Videos of Speeches and Interviews

This presentation is beyond fiction. Current research in neuroscience and the extension and augmentation of senses is proceeding in directions that might sound to a twentieth century mind like science fiction. Progress is rapid but unevenly distributed: Some is...

A quarter-century ago, I began addressing the impacts of the hacker revolution on the human inside the machine - how it would transform our lives, our thinking, our work, our identities. I was describing the "digital revolution" as a transformational engine, not as an...

Radical hacking is a state of mind, an approach to life, the universe, everything, a practice that must be understood with humility, explored with persistence, and mastered with grace and a flair for style. It begins in the beginning. In Zen we hear of “beginners’...

Over a decade ago, a friend at the National Security Agency told Richard Thieme that he could address the core issues they discussed in a context of “ethical considerations for intelligence and security professionals” only if he wrote fiction. “It’s the only way you...

An overview of some of the issues confronting us in this space.

DEF CON is the world's largest hacking conference, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2012 it was held for the 20th time. The conference has strict no-filming policies, but for DEF CON 20, a documentary crew was allowed full access to the event. The film follows the four...

A clip from the full Def Con documentary, Richard Thieme tells the truth.

ThiemeWorks Thieme's keynote at DEF CON 4 for a few hundred people was "Hacking as Practice for Trans-planetary Life in the 21st Century." Mudge recently said, "Some of us knew what you meant, and some of us thought you were nuts." That's likely to be the response to...

Dan Geer is CISO of CIA’s In-Q-Tel and a LOT of other things as well. Josh Corman interrogates the left brain guru and right brain dreamer of the information security world, to good effect.  This event took place the day after the marathon bombing in Boston.

Hacking for transparency in the 21st century. A general approach to the challenges of the day.

This talk is not about three things to do Monday morning. It is designed to illuminate the fuzzy landscape of our professional and personal lives so that when you come to critical crossroads of thinking or decision-making, you remember what was discussed and nuance...

Nothing is harder to see than things we believe so deeply we don't even see them. This is certainly true in the "security space," in which our narratives are self-referential, bounded by mutual self-interest, and characterized by a heavy dose of group-think. That...