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Video Games! Independent, homebrew, hacked or open source. We love offbeat games.

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It takes one to know one, and we huge geeks. If it doesn’t fit in another category look here.

Hack

From man-in-the-middle attacks to GPU accelerated password cracking. We love hacks.

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Information Technology. Network Administrators. Code Monkeys. The “Company Computer Guy”

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Warranties be damned! Flashing, unlocking, unbrick, modifying and otherwise “making it better”

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Hak5 5 year anniversary party
July 25, 2010 – 12:13 am | No Comment

Its our Hak5th Birthday and you’re all invited!

Join us to celebrate 5 years of technolust at the Hotsy Totsy Club — an Albany institution since 1939 — from 7:00 PM on Saturday, August 14th for drinks, pool, shuffleboard and a live performance from nerdcore sensation Eighty of Dual Core!

601 San Pablo Ave
Albany, CA 94706

http://www.hotsytotsyclub.com/
http://www.dualcoremusic.com/

21+. No cover. Street parking. 7 blocks from the El Cerrito BART Plaza. WiFi. Taco’s Autlense Taco Truck parked in lot.

If you’re on Facebook please become a fan and RSVP. Otherwise please leave a comment if you plan to be joining us.

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Episode Delay
June 30, 2010 – 5:22 pm | 6 Comments

Sorry for the short delay in the todays episode, but 720 is encoding now and will be posted soon.

Revision3′s 5 Year Anniversary Party!
June 22, 2010 – 12:21 pm | No Comment

Revision3 is celebrating its 5 Year Anniversary and we want YOU to join us in San Francisco with the best party we could put together.
We’ve got Brian Brushwood of Scam School and Alex Koll of …

HakShop Moving. Temporary Shipping Delay
April 15, 2010 – 12:05 am | 2 Comments

As of 4-15-2010 the HakShop is moving from Williamsburg, VA to Waynesville, MO. All orders placed on or before April 14 have been shipped. Orders can continue. Shipments will resume on or before April 28. …

Auctions for Fuel
April 5, 2010 – 5:54 pm | One Comment
Auctions for Fuel

If you’ve been following the show recently you know I’m taking off on an epic journey West-bound zig-zagging across North America. It’s a project I’ve dubbed Hack Across America.
Wheels roll May 2nd. In preparation …

Hak5.org now iPad friendly with youtube player
April 5, 2010 – 12:46 pm | 10 Comments
Hak5.org now iPad friendly with youtube player

Our iPad crazy webmaster Jason (and camera guy Paul) are testing out video playback compatibility on the site using the YouTube player. [Editors note: of course if the iPad would just play flash this wouldn’t …

Cave Story
January 22, 2010 – 10:44 pm | 4 Comments
Cave Story

Cave Story, originally released in 2004, is concrete proof that a single talented individual can create a solid, engaging feature length game.
It seems like everyone that even remotely follows the independent computer gaming scene has …

Boot Google’s Chromium OS live from USB
December 16, 2009 – 6:47 pm | 6 Comments
Boot Google’s Chromium OS live from USB

While still early in it’s development stages, Google’s upcoming Chrome OS is a neat OS to play with — especially on a netbook. While the Virtual Machine images floating around are nice for a glimpse, …

Play Doom on the hacked Zipit Z2
December 16, 2009 – 6:44 pm | 5 Comments
Play Doom on the hacked Zipit Z2

It was only a matter of time before we put Doom on The Zipit Z2. The recently unlocked linux-based wireless device is a prime candidate for fragging, what with it’s QVGA color display, WiFi and …

Hacking the Motorola Droid: Root Access!
December 16, 2009 – 6:10 pm | 12 Comments
Hacking the Motorola Droid: Root Access!

As expected the Motorola Droid has been rooted. That is to say there’s a hack that’ll unlock SU, or super user privileges on the phone. The hack is essentially su bundled in an unsigned update …