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Breaking Badness

Building a Hacker Conference from Scratch: The Wild Origins of ShmooCon

Mar 5, 2025
44:32
In this episode of Breaking Badness, we sit down with Bruce and Heidi Potter, two of the masterminds behind ShmooCon, the legendary cybersecurity conference that ran for 20 years. They take us behind the scenes, from its hilarious bar-napkin origins to how they built a tight-knit hacker community that thrived for two decades.

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