Stage6, a high quality streaming video platform and social network, died on February 28, 2008. It was in beta and lived in San Diego, CA.

The cause was funding, employee Tom, aka Spinner said.

Born in 2006 by parent DivX, Inc. Stage6 spent most of its life differentiating itself from similar video sharing sites like YouTube. Stage6 accepted DivX or Xvid files up to 1080p, equivalent to BluRay.

In July 2007 DivX announced Read more

After nearly 40 hours of published content we finally boarded the failbus. In the rush to setup the show was recorded without audio. So in the spirit of Hak5 live the editor got drunk and subtitled nearly 4 minutes of the episode in lolspeak. If you’re not a fan of ICHC you probably won’t find this funny. Otherwise grab a cocktail and enjoy this 24 MB masterpiece. Read more

Shmoocon rocked! The con was well organized, entertaining and often brainborkingly insightful. We were fortunate enough to interview some amazing hackers for the show this year too. It was also great to meet so many cool Hak5 fans! Hell yeah! Of course with any con comes crazyness so here are a few of my observations.

The Shmoocon staff really nailed Read more

I was going to post some spiel warning you that this episode is another infamous Hak5Live train wreck but then I realized, thats what Hak5Live IS. And once I got over that I realized that for what it is the show is really enjoyable. So aside from a couple of hiccups and uncensored f-bombs I give you Hak5Live009 in its raw and uncut glory.

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Hak5 will be broadcasting live from the Podcasters Meetup at Shmoocon this Friday, February 15th at 9:00 PM EST.

We’ll be kicking off with event with shmoo commentary, a rotating panel of special guests and some awesome give aways including SSL certs courtesy of GoDaddy, some FON routers for your hacking enjoyment, Hak5 swag and more. One lucky attendee of the Podcasters Meetup will even be heading home with an ASUS eee PC!

Tune in to Hak5.org Friday night for the live stream or if you’re in the DC area come down and meetup with SploitCast, Pauldotcom, Hak.5, Secthis and many more of your favorite shows and hosts. Read more

dhp1080 has put together an awesome database using chirpy for your IRC quoting pleasure. These are some of my favorites. So what are yours?

Moonlit and Famicoman have started a collaborative effort to archive and catalog the increasingly hard to find episodes of defunct IPTV shows. Join the preservation effort or browse the catalog thus far. This stuff is way too awesome to let erode on the net.

Some of my favorites include The Packet Sniffers, Infonomicon, From The Shadows, and of course Broken Floppy. What’s your favorite IPTV show from yesteryear?
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Hang in there, we’re giving Hak5.org a much needed makeover. Things might get a little wonky for a bit!

If you run into anything broken please report it to Darren or comment here. Thanks!