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In this episode Darren tours what’s left of the Hakhouse and shares a emergency shutdown tip. That’s pretty much it. Life hit hard and we’re working at getting back on track. Send us some good mojo. Read more »  Read More →

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Season 3 Episode 10 — Disaster Finale

In this episode Darren tours what’s left of the Hakhouse and shares a emergency shutdown tip. That’s pretty much it. Life …


May 5, 2008 | 4 comments | Read more »

Season 3 Episode 9

PowerGUI, Yahoo Pipes, Helix - Open source forensics toolkit, router passwords, uninterrupted file copying, password strength auditing, firefox tips.


April 5, 2008 | 15 comments | Read more »

Season 3 Episode 8 — Shmoocon Special

Conversations form Shmoocon! RenderMan. Scott Moulton. Mati Aharoni aka Muts. Dan Griffin. David Hulton aka H1kari. Chris Compton. Plus a LOLHAX …


March 7, 2008 | 14 comments | Read more »

Season 3 Episode 7

Reverse engineering. Unlocking the Fon router. Nessus/nmap web frontent. Rock Band guitar fix. Package building. Windows drum kit. Browsing with calculator.


January 29, 2008 | 20 comments | Read more »

Season 3 Episode 6

Cracking WPA using Aircrack-ng, backtrack3 on eeePC. Solarbotics mousebot robot review. Rockbox open source firmware, building frets-on-fire tracks.


December 31, 2007 | 33 comments | Read more »


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Disaster at the HakHouse

I’m making a note here, epic fail. Yesterday I came home from work to find the HakHouse a wet soggy mess. A pipe burst above the kitchen that flooded the entire downstairs and parts of the upstairs. Everything is wet. Everything is soggy. The place wreaks of fail.

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The cause?


Apr 23, 2008 | By Darren | 11 comments

Hak5 production. A story of trial, error and learning at the speed of failure.

Failing isn’t exactly something I look forward to. In fact I tend to avoid it if possible. However I have come to embrace learning from failure rather than fearing it. With innovation comes risk and with risk comes falling on your face. And after three years of podcasting I nearly consider myself a face-planting expert.

As the third season of Hak5 comes to an end and we begin pre-production on the fourth I turn my attention to once again attempting to streamline the production. With every new season comes new challenges and it becomes ever more apparent that the show revolves around the (seemingly rotating) cast and their lives, not the other way around.

This makes it ever more important to


Apr 16, 2008 | By Darren | 2 comments