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Today is the last day to enter to win the Hak5 Prize Bundle over at Raffstar. Don’t miss out!

Prize Includes:

• Autographed copy of Superman issue #648 (which features Hak5)
• Hak5 stickers. buttons, shot glasses
• Music from the show by Pronobozo
• Jinx.com gift certificate for a Hak5 t-shirt

Get your ticket!

Hak5 Halloween LAN Party

Don’t forget about tonight’s Hak5 Halloween LAN Parties! Join us in CS:S, TF2, BF2, and UT99 and add Hak5Halloween to your steam friends for a chance to randomly win cool Hak5 swag including stickers, shot glasses, buttons, and a few Pronobozo CDs. All the details are at hak5halloween.squarespace.com thanks to your LAN Party admin Joeeigel.

Team Fortress 2 LAN Party, Day-Con, and Warsow!

We’re playing Team Fortress 2 all day today at game.hak5.org. Be sure to check out the Hak5 Steam Group for all the latest on LAN Party goodness. Also, we will not be streaming live today as previously planned. Episode 407 was shot at Toorcon last weekend and episode 408 will be shot at Day-Con next weekend. If you’re going to be in the Dayton area check out the con or follow us on Twitter.

Next LAN Party will be on October 18th. We will be playing the open source game Warsow! Party for all platforms, w00t!

Web Update, LAN Party and Live Streaming

I’ve gone ahead and made a few tweaks to the homepage and episode pages that looks nice and flows a bit better. Of course I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on the site and what you’d like to see.

As you may know the upcoming Saturday, September 20th will be our first LAN Party of the season. We’ll be playing counter-strike: source at game.hak5.org throughout the day. We’ll also be live streaming the setcam as we shoot episodes 405 and 406 that day.

Thanks for the great feedback so far on the show. Now we want to hear what you think we could do better throughout the site / community!

Friday’s Hak5 Live available

Thanks to everyone who tuned in, posted questions and called in last night. As always we had a great time. It was a lot of fun interacting with the community like this. We’ll totally have to do it again sometime. If you missed the live broadcast you can view the recording on this post or over at ustream. Read more

Hak5 joins Revision3

San Francisco, CA – August 14, 2008 – Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation, today announced that it is bringing Hak5, a home-grown hit series fusing underground culture and mainstream IT, to its weekly lineup of pop culture shows. Covering everything from network security, open source software and forensics, to Do It Yourself projects and the homebrew scene, new episodes of Hak5 will launch September 8th on Revision3 at www.revision3.com/hak5.

“Back when we launched Tekzilla, a few fans accused us of ripping off Hak5’s brick-encrusted set. The correlation was spurious, but rather than alienate the industry’s top hackers, we decided it would be better to team up with Hak5 instead,” said Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3. Read more

Live Show Friday Night

We’re broadcasting live this Friday, August 15, at 9:00 PM Eastern. Tune in here at hak5.org and join the cast for a few cocktails and an open Skype line. We’ll be taking your calls and answering questions about “the big news”

Pre-Season4 Website Updates

Just a heads up about some upcoming website updates in preparation for the upcoming season premiere (August 5th as usual). We’ve changed the permalink structure of the site meaning that rather than having ugly urls like hak5.org/archives/237 we now have hak5.org/episodes/season-3-episode-9. Isn’t that beautiful? mod_rewrite is taking care of any prior bookmarks you may have, everything is redirecting correctly from the old structure.

We’ll be uploading a ton of archive material over the next few weeks so if you’re subscribed to the site-wide RSS feed you’ll likely get flooded with pages.

This will not impact the xvid, mp4, or wmv feeds.

We’ll have an update on the HakHouse progress soon. The short version is we’ve moved back into the HakHouse but the first flood is still under construction meaning we don’t have a kitchen, living room, or studio.

Cheers,
Darren

Disaster at the HakHouse

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.

The cause? Read more

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

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

Cocktails with Hak5, live this Saturday night

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!

Why hack when you could save monkeys?

Save the monkey, save the world.

Farewell Stage6

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

Post Shmoocon thoughts

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

Hak5Live from Shmoocon - Podcasters Meetup

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

Site updates in progress

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!

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