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The Program - William Binney Interview
TheDigitalperipheral · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2013–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 11 other interview videos tagged Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 1.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 8 minutes 19 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-08-25.
- Channel / speaker
- TheDigitalperipheral
- Verified runtime
- 8m 19s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-08-25
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other interview videos in Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Program - William Binney InterviewCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 8m 19s | 2012-08-25 |
| Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)interview · LastWeekTonight | 5 | 5 | 25% | No recorded overlap | 33m 14s | 2015-04-06 |
| Steve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)interview · iwasjojo | 4 | 4 | 20% | No recorded overlap | 3m 19s | 2010-06-26 |
| Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stageinterview · Det Kgl. Bibliotek | 3 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 81m 0s | 2014-05-19 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1”. Its short rationale: Binney testimony cited as clear evidence of domestic spying.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1”. Its short rationale: Binney testimony cited in debate with another commenter.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1”. Its short rationale: Binney testimony cited in argument about domestic surveillance.