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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.
This is as much "hacker" as Sum 41 is punk.
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...
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?"
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
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
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?
Depending upon where you live, you may be suprised to find trucks on the interstate hauling molten aluminum. There has been one accident to my knowledge, vaporizing the occupant of a car.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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.
RTFM. You need to open up a port or two. No need to get hysterical.
If you don't want to install BitTorrent, just download from here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
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
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
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...
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