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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.
"
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.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Useful site for those who didn't catch it first on the screensavers. DAve
Does Ramzi make an appearance?
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
I like the iron idea. I think I'll hop over to the local hardware store and grab some on the way home.
This is as much "hacker" as Sum 41 is punk.
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?
It wouldn't be TheBroken without Ramzi! :)
-- Charles A. Plater
And you say this on a community that lives off downloads of large files? Think linux iso for a second...
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.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Only one of the files are on BitTorrent, the other two are straight up downloads... I sense a server meltdown on the horizon.
Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
If you have Winamp you can click on "TV" and watch this and many other shows, music videos, etc. The bitrates available range from 56k for modems, all the way to 1000k for broadband, and everywhere in between.
Install a free alternative like ffmpeg.
Think "The Man Show" meets computers.
Oh yeah! Can't wait to see those scantily clad computers!
Except the bouncing jugs are on guys.
So download the bare codec for Windows, for example.
Signatures are for stupids.
Older versions of DivX don't have the spyware!
It's interesting to see the torrent download rate gradually increase as more and more people start linking to the file from slashdot's site and get more and more of the file. Very cool. Isn't technology wonderful?
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
and now we'll end our show, like we do every show, with geeks on trampolines.
shudder......
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Well consider them a test case to see if a direct link to the torrent on /. can stop a potential download... If it works it shows torrents will save /. websites, if not let the internet gods spare their server from the masses about to descend upon it.
hmm the bittorrent paper says that it does not scale beyond roughly 2000 users. Now, given the number of people who come to /. and the duration of the downloads, it would be interesting to see if the torrent really does die. I have seen the graphs of results going beyond 2600 and it looked prettly bad. Observing the torrent die may prove itself to be more interesting than
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
From: http://forums.thebroken.org/index.php?showtopic=85 88
[FAST]
http://homepage.mac.com/kevinrose/thebroken_3.avi
Scire:
http://www.sourcehack.com/thebroken.htm
[Do not right click, you actually have to goto the page before downloading]
mdubin:
http://maxdubin.com/The_Broken_3.html
[Do not right click, you actually have to goto the page before downloading]
CypherXero:
http://store.mywebdriver.com/cypherxero/vi...thebr oken_3.avi
thebroken server:
http://www.thebroken.org/episodes/03/thebroken_3.a vi
spaceghost7200:
http://www.ghostcorp.net/downloads/thebroken_3.avi
giraphe:
http://giraphe.com/thebroken_3.avi
Lone:
http://www.files.gam3on.com/thebroken_3.avi
Irongeek:
http://orangutan.ius.edu/thebroken/thebroken_3.avi
At least do it for a half-hour after you've completed... that way someone else has a chance of finishing and covering for you after you leave!
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
It sounds like every one here is just too cool for theBroken. Get over yourselves and knock the chip off your shoulders.
I'm curious why people prefer to do their own hosting of self made video files and not use archive.org. They have 500mbps of outgoing bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of storage. Anyone can upload any amount of multimedia for hosting for free. They'll be around for quite a while longer than whatever rigged solution people come up with on their own.
Divx Required? Divx REQUIRED?
No man, no.
FFDShow : http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/
Can I hear a wassup?
RTFM. You need to open up a port or two. No need to get hysterical.
Just run a HTTP connection to the tracker. btshowmetainfo from the offical bt dist will give you the tracker URL: in this case http://fpcat.homelinux.org:6969/
Stick that in a web browser, and ta-da! current stats report. I suspect that not all trackers support this, but this one does.
If you don't want to install BitTorrent, just download from here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
Wasn't it Aluminium with iron oxide? I thought it was a redox reaction.
I was just taking a look at the torrent tracker info and it looks like their are now torrents up for episode 1 and episode 2.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Download and install Azureus. Forward TCP port 6881 to the machine you will be downloading to (you can tell Azureus to listen on a different port if you don't like 6881.)
With my cablemodem, setting the max uploads to 4 and the max upload speed to 16KB per second lets me attain speeds up to 400KB per second.
These are good settings to start with, but you might be able to tweak it to get better speeds depending on your connection. A nice thing about Azureus is when you change your transfer settings they take immediate effect--no applying settings or restarting transfers required.
If you don't forward a TCP port from your firewall it will still work, but you won't be able to connect to anyone else who doesn't have port forwarding on. Unfortunately, this drastically reduces the number of peers your client can download from.
Under the server settings I have my override address set to my external IP address and my bind address set to the IP address of the machine I'm downloading to. Not sure if this is necessary, but it works great for me.
YMMV.
I have to agree. The thing that really bugs me is that he's presenting this stuff like it's really new or unknown. Sure, it's unknown to some script-kiddie wannabe who thinks they are 1337 because they can bring up a DOS prompt in their WinXP, but if you are even the slightest bit experienced as a sysadmin, then nothing in this video should be news to you.
*Yes, we know, LM password hashes (and authentication) are crap. If anyone is still using these in a modern network they deserve to have their networks owned.
*Yes, we know, you can change/reset the password on any Win32 machine using the Linux-based password & registry editors. Well, you can also change the password on a Linux box, or any freaking machine using similar techniques. Once someone has physical access to your drive, you're pretty much screwed.
Anyway, as I mentionned in another comment in this article, the video is for posers and script-kiddies. No serious systems or security person will find anything remotely interesting here. Hell, Kevin Mitnick would probably find the whole thing irritating if he were to see it as a whole.
I guess it goes to show that the slashdot audience has changed over the years....
Dude,
It's a joke! If you've seen the rest of the episodes with Ramzi (he's in all of them so far), any segments with him in it are a joke (as in on purpose to get a laugh or two).
Also, the whole thing kinda mildly mixes (some) tech reality with humorous stereotypes of Hackers (the dudes drink beer throughout the whole show... every show). Most conversations I've had with "real hackers/geeks/anyonewithaclue" would probably make extremely boring tv (Not to say that it isn't possible (never say never) to have a good show with real hackers/geeks/anyonewithaclue, but imho, it is less likely).
Since this is an unofficial spin-off of TechTV's "Dark Tips" with Kevin Rose (Kevin in TheBroken), they are instinctively trying to be entertaining (sparing those who just want a laugh from a seminar in hacking windows (not to mention, sparing themselves from DMCA implications of getting that specific... everything is kinda vague on purpose)). I suspect that most of their regular viewers are also regular TechTV viewers (and probably not "real" hackers (no matter how bizzarly spelled)).
-Joe
If we're all god's children, what's so special about Jesus? - Jimmy Carr
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.
Karma: Chameleon (Mostly affected by the 1980s)
That's why BT is so great. Paranoid and/or selfish people such as yourself either can't get the file at all, or it could take weeks to download what I can download in half an hour. Long live bit torrent!
These are my current BitTorrent stats:
saving: thebroken_3.avi (152.9 MB)
percent done: 26.2
time left: 43 min 29 sec
download to: thebroken_3.avi
download rate: 56.86 kB/s
upload rate: 73.17 kB/s
download total: 40.1 MiB
upload total: 73.5 MiB
I have a public IP-address (I'm not behind a NAT gateway), but I'm behind a firewall that blocks any and all incoming connections (except to port 8080, where Apache is listening). I have full access to the outside however. Given this situation,
a) How are other clients able to send upload requests at all? Do other clients send upload requests in the same TCP/IP connection where I'm downloading from them? When I look at the output of netstat, nobody is indeed connected to port 6881-6889 on my machine, but some connections have quite large Send-Q values.
b) How come I'm getting such a low download rate while I'm uploading so much? Aren't those clients detecting that I'm uploading to them or so? (I have plenty of bandwidth left)
I'm using BitTorrent 3.4.1a.
FWIW: before this firewall was installed, I could easily get 100kb/sec upload, 300kb/sec downloads (and more). The firewall does not rate limit (normal downloads actually go a lot faster than before, because our outside connection was upgraded at the same time).
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Let em put whatever they want on the show, because it is their show..If you want somethin changed, you either pay for the damn costs of hosting, production, etc, or quit bitchin about it and STFU. This was a great show and I found it very entertaining. Keep it up, guys.
nothing.can.stop.me.now
...since it contains cracked copies of paid for software...thanks, but no thanks. The free version of divx (read the basic version, not the free adware supported pro version) is fine for anyone who just wants to view videos, its only when it comes to actually encoding them that the paid for codec comes into its own (being faster).
Link to FREE basic codec, no spyware in this one.
I am NaN
Actually, after looking through the moderated comments, most of them are discussing the way .tor's work or alternative means of hosting video content, or they're echoing a sentiment similar to yours. I'm sure browsing thorugh at 0 or -1 will show the usual smothering of fr1st p0ts as well as the d00d +|-|15 \/1d30 15 t3h 7337!!!!! posts, but it seems to me that the /. moderating system is scaling with the numbers of such posts and keeping them modded down.
Yes, my only tool is a hammer. And you're starting to look like a nail.
But seriously, here's my opinion. I'd like to think it counts for something being a producer and all...
There seems to be two types of people that comment on projects like The Broken, and HaXXXor, and 2600, et al.
First there's the people who say, wow that's cool.
To them, I say: Thank You.
Then there's the people who act as those the presence of any material, whether it's a video, or a print magazine or whatever is a direct threat to their way of life. Then the screaming begins.
It's not the type of thing a REAL SYSADMIN should care about, it's only worth reading if you're 15 (obviously doesn't apply to HaXXXor), it's stupid, why bother, and on and on and on.
I don't really see why the negative points are really valid, besides from the obvious fact that freedom of speech means freedom of all speach. Once you get past the freedom of speech part though, it really doesn't pan out.
First, it's a good thing that people are making videos and books and magazines talking about this sort of thing. While it may be old hat to some people, there's a lot of other people out there that haven't even heard of this stuff. So the next time that you want to lament the masses for their ignorance, remember the heaps of criticism that anyone who produces any material that might help a few more people who aren't as L33t as you to bridge the gap.
Second, for the people out there who throw out the massively insightful, this is stupid and pointless, why bother, type of remarks. Just remember, a lot of really cool things have been created because someone spent a lot of time working endlessly on something that was considered pointless, and then an occassion would come up with something that proved to be useful.
Here's the deal, just remember that there are people actually creating these things. There's a person on the other side of the video, or book, or magazine, or whatever, that's put a lot of time and work in to it. If you think you can do better, then pick up a camera and give it a shot. But if you've never even tried doing something like that before, then why don't you try to appreciate the work that was put in to it, and what was done right, before you rush to tear it apart.
In this community, it is common that a program that still needs a whole lot of work gets gushed over, but the moment someone makes a video it's an instant target? You really should be supporting these efforts (or at least constructively criticizing them). It's hard enough to be a small independent producer. However, it's small independent producers that are the competition to Hollywood and the big television networks. Do you prefer them to be the only people who talk about hackers?
Anyways, that's my take on it...
HaXXXor.com - Naked Chicks Teach You How To Ha
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.
Eh - I'll take a swing at this one.
First off, I'd like to thank you for your work and extend that thanks to thebroken. It's been entertaining. There would probably be a lot less vitriol about if people maintained the perspective of this being entertainment first. However, this leads in to my intial point...
People lose their sense of entertainment when they are fed a constant stream of gross distortions of what they are familiar with. Keep in mind that you are following in the rather gigantic footsteps of Hollywood. And Hollywood has had a rather dismal track record when it comes to hackers (in any sense of the word).
Quite a few years ago, I had a hobby-job at my local ISP covering the evening shift. We ended up with a couple young entry-level helpdesk techs to train. During one of the evening's training the movie Hackers was mentioned. Us seasoned techies classified the movie as a comedy (albiet unintentional). One of our young charges listed it as inspirational.
Our young techie-in-training ended up following a continued pattern. She was really "in" to the "hacker scene". She liked the whole counter-culture / underground idea. She had her hair done in braids and wore counter-culture clothes. She had a certain facination with the concept of being feared by those outside her peer group. In short, she was all set to don the mantle of hacker as imaged by the movie Hackers.
Except for when it came to technical ability.
Our hacker-to-be had no real ability to pick up technical issues. Heck. She didn't even show any interest in actually learning more than the basics needed to do her job. She seemed to lack any resemblance of interest that would otherwise put her on a hacker's path.
But she could dress the part. Or at least, the part as defined in Hackers.
And this is likely the source of people's agrivation. Sure - this stuff is entertaining. But it is more often than not completely mistreated by Hollywood. And then to rub salt in to wound, one runs in to waves of wanna-bes that faithfully emulate that completely distorted image.
I understand how that could grate on one's nerves. Heck. I've seen it first hand. But I don't get upset over this kind of stuff. Even now that I find Hackers a little less funny all things considered.