Hacker History Podcast

About Hacker History Podcast

Hacker History: Explore where it all began, interviews with retro hackers, the pioneers and forefathers of yesteryear. The true old school hackers amongst our societies have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. We will dive into fascinating stories that made hacker history.

Publisher

Josh Bressers

Category

education · technology · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Mar 2021

Latest episode

24 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 53 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The history of Michael Lenz

   Host [Host Name] interviews infosec pioneer Michael Lenz about his journey from the Commodore 64 era to building early SOC and SIEM systems.

2. 

   10 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The history of Jeff Man

   Host Jeff Man shares his journey from the NSA to red teaming and his insights into the security industry in this interview.

3. 

   13 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The history of Bill Bernard

   Host [Host Name] interviews Bill Bernard, who shares his early computing experiences and engineering career at Zenith and the phone company.

Inside a recent episode

The history of Michael Lenz

Published 24 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We're always messing with Johnny or somebody. We're, you know, passing our raffle tickets and telling people to try and find Johnny. Like, you know, like, where's Waldo? Because you can't find Johnny at DEF CON. Good luck trying to find him there. unless you know where he is but um we did that all the time so people were like looking over for him and and that's the kind of stuff we have fun with and i'm like this is what i like to have at these conferences and then last year i went to um defcon and when i was there i was talking to sean which is one of the birth stack guys and he's like you should really start your own i'm like what do i how do i do you know because i wanted something here like it is there and um just started creating my own kind of community here because there's nothing here like that in cybersecurity. […]

Who has been a guest on Hacker History Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Michael Lenz
• Jeff Man
• Bill Bernard
• Johnny Xmas

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

14,701

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

55 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

96

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