8ta

    July 22, 2020 at 3:34 am

    9:30 is terrifying to me

  54. Matthew Lemon

    July 22, 2020 at 6:28 am

    I’m not a computer expert by any means, but it seems that the more “locks” a network has…..the more points of vulnerability it has.

    • Dylan

      July 22, 2020 at 7:10 am

      That doesnt make sense

  55. Subscribe n say school sucks

    July 22, 2020 at 7:05 am

    So did u hack online games

  56. Alex Gonzalez

    July 22, 2020 at 7:14 am

    I like how he has a oscilloscope turned on in the background just to flex.

  57. Microwave Burrito

    July 22, 2020 at 8:31 am

    These videos are great!

  58. Unknownsadman

    July 22, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    But why is there an Osciloscope in the background?

    • John Uferbach

      July 22, 2020 at 10:59 pm

      because he also has an smd microscope^^

  59. Kyle L

    July 22, 2020 at 1:36 pm

    Please explain 2 persons 1 keyboard.

  60. Karan Nagwekar

    July 22, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    The 9 year old understood hacking better than my parents understand hacking.

  61. Chris Wesley

    July 22, 2020 at 1:47 pm

    Yeah, he’s tidied up his own inconvenient history somewhat.

  62. Rick and Morty Incestuous Edits

    July 22, 2020 at 3:32 pm

    This is one good-looking man.

  63. Ricegum’s Disstrack

    July 22, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    Did he explain why the cod servers are crap?

  64. Emilija Kastratovic

    July 22, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    0:19 code for matrix multiplication isn’t hacking

  65. Nuke Official

    July 22, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    As someone studying Cybersecurity atm, especially the discussions with the Grad Student and Expert were really interesting like some really cool ideas and concepts. Thanks Wired!

  66. ジョージ様

    July 22, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Subtle flex with all of his tech in frame.

  67. Cashew Skyline

    July 22, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    That’s no hacker. Where’s the darkness, hunched back, hood and the cliche matrix code on a screen?

  68. Prabhnoor Bandesha

    July 22, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Who can explain me about side channel attack?!

  69. SAVIO DAVID

    July 22, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    I feel like this guy knows nothing but knows everything to make conversation

  70. flashblack

    July 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Whoever brought up that girl should be very proud, she was asking all the right questions even before I thought of them..!

  71. Spencer Bench

    July 22, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    This guy created the fastest spreading virus of all time – a worm that infected people’s MySpace profiles, sending him a friend request and displaying “but most of all, Samy is my hero”

  72. cauldron

    July 23, 2020 at 12:17 am

    i love wired

  73. Tweak Freq

    July 23, 2020 at 1:09 am

    Thanks Phillip Defranco. This was interesting.

  74. Monk Gyatso

    July 23, 2020 at 4:38 am

    if hes a true hacker, he wouldnt show his face

  75. Tyler Heffernan

    July 23, 2020 at 5:17 am

    He basicly was moding video games before it was cool

  76. Andrew_Stark

    July 23, 2020 at 6:16 am

    I love that he just has a random sine wave on his oscilloscope lol

  77. Aaron Roberts

    July 23, 2020 at 9:14 am

    Wooow this guy is so incredibly cool

  78. Ramanuja Rao

    July 23, 2020 at 9:34 am

    The child is more insightful than me.

  79. PsaychHoOO

    July 23, 2020 at 9:42 am

    Level 6 is hacking robux

  80. Karen Hsu

    July 23, 2020 at 9:47 am

    Ok but can he say “r u lost baby girl”

  81. Dell Santiago

    July 23, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Kid is smart

  82. Sage OM

    July 23, 2020 at 11:11 am

    That face tho 18:30

  83. Pranav Bankoti

    July 23, 2020 at 11:45 am

    Samy Kamkar 🙏

  84. truedoom

    July 23, 2020 at 11:52 am

    God some of these kids just don’t appreciate who they are talking to. I would love to have a coffee or a beer with Samy.

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      July 23, 2020 at 2:39 pm

      Lol didn’t know who he was didn’t realize he had so many major accomplishments

  85. Dean

    July 23, 2020 at 12:25 pm

    mark normand if he studied computer science

  86. Yusril Atfan

    July 23, 2020 at 1:20 pm


    feel free to add i-

  87. Maximilian B

    July 23, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    The guy modded a game and she called him out on it. Protect Her!

  88. Vinay Neil Panda

    July 23, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    why does he have an oscilloscope in the background – he is a computer science guy?

  89. vitusverden

    July 23, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    Where do you sign up for these?

  90. Bogdan Bogdan

    July 23, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    You forgot to include Karens.

  91. Watema 3

    July 23, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    So this is the guy behind the TF2 Bots.

  92. Ryan Frenzel

    July 23, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Thanks to ncis I know that if two people type on the same keyboard at the same time your hacking skills are doubled. That is the extent of my hacking knowledge.

  93. harvey sarai

    July 23, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    I hate these videos just because of how quickly I loose the explanation

  94. Marc Binder

    July 23, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    Is there an x-class drone in the background?

  95. SumTingWong

    July 23, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Bruh this guy is a fake, he doesn’t have a black hoodie in a dark room with green text.

  96. Jakelyne Finan

    July 23, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    so maybe im a big nerd but can we talk about how smashing Sam is

  97. Nishita Bhowmik

    July 23, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    How are the youngest ones in these videos so smart? They seem much more intelligent than most kids their age

  98. Syed Omair

    July 23, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    John Abraham but as a Security Expert

  99. sundhaug92

    July 24, 2020 at 10:23 am

    But most of all, Samy is my hero

  100. Trash

    July 24, 2020 at 10:34 am

    I watched mr robot so I’m basically an expert right?

  101. Alexis Mandelias

    July 24, 2020 at 11:52 am

    The kid one was terribly scripted and editted

  102. no scripts

    July 24, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Game.earn(999999999999999999)

    If you know, you know

  103. no scripts

    July 24, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Game.earn(999999999999999)

    If you know you know

  104. Ai VANGUARD

    July 24, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Hacking is the way humans look at problems it’s like when a boy Scout uses an improvised device like a stick when his friend get hurt and. Breaks his leg but does t have the normal brace the friend needs the improvision is a hack.

  105. Ai VANGUARD

    July 24, 2020 at 12:16 pm

    I left Myspace but my Stargate444 never left~1337

  106. Shelesh Rauthan

    July 24, 2020 at 12:16 pm

    Hey, where can i get all those research you talked about in the show ???

  107. B R

    July 24, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    cool.. didn’t reeky learn anything

  108. Swans Listener

    July 24, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    my question is, why was the deli scale connected to the internet?

  109. Jae K.

    July 24, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    Samy is my hero!!!

  110. SpacedogDDD

    July 24, 2020 at 3:18 pm

    Hes not as cool as hackerman

  111. Haziq Malik

    July 24, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    I thought to be a hacker all you have to do is know two words
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    “I’m in”

  112. Haziq Malik

    July 24, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    I thought to be a hacker all you have to do is know two words
    .
    .
    .
    .
    “I’m in”

  113. Himalaya Agarwal

    July 24, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    Joe Jonas is a hacker?

  114. MrC0MPUT3R

    July 24, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    _Slaps Roof of Refrigerator_

    *This baby can hold so many segment faults*

  115. kr4zyy

    July 24, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    I’m enrolled in a Cyber security and Digital Forensics course and the closest thing to “hackin” I’ve learnt is Web Application Security 🥴
    SQLInjections, XSS, etc

  116. Jack Grey

    July 24, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    The kid should be the top level when it comes to hacking

  117. Grandma’s Knees

    July 24, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    This guy’s fake, he looks normal.

  118. Michal Lindberg

    July 24, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Those are NICE speaker you got in the background there! Are they Bluetooth?

  119. Dantain Films

    July 24, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    I didn’t know you could connect a meat scale to the internet.

  120. Ashok Tak

    July 25, 2020 at 12:30 am

    In the end, I realized talks of Samy — kid and Samy — expert is quite general. I wonder how talk evolved to peak and became generalist.

  121. theghostmachine

    July 25, 2020 at 12:37 am

    For a second I was thinking they started at level Expert.

  122. moopster 420

    July 25, 2020 at 12:50 am

    Yo when he started hacking it was actually just doom mods

  123. 228anonymous

    July 25, 2020 at 1:11 am

    Lesson learned, never trust deli scales

  124. Ajay Singh

    July 25, 2020 at 7:09 am

    I never knew John Abraham was a Hacker.

  125. Kamodomon

    July 25, 2020 at 7:34 am

    Little girl with some good questions.

  126. OBITORASU オビト

    July 25, 2020 at 8:48 am

    I was waiting for this.

  127. Dillon Hudson

    July 25, 2020 at 9:12 am

    teen needs to fix her wall lol

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      July 25, 2020 at 4:45 pm

      I’ll do that🤣🤣🤣

  128. Bob-Manuel

    July 25, 2020 at 9:17 am

    8:23
    people whose names are longer than a hundred bytes: Why are we here? just to suffer?

  129. devanshi

    July 25, 2020 at 10:18 am

    fake. he doesn’t have red hair and yellow glasses. not a hacker

  130. lol haha

    July 25, 2020 at 10:29 am

    i still constantly see unsecured wireless printers connected to business networks when I am going around town. Most people use wifi and will see your unsecured printer lol….

  131. The Cpjad

    July 25, 2020 at 11:21 am

    why don’t they bring in a super-smart teen so i can relate 😂😂

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      July 25, 2020 at 4:51 pm

      ;-;

  132. Corey Burton

    July 25, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    Wooohooooo Halifax!

  133. AlumniArmy

    July 25, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    I’m actually a level 3 .. it was so interesting to learn more, which this video could go on longer.

  134. Depressed Stork

    July 25, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    Sammy is my hero.

  135. OPCDE with Matt Suiche

    July 25, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    Want to learn about hacking? Check out our channel.

  136. Mr. Tea-yagi

    July 25, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    is “meatscale” i synonym for something or do they talk about a actual meatscale? xD just wondering how and why a meatscale would be connected to a network…..

  137. JB ‘Defalt’ Markowicz

    July 25, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    That 9 year old kid might become a DedSec member later in life, I gotta keep an eye on her.

  138. DeVantier

    July 25, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    When your pronounce lock as log

    True professional

  139. Mirek Heikkila

    July 25, 2020 at 5:21 pm

    hrmmm i’ll call this video out and just say WEAK SAUCE!!! do people actually ‘study’ in school on how to hack? uhh NO, and NO(in special/funded groups yes but no comment)… they can be IT sec experts/admins, but to be proficient you need to think for yourself…. well this video is ‘garbage’ to people in the know… for your other 99.9% of your audience sure its ‘good’… and makes people feel good cause of uh dealing with the front end and calling it a hack.. true it is a hack, but. ahh sht i better shutup…

  140. Amirali Nikakhtar

    July 25, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    Is samy originally iranian?

  141. Da Penguin

    July 25, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    Sorry but can I call out the woman in the begining using a soldering iron and a pair of metal tweezers at the same time. Dont do this, I have and the tweezers conducted the heat of the iron and burnt my hand.

  142. Jyotiraditya Deka

    July 25, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Why the child was smarter than the teen ?

  143. Guitar Vlog

    July 25, 2020 at 8:27 pm

    9 yr old: hacking bad

  144. Ellis Weaver-Kreider

    July 25, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    Sammy is my hero!

  145. DeeWeber

    July 25, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    I love that he first asks about the person’s knowledge. It’s the very best way to start teaching any subject. What a great hacker teacher.

  146. Delta 38

    July 25, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    That 13 year old wasn’t interested at all.

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      July 26, 2020 at 7:04 pm

      I was interested but I was looking at the computer screen a lot to the camera. Also I was thinking about what I was gonna say I smiled a lot I guess the clips got cut out😊

  147. Lucio Garcia

    July 25, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    2:45 Apple against jailbreakers smh just tryina improve ios

  148. Andrey Braga

    July 26, 2020 at 12:59 am

    Dude wtf did no one notice that he uses a Kinect as a webcam probably

  149. Ira Ford

    July 26, 2020 at 1:59 am

    Great topic.

  150. im hunter

    July 26, 2020 at 2:32 am

    Ha, nerd.

  151. Rick

    July 26, 2020 at 2:46 am

    Obvs fake, didn’t have a console with green text flashing binary

  152. Aaron Pham

    July 26, 2020 at 4:24 am

    I guess machine learning specialist explains in 5 different level is next then =/

  153. Blume

    July 26, 2020 at 5:09 am

    samy: “u must make sure you’re obeying the law.”
    his mind: hold my beer

  154. Mladen Mavrovic

    July 26, 2020 at 5:19 am

    samy is my hero hahahaha

  155. Almeida

    July 26, 2020 at 7:13 am

    hacker:
    me with nordvpn: nananananananananana

  156. Han

    July 26, 2020 at 8:15 am

    I’m a simple person. I see Samy Kamkar, i click.

  157. Aryan Bhatia

    July 26, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Samy kamkar 🙂

  158. Ade Ra

    July 26, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    IsMeeeee!

  159. Ade Ra

    July 26, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    Please answer me this? As a programmer, is a “bug exploitation” considered not a hack? Or is a resultant bug of a hack considered evidence that someone just has a buggy operational system/program and not hacked? Im sure of the answer, but asking for someone I considered a friend (who is likely a hacker/scammer now – also scamming me and utilizing new understandings of psychology as well).

  160. Ade Ra

    July 26, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    I’m being facetious
    …. #NSA… halp?

  161. Kage 1110

    July 26, 2020 at 4:33 pm

    *S T O N K S*

  162. gemütlich

    July 26, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    Samy is hot

  163. Lester Sales

    July 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    His voice sounds like Techlead!

  164. Archock Encanto

    July 26, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    “I use it to make it easier for me to perform difficult tasks”
    Man’s described all video game hacks and so much more and he’s a “good hacker” 😂.

  165. infinitelyExplosive

    July 26, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    but most of all, samy is my hero

  166. Vladimir Kunau

    July 26, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Your really teaching this little girl that its ok to hack and mod games….. Wtf is wrong with you?

  167. Amazanta

    July 26, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    Best way to explain white box and black box penetration to a kid

  168. Tyler Smash

    July 26, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    That thumbnail is creepy.

  169. Carter Talley

    July 26, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    The best accidental hacker of all time

  170. Kelvin Pablo

    July 27, 2020 at 12:49 am

    usahacklord via Instagram,, his a genius and a best hacker ever with the best hacking services at affordable rate, he renders a quality and best hacking services,, his tested and a trusted real hacker,, he recovered most of my account to me,,try him now and get rid of other hacking scammers.

  171. Peter Ruoro

    July 27, 2020 at 4:32 am

    Well hacking to me is playing watchdogs

    • EL JAY LOUIS

      July 27, 2020 at 1:30 pm

      For any major or minor hacking ensure you dm @ luckyhack00 on instagram he is very efficient and reliable.he provides the best services so far.he is very affordable and charges way less,for a quick reply tell him david sent you you can also reach him on  whatsapp at +1 (205) 377‑0302‬ you can also reach him on janepearson662@gmail.com

  172. Jonathan Weinraub

    July 27, 2020 at 5:55 am

    I think Colin and the nine year old girl were the only ones interesting fo listen to. I think due to the expertise of the expert so it was two contemporaries. The youngster was just curious and asked really insightful questions and excellent comments which showed she listened. The teenager really rambled on about flappy bird and maybe it was just poor editing on Wired’s part as when I was 8 or so I made my first BASIC program without internet. The college student I really don’t think he really understood anything computer computer science and not sure how global politics has to do with what he even was talking about. Dunno again if it was just poor editing but the hacker guy I just saw in an earlier clip reviewing movies. Guess the YT algorithm tied them up together.

    I like these concepts but which they focused more on social engineering as that’s really still the easiest way. Humans want to help and if you have the confidence (I don’t) to call someone up and say there’s malware we need to reset your account many will unfortunately still fall for it.

    Though it is incredible the acoustics of a capacitor can be helpful as I seen a video of a crisps bag and a high speed camera able to determine what’s being typed. Similar concept.

  173. EL JAY LOUIS

    July 27, 2020 at 1:27 pm

    For
    any major or minor hacking ensure you dm @ luckyhack00 on instagram he
    is very efficient and reliable.he provides the best services so far.he
    is very affordable and charges way less,for a quick reply tell him david
    sent you you can also reach him on  whatsapp at +1 (205) 377‑0302‬ you can also reach him on janepearson662@gmail.com

  174. Abs Kamo

    July 27, 2020 at 1:32 pm

    010101010100101011010010101010010101010100101010110010101010
    10101010101010
    A true hacker would get this 😉

  175. BRYAN_ LLY

    July 27, 2020 at 2:10 pm

    When I was 13, best I could do is using cheat codes in Pokemon.

  176. Nephron Pie

    July 27, 2020 at 2:49 pm

    Hackers like to operate with motion blur it seems

  177. Mascha Bär

    July 27, 2020 at 2:53 pm

    and WHERE is my Category:

    For Total Idiots ?

    Why you clicked show more ? YOu Gehy ?

  178. Tim

    July 27, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    Samy is my hero

  179. Roger Cruz

    July 27, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    There’s no crimes without victims. And laws aren’t ethical, and shouldn’t be used as a compass for right and wrong.
    Just a comment about not being able to inspect your own devices and the whole NSA stuff… I’m brasilian and that has reached us here already…

  180. Karan B20

    July 27, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    Sammy actually seems too humble for a hacker….then i remember he took down the whole of myspace..

  181. Esther Waangui

    July 27, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    Must be nice to understand😍🤪

  182. y5e

    July 27, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    2:20 The smile on his face when she said “The good hacking” was very wholesome

  183. manaquri

    July 27, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    can we talk about how he’s a good teacher?
    for example instead of saying no he always says “yes, but…”

  184. Innosos

    July 27, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    I think it’s interesting that, having watched a lot of these “5 levels of difficulty” videos, some topics like this one have to be frequently annotated to give laymen a better chance at following while others were easy to follow along regardless.
    It kinda speaks to how much bogus you have to keep up with to be up-to-date in the techworld – either because it’s developing that rapidly, is too broad of a subject, has dozens and dozens of buzzwords or primarily talks in terms of concepts and abstractions rather than actual, palpable things.
    The truth is probably a combination of all of them and stuff I’ve not even considered…

  185. Luke J. / Nexus

    July 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Colin is so hot

  186. superpookie777

    July 28, 2020 at 5:50 am

    Yo, if you loved the idea of fault injection – check out some early renditions of DNS bit-squatting in Data Centers with non-ECC memory! Super interesting topic 8)

  187. Daniel Lopez

    July 28, 2020 at 9:27 am

    Wohoo wasnt excpecting it to be Samy 😀

  188. David Frankenstein

    July 28, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    Why does it seem so scripted?

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      July 28, 2020 at 7:43 pm

      It’s not

    • Dexx the Duck

      July 30, 2020 at 10:19 pm

      Because it’s edited to remove a good bit of the “uninteresting” stuff.

  189. kenchuvich Morcozo

    July 28, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    I can’t deny his beauty.

  190. ori61 51

    July 28, 2020 at 3:28 pm

    This guy is my hero

  191. Dazed & Confused

    July 28, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    college kids smart, hope he gets that internship

  192. Morgan Crossley

    July 28, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Is that an X-Class drone behind Samy??…

  193. Agustin Hernandez

    July 29, 2020 at 3:32 am

    He started hacking at 9 years old “to make the game he played easier”… he’s the one who ruined GTA for us…

  194. Pranav Patki

    July 29, 2020 at 5:41 am

    0:17 Lol they showed the code of multiplication of matrices for a hacking related video. Typical Hollywood stuff i’d say.

    • Abhinav Ashok

      July 30, 2020 at 9:07 pm

      😂😂

    • Dexx the Duck

      July 30, 2020 at 10:00 pm

      Matrices is multiple of matrix. The matrix is known for the black screen with green falling lines which is colloquially linked to hacking. Multiplying matrices equals hacking confirmed.

  195. CHRISTY MATHEW

    July 29, 2020 at 7:38 am

    HACKING IS THE FUTURE… PROBLEM IS…. WHERE YOU DECIDE TO STAND IN THE WAR AND WHAT YOUR CAPABILITIES ARE… AT LEAST TO SIMPLY PUT IT

  196. Kumar Tatsat

    July 29, 2020 at 8:47 am

    hacking and security research essentially becomes like a physicist’s job as you get near the apex of current trends of vulnerabilities and the future. dayum

  197. That Guy

    July 29, 2020 at 11:05 am

    I agree with some of these comments. He wasn’t wearing a balaclava in an internet cafe and installing Gentoo on his Thinkpad T420. He can’t be legit. I’m also disappointed that he didn’t go into the history of the word hacking and the change in perception over time due to technological advancements while going off on a tangent about hacking putty vs hacking PuTTY. In all seriousness, the lock analogy is always nice, and I think he did well explaining that permission and the law are the primary differentiators. The locksmiths and engineering consultants would be the ethical hackers while the burglars and escapists would be bad actors. Game modding/hacking can get a bit dicey. If it is just a purely aesthetic mod with no ulterior function or it’s a functional mod for a commercial game that you own a copy of, go nuts. If it’s an online game where your modifications are either changing server-side information through client manipulation (like exploiting bugs/injecting resources) or modifying the client such that it gives an unfair advantage (like overlays that highlight enemies), that would be unethical. I could go on for a long time about each of the rest, but this is already bordering on way too long.

  198. Adrian Chałupka

    July 30, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Ah yes. An oscilloscope showing the famous sine wave in the background. This guy is a fellow man of culture as well

  199. Random Guy

    July 30, 2020 at 10:35 am

    You know what hacking is
    Kid: “its bad”
    Hacker leaves the show, topic ended.

  200. Timetraveler 69

    July 30, 2020 at 11:51 am

    everyone: hacking = the matrix

  201. stefiuwu ;

    July 30, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    2:24 cheating in games ?

  202. YOU Hiburan Chanels

    July 30, 2020 at 1:58 pm

    I can hack website ,im no try hack website

  203. Diablo the Great

    July 30, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Use the fetch rewards app and inset the code 6JX58 for a hack giving you unlimited points!

  204. Swagato Chatterjee

    July 30, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    For a moment I thought sammy’s gonna say, yaah it’s bad like injecting scripts in myspace to increase friend counts.

  205. Zack smith

    July 30, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    I been in this game sense I was 16 year old I teach my own self how to hack and I been on both side of the hacker world and stop be a hacker with my friends we all try 30 year old now and have family I had to stop because I had family on the way now

  206. Bruce Gauthier

    July 30, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    Geweldige inhoud, ik heb de redhackpro geprobeerd en ik heb hun goede werk bij al deze hackers bevestigd, ze hebben me geholpen de telefoon van mijn vals spelende partner te hacken Ik heb naar al haar telefoontjes geluisterd, haar berichten op sociale media gelezen en ik kon goed worden bewijs voor mijn advocaat voor een scheiding. Ik was gekwetst maar blij dat ik het heb uitgeprobeerd. Neem contact met hem op voor soortgelijke problemen Whatsapp: +19378151491 VIA Instagram op @redhackpro, e-mail hackprivate8@gmailcom.

  207. unknownamus

    July 30, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    Svchost.exe is the bane of my existence.

  208. J. .M

    July 31, 2020 at 7:24 am

    I wonder if the grad student was working on deno?

  209. Armin F.

    July 31, 2020 at 1:57 pm

    The guy looks like Joe Jonas

  210. 506 independent VIDEO

    July 31, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    That ~15 yr old knows less then me.she is still using block-based code, whilst I know python and a little lua. I hacked an open source game (endless sky), to give me as much credits as possible, but I couldn’t change a kindle fire to android. I’m 13. There are some 10 yr olds that know more then me.

    • Default Profile

      August 1, 2020 at 11:33 am

      Good start, git gud

  211. Bogdan Shumenko

    August 1, 2020 at 7:02 am

    Of course college student is Indian lol

  212. ysixtytwo hmh

    August 1, 2020 at 9:34 am

    I hacked the internet by pressing F12

  213. FBI-Chan

    August 1, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    700th

  214. JP Abcede

    August 2, 2020 at 2:47 am

    No Mr Robot reference? Really?

  215. Hacked

    August 2, 2020 at 5:15 am

    Ok

  216. Truong Tuan

    August 2, 2020 at 7:47 am

    What a very smart kid in the beginning! ” When did you start doing good hacking? ”

  217. Aidan Drimak

    August 2, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    The Indian guy is a hacker scammer because he is

  218. Ibrahim Turundu

    August 2, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    With AI, this stuff must be skyrocketing to another level.

  219. Mike Escbdo

    August 2, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    This is just interesting and wholesome

  220. Aamiena Breda

    August 2, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    Really amazing concept to shed light on. The best teachers are ones who can teach in a way where they are understood by a person with some background in a subject as well as a person with no background at all in that subject.

  221. Ian B

    August 2, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    i love that the college student started trynna teach him about the shittiness of american interventionism in the middle of learning about buffer overflows
    like bruh he just told a 9-year-old girl that being a private tech cop for a large corporation represented being “the good guy,” his ears are closed until he gets categorized together with the al-Awlakis…

  222. M A

    August 3, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    **hacks bank account information by using meat scale**

    Computer: “Am I joke to you?”

  223. eli ochana

    August 3, 2020 at 2:48 pm

  224. smazorize

    August 3, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    That is one smart kid

  225. DrPengin Guitar

    August 4, 2020 at 2:29 am

    I’ve never heard a guy as Canadian as that last guy.

  226. SadKo2U

    August 4, 2020 at 2:54 am

    “…Things that were harder for me, I could make them easier…” bruuuh that’s an aimbot! 😂

  227. LolGt100

    August 4, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    That kid was confused af 😀

  228. James Rodriguez

    August 5, 2020 at 2:30 am

    The random shots of him nodding is annoying

  229. NU Variety Channel

    August 5, 2020 at 5:29 am

    He has an xbox connect on his monitor

  230. Sion Marak

    August 5, 2020 at 12:16 pm

    I like Kali

  231. Rayres

    August 5, 2020 at 3:24 pm

    Can’t wait to see this type of stuff with geology. Maybe about earthquakes, tectonic plates, or volcanoes.

  232. Mayank Bhaisora

    August 5, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    2:22 the smile on his face… Kids are so curious

  233. {DeDox}

    August 5, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    The closest things to hacking that i’ve pretty much ever done was:

    1.Guessing the Parental Controls password on the TV in 2 tries (it was my dad’s birth year :P)

    2. A year ago I took my dad’s phone when he wasn’t looking, typed his password (which was ALSO his birthday, as all parent’s passwords are), and going to settings to manually disable his Screen Time settings so I can download apps and use my phone for longer than 2 hours without having to “Ask Parent”

  234. ShadowFoxSF

    August 5, 2020 at 5:38 pm

    The lock analogy is spot on.
    Lockpicking powers can be used for evil or good. Same as hacking skills.

    Shout out to anyone that has helped someone who locked their keys in their car.

  235. Condescending Online Man

    August 5, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    Experts: Many IoT devices are vulnerable to attacks.
    Target: SMART MEAT SCALES!

  236. Jacob Morgan

    August 6, 2020 at 3:03 am

    So handsome…

  237. HateKillDestroy87

    August 6, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    the small kid at the start was amazing, smart girl !

  238. Thiago Araujo

    August 6, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    9 year olds on WIRED: Does x²-5x+6 = 0 have real polynomial roots?
    9 year old me: *proceeds to eat ants*

  239. Mohamed Mohammed

    August 6, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    He uses the word ‘malicious’ with a seven year old! Smart!

  240. Comrade_ Dolan

    August 6, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    What was the whole thing with lowering temperature? That idea intrigues me

    • Snowey Jr

      August 10, 2020 at 1:16 am

      Computers have fans to cool them when they over heat. Why? Well because higher temperature correlates to significantly lower speeds.

  241. Gorilla Man

    August 7, 2020 at 2:32 am

    But does he use incognito mode?

  242. The Witcher

    August 7, 2020 at 5:35 am

    That little girl was asking right questions
    Does that mean we are as smart as her even tho we are older than her

  243. REDnWHITEnGREY

    August 7, 2020 at 5:50 am

    I provide support via TeamViewer…some people call me a hacker after giving me access to their system and seeing me move their mouse .

  244. Ananya Bajpai CBTbkpKSIN

    August 7, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    Samy at 9: started to hack
    Me at 22: Google how to start hacking

  245. worship the comedy god seo eunkwang or else

    August 7, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    really hope you guys do one on social sciences…its such a good series but im a college grad and have a teen level understanding of bio, math, physics, computers and chem

  246. TheTekknician

    August 8, 2020 at 5:53 am

    There’s nothing more random then ethics, that is totally up to the current cultural values and norms, or zeitgeist if you will. Even most laws will adhere to this, because a cultural norm can be that strong, enforcement would want to protect the norm.

  247. Rizal Roshdi

    August 8, 2020 at 11:24 am

    Wow.. this is such a cool explanation. Thanks Samy!

  248. Mclary Madyira

    August 8, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    Level 1
    Hacker: so kid, can you name any computer virus that hackers can use ?
    Me if I was still 9 in 2020: Uhhhm, Corona

  249. Hekate none

    August 8, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    *watches this instead of studying for exams*
    hey, I understood most of that!
    *remembers that I study computer science*
    …let’s say this is basically studying?

  250. DeVonte Kuykendall

    August 9, 2020 at 7:46 am

    The little kid at the beginning, their face lit right up when he said that he started when he was , because they thought that they could do something like that as well.

  251. Stacy Camacho

    August 9, 2020 at 8:35 am

    This reminds me of my then 13 year old hacking into the school district computer system. Putting pornographic pictures as a screensaver. 😂😂😂😂 IT needed new employees after that.

  252. Shinobi Engineer

    August 9, 2020 at 9:37 am

    “but most of all, Samy is my hero” 😎👍

  253. DJSigmann The Lewd

    August 9, 2020 at 9:52 am

    It’s Samy Kamkar!

  254. JavaoftheLava

    August 9, 2020 at 10:29 am

    I always skip the teen and college student sections of this series. They always seem like they’re lost and are just trying to be polite lol

    • linda Ohia-Enyia

      August 10, 2020 at 1:19 am

      😬😭

  255. Richard Benoit

    August 9, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Thanks for the post.

  256. Yasas sri Jayawardena

    August 9, 2020 at 1:52 pm

    You’re not a hacker unless,
    1.you wear a hoodie ( must)
    2.you always have green text on your computer
    3.you keep typing all day

  257. Phuntsog Wangdus

    August 9, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    Meet
    Samy .. The Legend

  258. GOKOP

    August 9, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Expert level in these videos is always no more explaining and a conversation instead

  259. Rickey Oudhoo

    August 9, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    20% of the comments – Omg, that 9 year old is so smart!

    The other 80% – OMG, THAT 9 YEAR OLD IS SOO SMART!!…

  260. Earl Co

    August 10, 2020 at 4:51 am

    NYU and Prof. Cappos represent!

  261. Dan Macklin

    August 10, 2020 at 6:59 am

    I understand y the grad student is there, hacking has so many subcategories but I felt that a student working with operating system exploits is different than the topic of network hacking, but nonetheless they all have overlapping information

  262. sillykitten202

    August 10, 2020 at 11:49 am

    He said seg faults and I got triggered 😅🥴😅🥴

  263. Nidhin Abraham

    August 11, 2020 at 6:35 am

    Computer inputs..spacebar?🤔

  264. AppleJuis

    August 11, 2020 at 9:12 am

    FAKE!!!
    HE ISN’T WEARING AN ANONYMOUS MASK!

  265. Saurabh Behere

    August 11, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    are those B & W in the background?

  266. Nicole Abrahão

    August 11, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    The way he explains “good hacking”, isn’t it like modding in games? If not, what’s the difference?

  267. Synthesizer

    August 12, 2020 at 12:04 am

    Oh, so that Terry guy might have been on to something with that bare-bones OS until he turned it into TempleOS.

  268. vipnetworker

    August 12, 2020 at 7:29 am

    FAKE… He’s not a real hacker. He’s not on Adderall (speaking too normally), there are no empty pizza boxes or cans of Red Bull:Monster around him, he’s not wearing sunglasses or a hoodie, and he has zero accent.

    This guy is an actor and part time yoga instructor. He also drives Uber on the side.

  269. vipnetworker

    August 12, 2020 at 7:31 am

    8 year old: Did your parents approve of that?

    Me: Is that a real kid? Or a robot programed to be adorable and teach compliance?

    If that’s a real kid, her parents hacked her brain.

  270. Roska

    August 12, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    Sammy <3

  271. Kenneth 654

    August 12, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    He looks like he could be Chris Morocco’s hacker brother.

  272. Rhachel Brown

    August 12, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    Level 1: IBM
    Level 2: Best Buy
    Level 3: Microsoft
    Level 4: Apple
    Level 5: Quantum Physicist

  273. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

    August 13, 2020 at 7:59 am

    He went through pretty smoothly, but I’ve got the feeling he failed the child level.

  274. Dick Veldwijk

    August 13, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    6:00 Indian tech scammer in college

  275. Mike McCarthy

    August 13, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    Code.org google it drilling down to the lizard brain

  276. Mat0m

    August 14, 2020 at 12:21 am

    I think on those wired series, experts are just those who could be the main protagonist but just dont know how to explain to others nubbies

  277. Professional YouTuber

    August 14, 2020 at 4:20 am

    The kids on these always seem more interested and ask better questions than the teenagers for some reason

  278. Vic

    August 14, 2020 at 5:13 am

    I didn’t even know how deep the rabbit hole went…the expert to expert conversation completely confused me.

  279. DR Shinobi

    August 14, 2020 at 7:43 am

    What if I hack my own account????

  280. Amy Velazquez

    August 15, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    Would love to see an episode on sociologists!!

  281. thinkpad20

    August 15, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    10:47 this kid some kind of Young Republican or something

  282. Joannes Ferrari

    August 16, 2020 at 10:02 am

    You should change those Rokits for some Yamahas or JBLs. The Rokits color sound way too much.

  283. J C

    August 16, 2020 at 1:57 pm

    10:53.. This quickly took a dark turn!

  284. No Akomplice

    August 16, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Why does the child seem more intelligent and competent than the teen? Oh…

  285. MZ flighter

    August 16, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    I love how he cultivates the sine on the oscilloscope meme

  286. Fernando Rojas

    August 17, 2020 at 12:29 am

    The college student looks like rajesh koothrappali

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