Hak5 - Trust Your Technolust

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Hak5 is a pretty awesome video-podcast which covers various technology and hacking subjects each week, bringing something interesting to the table with every episode. Personally, I only started watching it recently as I have the Hak5 application on my Android, but the show actually dates back fairly far and has been featured in various magazines and websites since it's launch. They often go over some interesting hacks and tools on both Windows and Linux (and occasionally Mac), giving great, short guides on using Backtrack and other cool stuff. This morning I watched Darren use MSPAINT to launch a command shell, which was pretty damn cool.

Anyway, does anyone else watch Hak5?

Sem

I watch it from time to time. It's what got me turned onto Armitage

Dfg

I watch it, but the recent episodes didn't work.

RemadE

I love them :thumbsup: frequently watch them at University to pass an hour or so.

TheWitchDoctor

Thanks for the tip trx I'll download a couple next time I'm on some public wifi.

Slartibartfast

I watch this show regularly. It's a good show.

Darren's weird nerd-hipster language annoys me sometimes: "pop a box", "a little command kung-fu action".
The girl plays on the 'I'm a dumb ditzy girl' thing too obviously with the weird noises and expressions she makes.

LSA King

I watched it just because I was looking for tech podcasts when I first discovered "Podcasting" a year ago lol. Darin is the fucking shit and now he also hosts Mondays or Fridays weekly on TnT. Guy is a genius and I completely underestimated the show when I first started, but I learn shit every day and always walk away feeling like a peon which is ironic when you consider how low I thought of the show originally.

duuude

I've never watched it, I'll have to check it out and try to check out that app on my phone as well.

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Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland wrote: »

The bit about hping3 was pretty interesting; I've been trying to build a tool like that for a while

Can you remember which episode Hping3 was in? I've used that tool a few times for DoS attacking various network machines but a little more information on it from the Hak5 people would be appreciated

RaggedOldMan

Hak5 is a pretty cool show! I used to watch it a lot but when my ISP cut off my internet for a while I stopped watching it and never got back into it again. Lots of good Backtrack information!

Unknown

^ That's pretty much all I watch it for as well. The Backtrack information is really good and it gives me stuff to consider learning when I'm bored and looking for something to do. They also bring up some interesting tools and features which I sometimes have never known to exist - it's always good to learn something new about your OS

Slartibartfast

for all the people who like hping: check out mtr

edit: I've completely underestimated the use of hping.

Unknown

^ What else have you learned about hping?