Pyr0

About this episode

Pyr0 discusses his journey from hacking to building a new conference dedicated to preserving hacker culture.

One batch file flatlined an entire school district’s network. That was 1994, in a town so small you could drive fifteen minutes and see nothing but the curvature of the earth. By sixteen he was building one of Wyoming’s first ISPs, and by 1996 he had already founded a Red Team. Then came twenty three years as a DEF CON goon, followed by an offensive security practice that scaled to 132 pen testers and nearly forty million dollars a year. He has breached security inside Ferrari dealerships, biolabs, and financial trading floors. If it had a lock, a network, a password, or a perimeter, Pyr0 found a way through it. Now he lives off grid in the mountains of Northern Colorado, running ham radio on solar, raising chickens, and still pulling sixty hour weeks breaking into things that were never supposed to be breakable. And this year, he's building something new. A conference on the beach at Carolina Beach, NC that is dedicated to preserving the stories and the history of hacking before they're lost to time. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction and Background 09:44 Life Off-Grid: The Journey 19:10 Introducing naclcon: A Community-Driven Conference 26:55 Conference Planning and Logistics 32:10…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Glanden

Guest: Pyr0

Topics covered

• hacking
• cybersecurity
• offensive security
• conference planning
• hacker culture
• life off-grid

Keywords

• hacking
• cybersecurity
• NaClCon
• DEF CON
• offensive security
• conference
• life off-grid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NaClCon

Places: Northern Colorado, Carolina Beach, NC

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