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Speeches

Def Con and Black Hat

February 5, 2009

Some speakers give the same speech to every audience. Thieme doesn’t. He has been privileged to grow each year with the evolution of the Def Con and Black Hat computer security conferences. Each Thieme speech is intended for a specific context and event. Audio and video streams of Def Con and Black Hat speeches can [...]

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Wisconsin Business Owners Network

February 5, 2009

A casual luncheon speech to the Wisconsin Business Owners Network
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A Speech in Honor of Einstein’s Birthday

February 5, 2009

Cyber Kung Fu Relativity Week 2008
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A Complete Speech for DefCon 8

July 5, 2000

July, 2000
“A Passion for Hacking and Living on the Edge”

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New Gods, New Worlds

February 7, 2000

An audio excerpt from “An Interview with Richard Thieme”

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The Strategies of Sun Tzu and Multiple Levels of Deception

February 7, 2000

“The Strategies of Sun Tzu and Multiple Levels of Deception: How to Play Chess While the Board is Disappearing”
A complete speech for Black Hat Briefings 2000

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A Silent Retreat

June 27, 1997

The mind is like a chattering monkey, some Buddhists say, and one goal of disciplined spirituality — i.e. doing “what works” — is to quiet that mind.
Spiritual tools are practices validated by generations of trial-and-error that more or less work, that allow the “ambient noise” of our lives to diminish and finally — [...]

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