Jonathan Tomek, co-founder of Chicago’s THOTCON, joins me on this podcast to discuss threat intelligence, ham radio, and what it’s like to run a hacker conference and the genesis of THOTCON. We talk about how he’s gathered threat intelligence data through Iranian hacker groups. We discuss QRP records sending messages thousands of miles with very low power. He shares a hilarious anecdote about how Michael Goetzman (organizer of CypherCon) hacked THOTCON for a lifetime badge. We touch on Samy’s project OpenSesame, where he reprogram a kid’s IM-me texting toy to open most garages. Jonathan talks about his dream of one day running a hacker farm. We talk about that common thread in the hacker mentality to get out and do something fresh from the ground up. Enjoy the podcast with Jonathan Tomek and feel free to say hi to him on Twitter @sakebomb.