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DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

DEFCONConference · 268.6K views · 2015-08-14 · 31:28

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Overview

A DEF CON 23 talk showing how weak controls in electronic death registration systems let someone virtually kill a person and obtain a real death certificate, with consequences for their identity and life.

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HN repeatedly recommends it whenever fake deaths, identity verification or records fraud come up, praising how easy the attack seemed.

Recommended by 7 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2016–2025

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Security & hackingPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrime
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What people said

unforgivenpasta · 2023-12 · Recommendation

It is! This video is a bit old now but it's still so unbelievable how easy it was for the speaker to "kill" people (in Australia) [VIDEO]

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TheDong · 2020-11 · Recommendation

On the subject of people being declared dead, there's a good defcon talk about abusing how easy it is to declare someone dead. "Chris Rock - I Will Kill You" [VIDEO]

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chatmasta · 2019-11 · Recommendation

An alarming amount of societal functionality depends on what effectively amounts to the honor system. This is especially true when it comes to any sort of gatekept specialty profession, like coroners for example. There was a great talk at DefCon about faking death: [VIDEO]

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