Episodes

  • The history of Laura, Rachael, and Ben

    The history of Laura, Rachael, and Ben
    Sep 10 2025
    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 year anniversary of the IoT Village. We talk about the importance of cybersecurity education, the innovative efforts of IoT Village, and some awesome stories from Laura's book. We discuss […]
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    39 mins
  • The history of David Bernstein

    The history of David Bernstein
    Sep 2 2025
    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 really interesting commentary about how emergency management and infosec collide. David isn't what many would consider a traditional hacker, but it's clear he has had incredible impact over the […]
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    33 mins
  • The history of Thug Shells

    The history of Thug Shells
    Mar 18 2025
    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? It's a super fun conversation where we learn a lot about Thuggy as well as how rapping works, and all the uncanny connections to the world of […]
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    30 mins
  • The history of Ela

    The history of Ela
    Jan 29 2025
    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 Wall, Ela became deeply involved in the hacker scene, joining the Chaos Computer Club, attending early DEFCONs, and witnessing the merging of East and West German hacker cultures. […]
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    51 mins
  • The history of Marc Boorshtein

    The history of Marc Boorshtein
    Jan 16 2025
    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 Dad. Marc tells us about the early days of LDAP and Kerberos to modern Kubernetes, he shares war stories about managing critical infrastructure and accidentally shutting down a company's […]
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    59 mins
  • The history of Cyberpunk Librarian

    The history of Cyberpunk Librarian
    Jan 6 2025
    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 making computers do whatever they want. We then get to learn about the journey of Cyberpunk Librarian as an actual librarian. You're going to learn more about how libraries […]
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • The history of Johnny Xmas

    The history of Johnny Xmas
    Dec 18 2024
    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 discusses taking things apart (like a wall outlet), putting them back together, typewriters, libraries and getting into plenty of trouble in high school, and finally landing in music school. It's […]
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    39 mins
  • The history of The Gibson

    The history of The Gibson
    Sep 18 2024
    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 decides to get out of the hacker scene for a while. But Gibson is drawn back in, and start doing some amazing world changing work. We hear […]
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    51 mins