Kicking off Hak5′s Hack Across America
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The New iPad – Shannon’s Review
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Howdy! So I bought a new iPad about a month ago when they first came out, and I figured it was time for me to review it. Better late than never, eh?
I decided to buy the 4G Verizon LTE 32GB one in Black. It was about $750 before taxes (and before I sold my old one on eBay, ha!).
I upgraded from the first generation iPad, which I bought about 2 years ago.
SF Bay Area Party – Celebrate Season 11 Episode 11!!!!1111
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Thursday, May 3rd at 8:00 PM
Join us for our Season 11 episode 11 party at the Baltic Pub in Point Richmond, CA! There won’t be another binary episode number of Hak5 until Season 100 in 2057!!
All ages welcome. Special nerdcore performance by Dale Chase!
The Baltic Pub, 135 Park Pl Richmond, CA 94801.
CES 2012 and Revision3 Vegas Meetup!
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We’re back at CES 2012 for another year of awesome tech and new gadgets. What do you want to see? We’ll be covering the show floor from Monday through Friday to being you the most up to date content on what you like most. Be on the lookout for TONS of segments, which will be airing at the Revision3 CES 2012 stream.
Thank You For An Awesome 2011!
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This past year was full of surprises, and many of the accomplishments we made are because of you, our viewers! February 15th will mark my first year living in the Bay Area, working fulltime with Hak5. Do I regret the move? Not one bit!
Behind Hak5
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I enjoy watching Hak5 and HakTip, as much as the next geek. However, I am also lucky enough to be able to call the Hak crew my close friends. Seeing them make their shows, rather than just watching the end product, is both fun and inspiring. I wanted to share some of that world with you guys.
Look at the top of this page. You see the characters up there in the banner? One of them is Paul Tobias. He shoots and edits the shows. You will see him lurking around occasionally, but you dont get to see how produces Hak5 and HakTip, almost singlehandedly.
I figured that I would point my camera him for a few minutes and try to capture how he does his work.
Pay particular attention to how much he is able to shoot and accomplish, with only a crew of one, and for very little money. Notice the VESA monitor arms used for camera mounts, the iPad teleprompter, and little screens under cameras so that Darren and Shannon can try and take care of their own shot framing.
Enjoy paying attention to the man behind the curtain.
Get Ready for Defcon 2011
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Hak5 is packed and ready for Def Con 2011! This year, Darren, Paul, and I will be in Las Vegas all weekend- from Wednesday night through Sunday- compiling a delightful Hak5 episode for you to enjoy. We hope to get some good coverage and photos, so show off your Hak5 tshirt! If you see us, make sure to stop by and say hello!
San Diego Comic Con 2011
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If you’ve ever been to Comic Con, you’ll probably already know exactly what I’m about to say. WHOA! Crazy! This year, 2011, marked my very first Comic Con. I’ve been to many anime conventions, tech expos, and geek cons in the past, but nothing compares to the San Diego Comic Con. If you haven’t been to it yet, this convention that takes place in San Diego every summer, brings together the best in comics, sci-fi, fantasy, games, anime, tv, and movies. This year was quoted at about 125,000 attendees. The con-goers were able to meet their favorite actors and artists, find rare collectibles on the show floor, dress up in cosplay, and watch some great panels on their favorite topics.
E3 Expo Coverage
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Guess who is at E3 today and tomorrow? Mr. Darren Kitchen and Mr. Paul Tobias! While I’m back in the Bay Area holding down the fort and taking care of the HakShop, Darren and Paul are covering E3 from the show floor. (more…)
Maker Faire 2011
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Ahh, Maker Faire, I think I’m in love. You made me feel like a child again. I was able to solder my own POV board, dance with an R2-D2, play with lights and electricity, pig out on fair food, and check out all sorts of DIY goodies.
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Season 9 Party
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Join the Hak5 crew as we celebrate our Bay Area arrival and the beginning of season 9!
LIVE PERFORMANCES from Nerdcore sensations Dual Core and Dale Chase
Saturday April 2nd at 7:00pm
The Hotsy Totsy Club
601 San Pablo Ave
Albany, CA 94706
Ring in the ninth season with cocktails, nerdcore and technolust!
21 and up. Bring your friends
Darren on Discovery: Hackers Versus Cyber Criminals
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Darren Kitchen, hacker and host of tech show Hak5, says why hacking isn’t the same thing as cyber crime. Jorge Ribas sits down with him to find out the difference.
Read on to watch the video.
Virginia Tech Live Show
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Hak5 will be LIVE at Virginia Tech this Saturday, November 7th. Join us at 7:00 PM for the best of networking, hacking and homebrew and Q&A. We’ll be in Torgersen 2150 on the Virginia Tech campus in Blackburg, VA. Then later at 9:00 we’ll be for the first time experiencing Bar Golf, a VT tradition that we would love to see you at. So lock down your firewalls and get ready for some Technolust as Hak5 begins the campus invasion. See you there!
Hak5 Labs
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Today I am pleased to announce Hak5 Labs, an effort to open source the show. Over the next few weeks we will be holding Hak5 Labs meetings with the goal of crowdsourcing content, open development of large projects and group discussions on every aspect of Hak5 the show and the community.
The first meeting will be held on Monday, September 28th at 8:00 PM Eastern Time (-5 GMT) in our Dimdim meeting room.
We’ll be broadcasting live via Dimdim, sharing segment ideas, answering questions and developing killer new projects.
We encourage you to join us for this first of many future Hak5 Lab events.
See you there!
See this post on the forums.
Happy 4th Birthday Hak5
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Has it really been 4 years? It seems like just yesterday I was pondering what it would take to put together a podcast. Would the built in mic on my mini-DV cam suffice, or should I spend some money on a camera with a mic-in jack and some lavs. I don’t want to spend a lot though, it is just a podcast ya know?
Little did I know… Four years, tens of thousands in equipment, two mortgages, 10 terabytes of footage and 10 or so million downloads later Hak5 is kickin’ stronger than ever — doing what we love when we’re not slaving 9-5.
This is a thank you to the fans and freaks who’ve supported us over the years. To everyone who has shook our hand at a hacker con, tipped a frosty one with us, bought a t-shirt, emailed, posted in the forums, retweeted and downloaded.
And lets not forget everyone who’s sailed the USS Technolust, past and present. You are all insane for sacrificing your weekends to research, write and perform into the wee hours of the night.
And Revision3, you’ve made us a better podcast. We’ve done more shows in the past year than the three before it combined. What a thrill teaming up with the 1st name in Internet television.
So to everyone, stay cool. Stay subscribed, and stay tuned for a nerdcore montage next week followed by the premiere of Season 6 on August 19th.
And if you’re in the area and want to meetup on August 15th at Busch Gardens Williamsburg we’d love to have ya. Check out the details.
Here’s to four more fantastic years of Hak5!
–Darren
HakShop back online
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After nearly a week of downtime the HakShop is back online. Hooray!
On a personal note, I’m done playing with e-commerce packages for a while. Everything I’ve played with from ZenCart to Prestacart to Megento and many many more are all fine pieces of software with just one shortcoming or another.
The current store is the result of good ol’ fashioned wordpress, html, css and a little bit of elbow grease. And until we get a dozen more items in, I’m fine with it.
Thanks for your patience, and your continued support!
HakShop will BRB
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Recent server config changes seem to have broken our already picky WordPress based e-commerce plugin, Shopp. After spending quite some time trying to get it to work with the new configuration it was time to move on — which I was cool with since Shopp had failed me on a few issues before.
So yesterday I was up until 6am putting together the sweet new HakShop based on Prestashop. I love how modern this package is. The back-end is really sweet too. Not too complicated but powerful enough to do what’s really important. Read: Make sure we don’t sell more than we have and charge the proper shipping rate for your country.
You can see what I’m talking about here, but don’t check out — you won’t receive your goodies.
Anyway, lesson learned here is this (more…)
White Box Server Contest
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Spec out your ultimate $2000 white box server for an opportunity to win awesome swag from the hakshop including the last Hak5 shot-glass. Detail the parts and why you picked ‘em here and we’ll pick a winner based on performance, value and creativity!
Make your entries in the 5×19 release thread.
Photoshop Contest
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This week we’re doing a photoshop contest. The most creative caption or creation with this image wins cool swag from the hakshop.
Your creation should be submitted to the forums contest gallery.
Your LAN
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Think you’ve got a hardcore LAN? Show us! Our latest contest is all about mapping your *home* network.
Map your network using an online diagram application like Gliffy, Dia on Linux or jNetMap — a cross-platform network mapping app developed by Hak5 fan Rakudave!
Then submit your entries as an image and description over in the new Hak5 forums Contest Submission gallery.
Entries will be judges on network creativity. Feel free to be as detailed as you’d like. No business or university networks please. If you have a site to site VPN between home and office that’s cool but no need to map past the initial link.
Entries are due by Friday May 29th. The winning network will be featured on episode 516. The winner will receive some cozy Hak5 gear from the HakShop.
HakHouse Network as mapped by jNetMap
HakShop open for beta testing….err…purchases
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As you all know I’ve been struggling with a few e-commerce platforms. Eventually I settled on the Shopp plugin for WordPress. I really like how simple the system is. It’s just what I need (inventory management, weight rate shipping) and not what I don’t. Once I got past the first bug or two I really warmed up to it.
A big thanks to everyone who has offered their help setting this up and making recommendations. I still have zen-cart and oscommerce in the back of my mind if this doesn’t work out — but for now I’m giving this a go.
I’ve spent a few days getting intimately familiar with the code and hacking together the templates. I really like how well it integrates with the site. It’s not finished by any stretch of the imagination but I believe the core functionality is there.
I’m looking for feedback on the store. If you can offer any comments on usability, features, or otherwise please sound off in the comments. I’ll be continuing to add new stuff (user gallery, specifications, more products) as time goes on.
If all goes well over the next few days I’ll be sure to make a much better announcement for our grand opening. In the mean time, consider the HakShop open for beta testing.
www.hak5.org/hakshop (Please report any bug to darren@hak5.org)
The HakShop won’t be making its debut today :(
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After a frustrating day fighting with e-commerce code I must forfeit. I really wanted to have this online today but it doesn’t look like it’ll happen. If you’re reading this post after watching episode 512, I’m sorry. Check back in a day or two. Maybe then this code and mysql will start to behave.
–Darren
Code Challenge
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The first Code Challenge for Hak5 Season 5 — the Gmail Procrastination Badge. What started as a tongue in cheek comment on twitter about needing to declare email bankruptcy lead to proof of concept Gmail Unread Badge code.
The code
$mbox = imap_open ("{imap.googlemail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX",
"gmailusername", "gmailpassword", OP_READONLY)
or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
$check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
Monkey Contest
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Step 1: Download Monkey Art
Step 2: Get Creative
Step 3: Publish Monkey Wallpaper
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Winner will receive Hak5 swag as well as a do-it-yourself sock monkey kit curtesy of SockMonkey.net!
February is the month of Zombies. Left4Dead and Zombie Panic Source
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February is the month of Zombies here at Hak5. We’re playing Left4Dead (l4d.hak5.org) and Zombie Panic Source (zp.hak5.org) from now until the official show down on Saturday, February 28th.
We expect to start a Left4Dead campaign around 3:00 PM Eastern. Use the Tournament Signup form to enroll for this event and be sure to give us your Steam name so we can contact you. We’ll randomly choose four players to hack and slash with in a Left4Dead campaign. Depending on how things go we may do multiple campaigns so more players can rotate in.
If the Left4Dead server is full and you still want to get your Zombie bashing fun in join the Zombie Panic Source server. We’ve been hearing good things about this free mod so give it a download.
Overall best gamer for the party on Saturday, February 28th will be rewarded with a kickass Hak5 sticker pack including a cast signed stick of RAM. How Bad-ass!? So be sure to sign up so we can contact you if necessary.
And if you haven’t already go ahead and join the Hak5 Steam Group. See you in game.
Hak5′s CES Adventure: Day One Pow-wow
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The first day of CES was brought with many challenges. This being our first ever CES we’re a little baffled by Las Vegas architecture and geometry, which seems to have been developed on a higher plane of existence then ported to Earth in an attempt to bewilder mortals.
Regardless, we’re here in Vegas doing our thing. The five of us spent the day splitting up and covering approximately 7% of the conference floor. Things are big and things are shiny. There are never to be mass market pie-in-the-sky prototypes and there are really pretty gidgets far beyond our meager hacker budgets.
The highlight of the day, aside from finally meeting face-to-face with the Revision3 kr3w, was CES adjunct Showstoppers – a small (in comparison) press event featuring neato-new-technology peppered with the obligatory are-you-fraking-kidding-me.
We* ended the night with a Day One Pow Wow. I figured it would be fun to share with you our initial thoughts on the show, our expectations and lessons learned.
*Actually everyone else is asleep while I’m up editing down HD footage to an “uploadable” format. As it turns out bandwidth is hard to come by here. I’m paying $12 for 384k! (Don’t even start Aussies).
P.S. One more lesson learned: Turn on the LED lamp when shooting wide in front of a white table using auto exposure. Yeah, my fault. I’ll ride the Fail Bus home Sunday.
—Darren