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2250 Kilometer round trip

I’ve just returned from a trip to Toronto and already I’m missing the T.O. Thankfully I drove back with a trunk full of Canada’s finest Hops and Barley. I did two segments on Call for Help, episodes 340 and 344 which will air March 10th and 23rd respectively, and one live episode of The War Room with Jenn Cutter.

So back in the states and ready for action, Wess, Alli and I are shooting the last segments of Hak.5 episode 8. We hope you’ll join us for the regular online release party on March 5th in #hak5 on irc.techphile.ca. We’re working on setting up a LAN (Or would that be WAN?) party & VOIP madness that night. I’ll keep you posted on game, servers, etc when I get the deets so prepare for a good old fashion Hak.5 fragfest.

As for the forums… FileFarmer has still not responded and I think it may be time to fold our cards. I’m not giving up on retrieving our database but at this point I feel the community has been disrupted for too long and if starting from scratch is what we have to do, we’ll just have to bite the bullet and do it. On that note if you’ve got forum software suggestions other than phpBB I’d love to hear them.

Take care all,
–Darren

Forums update

After many many emails, support tickets, and voicemails the ISP hosting our Forums, Web Chat, and direct download links for episodes 1 - 5.5 have contacted us. They are aware of the problem (Finally, it only took over a week of bugging them) however they aren’t sure where the problem stems. They have not been helpful at all. At this time I’m just looking forward to getting access to our server so that I can download our PHPBB database and move it to another server. Libsyn has done a great job of hosting our direct downloads and I will be moving episodes 1 - 5.5 there.

FileFarmer, the ISP in question, has not given me an ETA on the server being back up. They claim they’ve got green lights on all of their servers. If you read the forums over at filefarmer.com you’ll see that we’re not the only ones having problems with their service.

I’ve got to say up until lately their service has been great. They were willing to work with our enormous bandwidth requirements and were generally responsive. That level of support has obviously changed. I’ll continue to hound them about the server. If you’d like to give them a little nudge, their email address is filefarmer@gmail.com

I do not want to use the backup copy of the forums DB I have locally since its outdated. Several posts and user accounts would be lost if I were to restore from this backup on another server.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope you understand as we work through this bump.

–Darren

Happy Valentines Day from Hak.5

It’s the 14th of February and that can only mean one thing. Time for Hak.5’s valentines special!
 
 
 
 
 
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Forums status

We are aware that our forums and web chat are down. Both of those are hosted on our Hak5.tv domain. I have contacted the ISP and that server should be up ASAP. Until then we apologize for the inconvenience.

Keep trusting that technolust,

–Darren

Season 1 Episode 7

In this episode of Hak.5 the gang hacks the CVS disposable digital camera, secure VNC traffic using SSH tunneling, take viewer questions and even check out some video submissions. Plus some special announcements and more commercials worth watching. Guest intro by Kevin Mitnick and music by Ashley Witt.
 
 
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Ep 7 pre-post

We hope everyone is as excited about the imminent release as we are! We’ll be hanging out in #hak5 on irc.techphile.ca as always for a killer release party. Oh, and supposedly there’s something else happening on the 5th involving pig skin… whatever

–Darren

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