Our first Hak.5 LAN Party was a grand success. The three hour Counter-Strike: Source marathon was a blast and I’ve got to give mad props to Rob Fuller for the impromptu live in-game commentary shoutcast stream. Now if you weren’t able to make our pilot fragfest don’t worry, we’ll be doing it again next week. Details:

Game: Counter-Strike: Source
Date: May 20, 2006
Time: 9:00 PM EST (-5:00 GMT)
Server: game.hak5.org
Password: hak5

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In this experimental season finale episode of Hak.5 Darren & Wess wrap up ton of viewer questions covering gmail to SMS, recovering dead hard drives, email from the command prompt, and streaming video in flash. A special guest drops by to cover cracking windows passwords & securing windows. Plus Rob Fuller of mubix.com joins us to talk a bit about Tor and Anonym.OS and an Interview with Travis from RainbowCrack-Online.com.
 
 
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There are a lot of great happenings here at Hak.5 so I’m going to take a few moments to run through the highlights.

T-Shirts by Jinx

This is something that we’ve been very excited about for a long time and the day has finally come. Our new T-shirts are now available at www.jinx.com/hak5/ and they look great! With a big bold Hak.5 logo on the front and “Trust Your Technolust” across the back they really make a statement. The quality is leaps and bounds above those old white tees and they’re less expensive too! We can’t wait to get our first email with a picture of you wearing one. Score one for Hak.5 fans & thanks to Jason over at Jinx for making that happen.

DivX Movies

We’re also happy to announce that we’re now featured on the DivX.com site in their new Video Blogs section. Best part is you can now watch all our episodes either on the page streaming, or download them to disk. This is great news considering that prior to this announcement direct downloads of the xvid version of our back catalog (episodes 1-5) have been offline. So if you’ve missed some of the older episodes and want to catch up you can now grab a copy over at divx.com! Thank go to Ben at DivX.

Bit-Tech and Wired

We’re excited to be recognized in such awesome ‘zines both online and in print. The Wired article is now available online (We’re on page 2). You can also check out the write-up on Bit-Tech.net’s May 2nd article, IPTV Decoded (Page 3). According to Wired we’re “ubergeeks” and Bit-Tech claims we’re “hacking gurus”. As long as we’re not labeled “nerds” we’re A-OK ! Thanks guys!

G4 TechTV: Call for Help

We just recently got back from a trip up to Toronto where we shot three segments on Call for Help. Keep an eye out for Wess & Darren on episodes 370 and 374 this month!

Episode 10
It’s mad crunch time. We lost a week to my vacation at the beginning of the month, a weekend to weather, and a weekend to our trip to Toronto. We’re behind schedule and the editing box is on its last leg. It’ll be getting a reformat as soon as this episode is out the door. That said we’re burning the midnight oil to get this puppy online. Officially ep10 is our season finale which implies that we’ll be taking a break. If we even do take a break and how long said break will be is still up in the air. But some things are for sure. Once ep10 releases our focus will be on a website redesign & DVD release. Stay tuned for announcements on those in the coming month.

And most importantly, thank you everyone who has been so supportive of our dream. In our first year we’ve made some big steps and we’ve very proud to have such an amazing fan base. Whether you’ve been with us since episode 1 or just discovered us I’d like to say thank you for your support. Everything from seeding the torrents to donating to watching the show really means a lot to us.

–Darren