Hacker History Podcast
Episodes
The history of Pyr0
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Luke McOmie, AKA Pyr0, to talk about a new conference about hacker history, as well as his history. Pyr0 tells us all ab...
The history of Laura, Rachael, and Ben
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a packed episode where we talk to Laura Scherling, Ben Schmerler, and Rachael Tubbs about some hacker history, some hacker future, and the ten...
The history of David Bernstein
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with David Bernstein. We learn about David's past in emergency management. David has seen a ton of wild events, and has some ...
The history of Thug Shells
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thug Shells is a freestyle rapper who hacks the english language, making it do whatever she wants. Did you know a group of rappers is called a cypher?...
The history of Ela
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ela grew up in East Germany during the 1980s, where they were introduced to computers and electronics at a young age. After the fall of the Berlin Wal...
The history of Marc Boorshtein
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Marc Boorshtein, we learn of his journey from tinkering with Doom shareware as a kid and getting free hardware from his ...
The history of Cyberpunk Librarian
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Cyberpunk Librarian. We hear about his early years of Commodore 64 and BBS, the usual getting in trouble in school and m...
The history of Johnny Xmas
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Johnny Xmas. Johnny tells us about his journey into the world of hacking and tech, starting from his childhood, he discu...
The history of The Gibson
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with The Gibson. We cover how Gibson got to where he is today. We start out hearing of Gibson's early hacker days, then he de...
The history of Wade Wells
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Wade Wells. Wade sits on the board of BSides San Diego and has an amazing journey that got him there. Wade recounts how ...
The history of Dana Morrison
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Dana Morrison and hears his story into tech. Dana starts out with a Commodore 64 and writes a war dialer as one of the f...
The history of Jindrich Karasek
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Jindrich Krasek. We hear about how Jindrich's journey started out as a medical researcher. He had to hack a machine he w...
The history of HD Moore
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with HD Moore. We hear about his story when he was young and making hardware work that probably shouldn't have worked. His sh...
The history of Paul Asadoorian
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Paul Asadoorian and learn about his journey. Paul starts out with an Apple II, BASIC, and Pascal as a youth, then finds ...
The history of Emily Fox
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Emily Fox. We hear about Emily's history in the US Federal Government where she got a start in technology. There are a l...
The history of Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda. Rob tells us all about how he created Slashdot back in the day. Rob's story is full of amazing twi...
The history of Kyle Rankin
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Kyle Rankin to hear his story. Kyle walks us through his journey into being an author of many technical books. We touch ...
The history of signal9
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with signal9 and talk about his story. He starts out learning computers in the 80's then takes a massive detour into the worl...
The history of Harish Pillay
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Harish Pillay and hear about his journey. We start with curiosity that leads to hardware and ham radio. Eventually Haris...
The history of Abe
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Abe. We hear about Abe's younger days in rural Canada. How he accidentally ended up in the Canadian army, and got to hel...
The history of Lars Wirzenius
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Lars Wirzenius. We hear about Lars growing up in Finland and the unique Swedish computer he started using. The GNU Manif...
The history of Shecky
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Shecky about his hacker story. We start with Atari computers and PDP11s. Shecky tells us how sometimes the least technic...
The history of EvilMog
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with evilmog and learns of his hacker story. We start out hearing about evilmog's antics as a youth including hacking muds, g...
The history of Jarrod Coulter
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Jarrod Coulter to talk about how he got into red teaming. Jarrod's story starts out in IT and eventually find us discuss...
The history of Hash
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Hash to hear his history. Hash tells us how he got into the world of smart meter hacking. This led to the website RECESS...
The history of Investigator Chic
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Investigator Chic to hear all about how she got into hacking. Like many of us, she didn't start out on a path focused on...
The history of wirefall
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with wirefall and hears his story. Wirefall started his journey trying to avoid tech. He considers his early life a series of...
The history of Shannon Fritz
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Shannon Fritz to hear his story. Shannon started out as a kid playing with video games and computers, but had a very int...
The history of Robert Reif
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Robert Reif or winxp5421 to hear his story. Robert got a start on some old gear, left tech for a while, and now runs pas...
The history of Bryan Mcaninch
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Bryan Mcaninch about how he ended up founding Hacking is NOT a Crime. We learn of Bryan's past learning tech from his gr...
The history of Jonathan Leitschuh
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Jonathan Leitschuh. We cover how he started out in robotics and found his way into security. Jonathan has reported vulne...
The history of Casey Ellis
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Casey Ellis, the founder and chairman of Bugcrowd and co founder of disclose.io project. Casey talks about his history w...
The history of Brian Proffitt
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Brian Proffitt to discuss his journey from tech journalist to community organizer. Brian was an author and journalist du...
The history of Dick Morrell
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Dick Morrell to discuss the history of many many things. Dick started in the UK working on a lot of different computing ...
The history of Gianluca Varisco
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Gianluca Varisco and learns about his story. He started out in 90s working on micro computers. We learn how he got into ...
The history of Greg Ferro
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Greg Ferro AKA EtherealMind. We learn how Greg started his podcast and blogging empire back before most people even know...
The history of Chloé Messdaghi
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Chloé Messdaghi. We learn about her work with Hacking is NOT a Crime. How she hacked her way into Summer Camp. What it'...
The history of InfoSecSherpa
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Tracy Maleeff AKA InfoSecSherpa. We learn of Tracy's early years, how she developed the hacker mindset by breaking into ...
The history of Larry Cashdollar
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Larry Cashdollar. We learn about Larry's humble beginnings not being allowed to touch the home computer. He talks about ...
The history of Mike Goetzman
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Mike Goetzman to learn about his history. Mike is the person behind the CypherCon, the Wisconsin Hacker Conference. We l...
The history of Steve Ragan
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Steve Ragan. Steve tells us about his early years of computer games, hacking, warez, modems, and dumpster diving. He eve...
The history of Melanie Ensign
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Melanie Ensign and learn about how she got started programming church hymns into the home computer. Melanie's journey be...
The History of Wolfgang Goerlich
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Wolfgang Goerlich. We learn about the importance of having root and admin when becoming a hacker and how truly important...
The history of Bitterman
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Bitterman. We start our story with computer classes at school. We learn about Bitterman's many hacks to solve problems, ...
The history of Simple Nomad
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Mark Loveless AKA Simple Nomad. We start our story by buying a bluebox from Woz and Steve Jobs. Mark picks up his handle...
The history of Paul Wouters
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Paul to discuss his hacker story. It starts with a home built Apple II clone in the Netherlands. We talk about some shen...
The history of Carfucar
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Carfucar to talk about the history of car hacking. Carfucar was the co-founder of the Car Hacking Village and was one of...
The history of Bill Degnan
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with Bill Degnan to talk about how he got into computers. Bill started out as as an ice cream man and ended up owning a vinta...
The history of D1g1t4l_T3mpl4r
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hacker History sits down with D1g1t4l_T3mpl4r to discuss his hacker story. We learn about how D1g1t4l_T3mpl4r got into hacking, what it was like for a...