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Happy 4th Birthday Hak5

Submitted by Darren on August 5, 2009 – 8:47 pm15 Comments

Has it really been 4 years? It seems like just yesterday I was pondering what it would take to put together a podcast. Would the built in mic on my mini-DV cam suffice, or should I spend some money on a camera with a mic-in jack and some lavs. I don’t want to spend a lot though, it is just a podcast ya know?

Little did I know… Four years, tens of thousands in equipment, two mortgages, 10 terabytes of footage and 10 or so million downloads later Hak5 is kickin’ stronger than ever — doing what we love when we’re not slaving 9-5.

This is a thank you to the fans and freaks who’ve supported us over the years. To everyone who has shook our hand at a hacker con, tipped a frosty one with us, bought a t-shirt, emailed, posted in the forums, retweeted and downloaded.

And lets not forget everyone who’s sailed the USS Technolust, past and present. You are all insane for sacrificing your weekends to research, write and perform into the wee hours of the night.

And Revision3, you’ve made us a better podcast. We’ve done more shows in the past year than the three before it combined. What a thrill teaming up with the 1st name in Internet television.

So to everyone, stay cool. Stay subscribed, and stay tuned for a nerdcore montage next week followed by the premiere of Season 6 on August 19th.

And if you’re in the area and want to meetup on August 15th at Busch Gardens Williamsburg we’d love to have ya. Check out the details.

Here’s to four more fantastic years of Hak5!

–Darren

15 Comments »

  • Jason says:

    Happy 4th Birthday Hak5!

  • nicatronTg says:

    Happy Birthday Hak5, Trust your Technolust!

  • UrbanXposure says:

    Happy birthday Hak5
    LOVE the show!!

    Trust you Technolust =]

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  • Jzman says:

    I Have been watching since Jan of 06. Cant believe it has gone by this fast. I cant wait for season 6 to start. Enjoy bush gardens and Happy Birthday Hak5 :)

  • Nescire says:

    Happy Birthday Hak5! Alles gute zum Geburtstag Hak5!
    Greetings from Germany your show rocks all over the world.
    I would love to meet you guys in Bushgarden but it’s just a bit to far, but I hope to see some great pics and videos.
    Instead I will take my pineapple and show him europeans biggest gaming Convention.
    I hope I can watch your show also the next 4 years. Rock on!
    So far
    Nescire

  • randy says:

    Happy Birthday hak5!

    I’ve been watching for a year and during that year i have actually gone back and watched all the old episodes because i enjoyed the show so much. Keep up the good work!

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  • Ethan Enigma says:

    your address on topsail is 2001 New River Inlet Rd..maybe????

  • Jason K says:

    #!/usr/bin/comment

    Congratulations. I’ve only recently discovered your show (about 2 weeks ago), and I’m hooked on it, and have been recommending it. I’m going to be working my way through back episodes for a while.

  • I really was hacked. The hackers said they would restore everything as long as I stopped promoting Linux. I told them I would stop. They said they would be back to delete the blog if I didn’t.

    The hackers also gained FTP access and changed the content on my website.

    If you don’t believe me, I have many people who I constantly badgered through IRC to help me restore everything .

    Edit: I just logged into the Dashboard and I got a JS prompt that read “We are watching you Thomas ~ The Entity”

    http://mpscripts.dunsoft.org/blog/hacked/#comments

  • Pedja.J says:

    Greetings from SERBIA !!! Happy 4th Birthday Hak5 :)

  • Ethan Hunt says:

    Damn Darren, you brought a tear in my eye and forced a flashback of you and Wess sitting on the couch all that time ago talking about whether the speed at which you war-drive affects the signal strength… … Aaaaah, memories :)

    Happy Birthday!

  • PajtimiO says:

    Happy Birthday from Kosovo HAK5

  • Brad says:

    Happy 4th Birthday Hak5!

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