Hosted by Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. New episodes Tuesdays.
Put together by a band of IT ninjas, security professionals and hardcore gamers, Hak5 isn't your typical tech show. We take on hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Then we wrap it all up with a... Read More
Jason Appelbaum and Jenn Cutter bring us sights from the show floor at the Penny Arcade Expo East 2010. Table top dungeons & dragons on a multi-touch surface! A mod to turn any guitar into a game controller and killer gaming headphones. Plus, Shannon investigates secure delete utilities in this week's Snusb Report. All that and more this time on Hak5.
Jason speaks to Alan Chatham of OpenChord.org about their mod that turns any regular guitar into a Rock Band or Guitar Hero controller!
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Jason talks to producer/designer Dyala Kattan-Wright and programmer Whitney Babcock-McConnell about Carnegie Mellon University project Surfacescapes -- a mashup of Dungeons & Dragons and a Microsoft Surface.
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Jenn Cutter from OpenAlpha.tv speaks with Fred Schweer of Tritton Technologies about their cross-platform gaming headphones.
When you absolutely positively need a file to be gone from your system, never to come back from the grave again, you need a secure delete utility in your arsenal. Today Shannon investigates just that, in this week's Snubs Report
First up, a command-line tool from Microsoft. Sdelete has all the switches and arguments to turn a file into a steaming pile of random bits. It'll even nix NTFS compressed or encrypted files using the Windows defragmentation API. Minding our P's and Q's we learn that the -P option specifies how many times we would like to overwrite a file, and -Q keeps it quiet. Perfect for batch scripting. For example:
@echo off sdelete.exe -p 4 -q -s %1
If you're looking for something a little more graphical and user friendly have a look at INFERNO!. While this open-source Windows utility isn't much to look at, and requires the Microsoft VB 6.0 runtime, it does get the job done. Sporting simple file overwrites, Department of Defense spec overwrites, and the sophisticated Gutmann method for cleaning your disk, this tool surely packs a punch.
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Details on Darren's journey across North America can be found at HackAcrossAmerica.com.
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19 days ago
Hackers!! Our new episode of Hak5 will be posting soon! It's jam packed with epic interviews this week, so stay tuned!
19 days ago
@michael_a_nass Are you enjoying the awesomeness that is Hack Across America?
19 days ago
@jardinesoftware Thanks for the bump! The Throwing Star LAN Tap Pro is one of my favorite tools (though, I prefer soldering mine! :) -@snubs
about a month ago
Employers want social media passwords, US gets a #CPO, and #TheOnion! All that and more this time on #ThreatWire! http://t.co/SrZpicvnt6
about a month ago
#Installing #Solar panels, #Google #Chrome #extensions, and more on @Hak5! http://t.co/QppYLgZpi5
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Legalizing #Internet eavesdropping, #LivingSocial is #hacked, and more on this weeks #ThreatWire! http://t.co/xyIxzy8kes
