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Hacker Spirit

4 / 5

French-language long-form interview podcast with practitioners, hackers, and builders in French cybersecurity. Premise: exploring the hacker mindset — curiosity, repurposing, building differently.

Hosts
Florian Amette (F4K)
Running
2024–
Network
Independent
Status
Active
Language
French

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Listen if

French-speaking listeners who want deep interviews with operators and figures from France's cybersecurity community, rather than career briefs or news.

Skip if

Listeners who don't read French, or who want short news segments and purely technical material. Hacker Spirit is portraiture, not a briefing.

Key takeaways

  • The French-language cyber podcast ecosystem is thin; a long-form conversation show with French-speaking guests is valuable by scarcity alone.
  • The 'hacker mindset' angle steers toward motivations and trajectories rather than techniques — what distinguishes it from news shows.
  • Monthly cadence, useful for context and culture, not for keeping up with CVEs.

Notes

Independent production. Guests include Charlie Bromberg (Shutdown). Pair with Darknet Diaries for a similar narrative approach in English, and with NoLimitSecu for French-language news coverage.