This clip was extracted from the video posted by Johns Hopkins University on YouTube. It's from a video recroding of "The Johns Hopkins Foreign Affairs Symposium Presents: The Price of Privacy: Re-Evaluating the NSA" on 2014-04-07

This video was embedded in my article The Banality of Artificial Intelligence (Or "What happens when an AI hallucination leads to bombing an elementary school?")

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2026/03/03/ai-venezuela-iran/

Further Resources:

1. https://www.justsecurity.org/10318/video-clip-director-nsa-cia-we-kill-people-based-metadata/
2. https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/metadeath-how-does-metadata-surveillance-inform-lethal-consequenc/
3. https://archive.org/details/youtube-kV2HDM86XgI

Jay (Will Smith): 8-year old with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit. She's about 8 years old, those books are wayy too advanced for her. If you ask me, I say she's up to something.

© Marvel Comics, Amblin Entertainment, MacDonald/Parkes Productions, Sony Pictures Releasing, and Columbia Pictures

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay by Ed Solomon
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, and Rip Torn

FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made availble for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.

This video was embedded in my article The Banality of Artificial Intelligence (Or "What happens when an AI hallucination leads to bombing an elementary school?")

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2026/03/03/ai-venezuela-iran/

• https://eco-libre.org/join

Attribution:

• Footage and editing by Michael Altfield https://michaelaltfield.net
• Music Messe X by Smurd https://archive.org/details/Mo_Gear-13309/Smurd_-_05_-_Messe_X.mp3

• http://opensourceecology.org/w/index.php?title=FreeCAD_101&redirect=no#FreeCAD_Test

Directed by Mike Judge
Screenplay by Etan Cohen, Mike Judge
Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.

FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made availble for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.

This video was embedded in my article Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains) (Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account)

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2026/02/03/single-site-browser-firejail-proxychains/

Playlist

00:38 Crowd Supply news
05:04 Introducing Michael Altfield
06:45 An overview of Buskill and a look at its origins
08:55 Video demonstration of Buskill
11:02 Michael's blog and the impetus for creating Buskill
13:11 The journey from idea to prototype to hacker project to mass prod
14:50 Who's using Buskill?
15:55 The importance of accessibility, so the hardware can protect the less tech-savvy.
18:56 Audience Question: What's the longest cord available for Buskill?
20:20 Why open hardware is especially important to security
22:56 Open hardware and the need for a paradigm shift away from artificial scarcity
23:40 Building hardware that's verifiable is not just important for security, it also aligns with Michael's personal values
27:05 Designing a 3D printed cable
29:01 A tour of the Buskill repos
30:02 Buskill live demo!
31:40 The importance of simple, multi-OS compatibility, especially Qubes and TAILS.
33:30 Tour of Buskill's config and software
34:46 A look at the LUKS header-shredder
36:28 Forensics of the self-destruct feature and a look at the code behind it
42:43 Audience Question: Do any of the scripts disable USB ports?
44:42 Maker Plea: put in a PR, help us out!
45:20 The Buskill team and contributors
47:52 Audience Question: What type of device to Buskill enumerate as?
49:12 Some of Michael's influences, role models, and inspirations
51:05 About future and side projects, plus Buskill's future dev plans
53:30 The experience of being a first-time manufacturer
59:20 How to address the issue of "interdiction" for Buskill?
1:02:11 Audience Question: Any prospect of making the connecter and housing transparent? (A real-time community contribution to development!)

Links & Resources

• Buskill on Crowd Supply https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buskill
• Buskill repo on GitHub: https://github.com/BusKill
• Open Source Ecology project: https://www.opensourceecology.org/
• Blog post LUKS self-destruct feature (see 40:22): www.buskill.in/luks-self-destruct/
• Qubes OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/
• TAILS OS: https://tails.boum.org/
• Teardown Sessions home page: www.crowdsupply.com/crowd-supply/the-teardown-sessions

Twitter: @helenleigh, @crowd_supply, @michaelaltfield

About this Week's Guest

Michael Altfield is a software engineer, writer, security expert, and privacy advocate. He is since a tireless supporter of the free software movement and has contributed to several FOSS projects--including Open Source Ecology, Wikipedia, phpList, BusKill and Coviz.

About Crowd Supply and The Teardown Sessions

Welcome to The Teardown Sessions, a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests. Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers.

Come on by and see what our creators are making: https://www.crowdsupply.com.

Join us on Discord to chat with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and the community at large: https://discord.gg/mAgtHAw

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Video is licensed CC BY-SA. Attribution: Helen Leigh and Crowd Supply.

• www.aureka.com/earth-construction-equipment/auram-crusher
• https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Auroville_Earth_Institute#Auram_Crusher
• http://www.earth-auroville.com/motorised_mixer_en.php

• https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/3D_Printer

This workshop was lead by:

• Marcin Jakubowski https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/User:Marcin
• Catarina Mota https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/User:Catarina
• Michael Altfield https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/User:Maltfield

For more information about Open Source Ecology, please visit our website

• https://www.opensourceecology.org

Soundtrack: Welcome in the intox by Bluemillenium http://ccmixter.org/files/Bluemillenium/57202