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Season 2 Episode 9 — Shmoocon Special

April 7, 2007


In this special episode of Hak5 the crew heads to Washington DC for ShmooCon, the only annual security conference with complementary foam balls. We start by talk to Bruce Potter, one of the conferences organizers, about all things Shmoo. We also speak to Billy Hoffman about Jikto, JavaScript and XSS. Eoin Miller and Adair Collins tell us all about Cachedump and the dangers of cached domain credentials. Ken Caruso gives us a tour of the Shmoocon NOC and we see how network security is done at a hacker con. Jordan and Wes give us the details on the Hack or Halo competition while Paul tries his luck with the sniper rifle. Scott Moulton talks to us about recovering dead hard drives and Babak tells us about lock picking and the TOOOL organization. We even run into some Hak5 fans, Ryan and David, who built a rockin’ Wii duck hunt box at the Hacker Arcade. Plus all of the usual fixings including the details on this months trivia, poll, LAN party, and a special web 1.0 contest sure to bring back the blink tag.

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Written by Darren · Filed Under Episodes 

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23 Responses to “Season 2 Episode 9 — Shmoocon Special”

  1. Wangzero on April 7th, 2007 10:19 pm

    Huzzah!!!

  2. Emil Enevoldsen on April 7th, 2007 10:22 pm

    Smooth.

  3. Impulse on April 7th, 2007 11:28 pm

    sweet been waiting for this,clicked on the link 4 times comes up with page cannot be displayed

  4. Somken on April 8th, 2007 2:06 am

    Thanks!!!

  5. ferrari on April 8th, 2007 2:59 am

    Thanks and hello from Croatia!

  6. Zalzer on April 8th, 2007 3:04 am

    Yet another awesome episode of Hak.5

  7. Tim on April 8th, 2007 6:15 am

    Isn’t Wess looking more and more like Bono from U2 lately? The haircut, the glasses. Soon he’ll be wearing all black.

  8. l337virus on April 8th, 2007 9:23 am

    the show x09 was awsome ! it was worth the wait

  9. Bercik on April 8th, 2007 9:51 am

    Another great episode.
    Longer eps are much better :)

    Please start encoding show with x264.

  10. Vash on April 8th, 2007 12:27 pm

    Awesome. Just plain awesome.

  11. Addicted on April 9th, 2007 3:39 am

    thanks for this

  12. gd on April 9th, 2007 4:09 am

    Good to see you crazy guys at Shmoocon. Thanks for the Hak5 shirt …

  13. Ken C. on April 9th, 2007 11:29 am

    Thanks for the podcast and covering Shmoocon Labs, looking forward to seeing you next year.

  14. syn-ack on April 9th, 2007 5:38 pm

    Very Nice…yes.

  15. asdfdfs on April 9th, 2007 6:40 pm

    that was an incredibly boring episode

  16. Henaro on April 9th, 2007 8:13 pm

    Speaking of XSS:

    http://hak5.podzinger.com/results.jsp?col=en-all-pod-ep&s=PZSID_videopods_videopod0_3_7_0003&s=PZSID_pods_pod3_3_1_0007&sname=Hak.5&q=%3Cscript%3Ealert(1);%3C/script%3E

  17. Vash on April 10th, 2007 3:32 pm

    Boring? Whatever dude, I thought the entire Java script thing was informative and I definately payed attention to that one. And Wess hitting Darren made me laugh, although you guys both rule!

  18. termi on April 11th, 2007 8:20 am

    awww, GE:S again :)

    when can dystopia
    ( http://www.dystopia-game.com ; its another team based hl2 mod) be the game of the month, id be down for that for sure

    full disclosure: i helped make the thing so im a little biased

  19. Baddox on April 11th, 2007 1:18 pm

    Good episode, great content, though the audio was tough to bear, and the in-between scenes in the park, etc. could use a little more rehearsal. Does the cameraperson always wear closed-ear headphones to check the audio? I can’t believe I would ever say this, but I would like to see h.264/X264 instead of/in addition to divx. I’ve been a divx/xvid fanboy for a long time, but I’m finally warming up to 264’s superior quality:bitrate ratio.

  20. Administrator on April 11th, 2007 3:16 pm

    @Baddox,

    there was and hasn’t been any rehearsal for a while now. all of the stuff at the park and around the house was done in one take, with the exception of the end bit on the sofa since wess and i were joking around.

    as for h.264, the ipod feed IS h.264. starting with 3×01 we’ll be significantly upping the bitrate on that feed in order to make it look better on the appletv.

    as for the divx looking sub-par, thats what happens when you encode nearly 90 minutes of video and try to make it under 400mb. i think the bitrate was somewhere in the 500’s. yikes. i normally shoot for 800-900.

    hope that helps, glad you liked the show.

  21. Robby on April 14th, 2007 5:26 am

    Nice epp, rather long but that can be bared with for your special. Had some good content. I much liked how it was a bit more advance this time like you used to have it back in season 1 cause lately its kinda been n00bified.

    Also while your away on your 2 week break, maybe we can have a user content hak5. Were us the users can upload our own segments and then merge them to create an epp..

    cause i would like to show off a few things, it could be fun.

  22. BiGBuX on April 14th, 2007 8:14 am

    need to give use high deffinition on you guys great ep

  23. Larrydotcom on April 15th, 2007 6:25 pm

    There better have been some shoutouts to the PaulDotCom crew… :-)

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