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Disaster at the HakHouse

April 23, 2008

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

April 16, 2008

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 Read more

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Cocktails with Hak5, live this Saturday night

April 10, 2008

This Saturday night we’ll be hosting an informal live event we’re calling “Cocktails with Hak5″. We will be taking calls via skype so if you have a webcam and want to join us that would be awesome. Join us at Hak5.org all night starting at 10.

Cheers!

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Season 3 Episode 9

April 5, 2008

In this episode Matt uses PowerGUI to command the new Windows PowerShell, Chris Gerling demonstrates Helix, an open source forensics toolkit and Darren builds a simple web mashup using Yahoo Pipes. Plus haksnacks including router passwords, uninterrupted file copying, password strength auditing, and Firefox keyword shortcuts.

Oh yeah and some bloopers. A lot of bloopers. Actually, pretty much most of the episode is one ongoing blooper. We’re kicking it oldschool Hak5 style. Call it senioritis if you will :).
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Why hack when you could save monkeys?

April 1, 2008

Save the monkey, save the world.

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