[The server hosting Hak5.org and the Hak5 forums was hacked.]

I get it that hacks happen but I think it's a bit ironic that Hak5 got hacked.

I'm also wondering why the password database doesn't encrypt the passwords themselves. This implies that they are in plain text. Wouldn't even a simple hash of some kind be enough?

[Episode 5x03]

so the trivia question was in dots and dashes (morse code), and when you decrypted the morse code, the question was: What does this and Shannon have in common?

At first I was thinking was too literally about the word "this", but after I realized they were talkin about the code, my brain put together that Shannon's last name was Morse and the code was Morse.

If Darren sees this, I was wondering if you've emailed me yet, I was typing kinda fast and I think I might have mispelled my email address :P

I got confused by the large and small dots

[Episode 5x03]

hehe I won the trivia!!

I spent at least 30 minutes trying to figure it out the week before when I realized what it really was this week (took me 2 minutes then) :D

great episode guys! I wanna get a usb dev board now :D

Can you explain then? I don't see how that was morse code

[Passworded RAR]

Advanced RAR Password Recovery http://www.elcomsoft.com/arpr.html

That's what I used in the past. If you have some idea of what password is, like if it's a word and not just random numbers and letters, and how long it is, you can get it done fairly quickly.

It cost $30USD, I'm not sure what the trial limits are.

They also have one for ZIP files, which for me I found worked much faster but it only does ZIPs.

If you got this via torrent, usually there is 2 ways to get the password.

1. If there is a web address in the file name; eg: www.joeblow.com then that is the password.

2. There is either a text that is not encrypted within the RAR file or the text file is just part of the set of files and not within that RAR itself.

[MythTV]

What's wrong with the one that Kevin Rose did on Systm?

http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv