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CypherCon Podcast

Author: Kyle Puckhaber

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Interviews with Hackers around the conference CypherCon, Milwaukee Wisconsin's hacker con. Explore interviews with community hackers involved with or around CypherCon, Wisconsin’s Hacker Conference. CypherCon attracts over 1000 attendees every Spring in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Nabeel is a fresh college grad full of excitement and optimism. I enjoyed chatting with him about side hustles, tips for networking with professionals and landing internships, and discussing how his first talk at CypherCon. Check out Nabeel’s creative website at nabeel.fun to learn more and also feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn.
We’re back after CypherCon 7 and I’m talking with Eric Escobar about all things wireless. Eric’s been with CypherCon from the beginning and trying to hack the scoreboard in Capture the Con launched his security career! I had so much fun learning about all the wireless risks, vulnerabilities, and risk acceptance. We also discuss the...
In this episode I talk with Torie who discusses her consciousness awakening. We discuss channeling entities, telepathy, history and future of consciousness expansion, and many other mind bending topics. If you’d like to reach out to Torie you can find her on her website https://empathicgangster.com/
On this episode I talk with @At0xNQ about his journey into crypto from an interest in telemedicine and issues around hospital payment systems. He started NerdQuarters Telegram group where he met the founder of Strudel protocol and took it over for him. He went on to start Orkan protocol. We dive into all this fun...
Had an excellent conversation with Cullah! We talk about his music journey and how it led him to start Firebird Media, a Web3 based music collaboration and licensing platform. You can checkout this clip of The Wolff Family band his grandparents started and hold the world record for the biggest family band ever with 17...
We’re back! I got a lot of great feedback at CypherCon6 about the podcast and when I’m going to get another episode out. Due to popular demand, we’re back. I met Evan Adams at CypherCon and he told me about the ChatGPT research he was doing. On this episode we talk about all angles of...
I had the pleasure of visiting Lance, Ben, and Travis at the Holosoft Fortress. They showed me some amazing projects that they’re working on in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. They showed some amazing applications in education, business development, entertainment and even surgery. This taste of XR applications got my brain cooking about the possibilities...
Chris Roberts (@Sidragon1) joins me on this episode of the podcast to talk all sorts of hacker things from his new podcast Dr. Dark Web to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We discuss his code of ethics and how he decides how to act on an exploit he discovers. His ragtag crew known as Hill...
I have the pleasure of speaking with one of my favorite authors, Daniel Pinchbeck. We started a dialogue after I replied to one of his articles on his substack that explored some of the problematic aspects of cryptocurrency. On this episode we discuss the promises and perils of cryptocurrency, organizing society in a functional anarchy,...
Dr. Bruce Krawisz joins me to discuss climate change. Dr. Krawisz is a retired physician who dedicated his retirement to researching and speaking about climate change. He was moved by research he read at https://www.lancetcountdown.org/ that showed a lot of devastating climate ecological disasters. We discuss the health problems caused by climate change, the catalysts...
Russ From comes back on the podcast to discuss decentralized infrastructure and telecom. We discuss decentralized infrastructure with https://threefold.io/. And then we discuss decentralized telecom with Helium. You can check out how much people are making near your house to get an idea of how profitable it would be to install your own device at...
On this Episode of the podcast I talk with Alma Rinasz and we talk about everything. I met Alma in a book club where we read the book After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond. So naturally we started out discussing what happens when we die. Amongst other topics we...
On this episode I chat with my good friend Eric <redacted>. He shares his story about hacking his high school network and how that’s shaped who he is today as a leader in the fight for marijuana legalization. As a young obedient student, Eric learned that the system works for some people. In his frustration,...
Matt Werner aka @ropstenrich comes back during this cryptocurrency bull run to talk about DeFi. Matt is an expert in the cryptocurrency industry and a Product Manager at the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is disrupting the traditional banking system as we know it. Financial tools and actions such as borrowing, lending, insurance, and...
Calib Madrigal returns to the podcast to talk about God’s Art, a project he’s been working on to turn math equations into beautiful works of art. We talk about TruthyGraph, his fun project where you can see the artisticness of an equation’s truthliness.  We talk a bit about his move down to Georgia and the...
Tim Medin joins me on this podcast to talk about his journey to starting the pentesting company Red Siege. He gives advice to pentesters who might be thinking of going out on their own to weigh the pros and cons. From there we discuss some of the pentesting strategies that have emerged over the last...
On this episode, I spent New Years Eve with Nick Wersel at Dead Bird Brewing Company. We talk about our urban foraging adventure we took last spring in Milwaukee. We discuss hacking business in pandemic times and how Dead Bird Brewing’s model has pivoted. We also talk about Nick’s new brand of fermented and canned...
Ted Harrington joins us again on the podcast to talk about his new book Hackable. We discuss how to take a complicated subject and simplify it to make it accessible for anyone to understand. We discuss the perils of doing only Black Box pentesting and how choosing a security partner to help with your security...
Daniel Creed shares stories of the meandering journey of his career from studying music in college to becoming the Global Director of Information Security at Transunion. He’s seen a lot of things in his day (including getting shot in Peru taking down nefarious bank executives amongst other fascinating stories). We talk about the role of...
It’s not everyday you get the chance to chat with a courageous genius like HD Moore. In this episode, we talk about HD’s youth spent dumpster diving for computer parts and how those early days tinkering and building influenced the creation of Metasploit and what HD is up to now with Rumble. We talk about...
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