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 first projects. He starts out with a BBS and eventually hacks into his school's BBS system. Dana goes to college as a theology major and ends up running IT for a school. Nothing brings out the hacker mindset like keeping a school's computers running. We hear about Dana using OSINT to figure out a drop shipping scam only to find out the FBI wasn't interested in the details. We finish up with a lot of great advice for anyone in tech, both old and new. It's a great conversation with a lot of fun stories!
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 himself picking up UNIX and Linux, working at a university on amazing projects, and find himself in the world of security. We hear about Paul's days at Tenable, becoming a legendary podcaster, and eventually landing at Eclypsium. It's a fun story and Paul is a fantastic storyteller.
Hacker History sits down with Mike Goetzman to learn about his history. Mike is the person behind the CypherCon, the Wisconsin Hacker Conference. We learn about how Mike caused some trouble in school, got to help out as the "punishment", goes to school, meets his wife on ICQ. Mike traveled to Cuba to help spread information which may not have had the intended impact. We finish up with Mike using Bitcoin proceeds to start CypherCon.
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 Midwestern hacker in the late 80s and early 90s. We discuss phreaking, hacking, hardware, phones, culture, a message for the newest hackers among us, and more.