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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @06:13AM from the something-fun-to-watch dept.

From a reader: "The guys over at thebroken have put together a fun hacking videozine ( .torrent here ). This episode covers Windows password hacking, destroying your hard drive with 3,000 degree molten iron, console modding, and an interview with Kevin Mitnick. Think "The Man Show" meets computers. Divx Required. "

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Bandwidth Usage here we come! by Shakrai · 2004-03-23 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

OMG -- a real live bittorrent related to a frontpage /. article. Now not only can I do my part to cause the /. effect -- I can help enable others to do the same using my own bandwidth!
Who knew the paid subscription would come in handy afterall? I've already got 50% of it. I'll be sharing this puppy for the next few days :) God, I love the Internet.

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1. Re:Bandwidth Usage here we come! by spaceman+harris · 2004-03-23 06:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This must set the record for the largest file ever linked to on Slashdot.
  
  156 megs! I used to have a hard drive that size.
2. Re:Bandwidth Usage here we come! by wmspringer · 2004-03-23 07:47 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  You had a hard drive? My first computer didn't even have a hard drive, we had to use floppies and cartridges! And we were glad to have them! Kids today... :-)
  
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3. Re:Bandwidth Usage here we come! by afidel · 2004-03-23 07:55 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Floppies, the luxury! My first computer had toggles that you used to enter the data, there WAS no storage, my second one used unreliable casette tapes, it wasn't till my first PC that I got floppies. My first computer with a HDD was a PC AT clone with a 5.25" full height 20MB MFM HDD. Now I have a camera with more storage than my fifth computer =) Isn't Moores law and related activities a wonderfull thing.
  
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Just one question by spellraiser · 2004-03-23 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Does Ramzi make an appearance?

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3000 Degree Molten Iron by kb0pin · 2004-03-23 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

I like the iron idea. I think I'll hop over to the local hardware store and grab some on the way home.
BAH by Aliencow · 2004-03-23 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

This is as much "hacker" as Sum 41 is punk.
1. Re:BAH by LordoftheFrings · 2004-03-23 06:21 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'd have to disagree. For the average person, this is quite the hacking video. It's got windows password cracking, some hardware fun, and do you even KNOW who Kevin Mitnick is?
  
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2. Re:BAH by Excen · 2004-03-23 06:59 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  but you have to remember who his audience typically is!
  
  The Fark.com crowd?
  
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3. Re:BAH by ethx1 · 2004-03-23 07:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'd have to disagree. For the average person, this is quite the hacking video. For the average hip hop fan, Sum41 is quite the punk band.
  
  The parent post said it perfectly. You have only made his/her point.
4. Re:BAH by edbarrett · 2004-03-23 09:25 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I had 5 kids under the age of 10 dancing to the censored version of "Police Truck" in the opening of THPS1 this weekend. And it brought a tear to my eye.
  f33r m3.
Spin-Off by Bs15 · 2004-03-23 06:16 · Score: 3, Funny

These guys came from TechTV. Kinda like a spin-off show of the screen savers. What next? Leo LaPorte and Patrick Norton get their own spin-off?
1. Re:Spin-Off by michael+path · 2004-03-23 06:44 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Even Mitnick has a TechTV connection. Darci Wood, Kevin's girlfriend used to be a contributor on TSS, and they met on the set. She left the show in order to move to L.A. to live with him.
  
  Damn. Talk about Social Engineering.
Re:Just one question by cplater · 2004-03-23 06:17 · Score: 3, Funny

It wouldn't be TheBroken without Ramzi! :)

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Sure... by Otter · 2004-03-23 06:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Think "The Man Show" meets computers.
Not that I've watched it yet, but I'm guessing there's at least one aspect of The Man Show that's not going to appear in this video.
Unless you count Mitnick's.

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1. Re:Sure... by kb0pin · 2004-03-23 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  What! No supermodels on trampolines! Some torrent this is.
2. Re:Sure... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 06:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Unless you count Mitnick's.
  
  Hey, a B cup is a B cup.
3. Re:Sure... by FortKnox · 2004-03-23 06:37 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You want the man show meets computers? Try HaXXXor.com (Not safe for work).
  
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Oh yeah! by tuxlove · 2004-03-23 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Think "The Man Show" meets computers.

Oh yeah! Can't wait to see those scantily clad computers!
1. Re:Oh yeah! by Gudlyf · 2004-03-23 06:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Oh yeah! Can't wait to see those scantily clad computers!"
  Or CPU's bouncing on Trampolines!
  
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Just like the Man Show by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 06:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Except the bouncing jugs are on guys.
Bleh...... by Kenja · 2004-03-23 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny

"Think "The Man Show" meets computers."
and now we'll end our show, like we do every show, with geeks on trampolines.
shudder......

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Re:Easy fix by baudilus · 2004-03-23 06:35 · Score: 2, Funny

haha I clicked that and was hit with the following message:

SpyBot-S&D has blocked the download of "Avenue A, Inc."!

I know one has nothing to do with the other but still struck me as ironic.
Holy dorkage... by Majik+Sznak · 2004-03-23 07:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Wholly entertaining! I could only take it in 5 minute intervals, though...

It's hard to watch dorky white guys who think they're a) cool and b) black for more than a short stretch at a time. :)

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The broken free tshirts by bangular · 2004-03-23 11:06 · Score: 2, Funny

I remember awhile back the prices for their tshirts were kept in a hidden form field and to get discounted tshirts all you had to do was save the html locally and change the hidden fields. I emailed them and apparently they didn't think it was a problem. Their server allowed zone transfers. Ran gobs of outdated exploitable daemons. Their bulletin board software contained quite a few sql injection exploits.

Not getting into a hacker war, these guys really don't know what they are doing. Passing prices through hidden values? I think they use someone else's ecommerce software now, but before they were using cgi they wrote. That's seriously pathetic. They don't know very basic things related to security. They are the worst security site I've ever seen on the internet. Worse than happy hacker.

War driving? This site should just slap 1337 speak all over their site right now and get it over with, because that's about the level site they are. Bugtraq, Securiteam, Packetstorm, Phrack, and the likes are quality security organizations. I can't say I'd put the broken in nearly the same league as them. I doubt they could smash anything for fun an profit.