Famicoman
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On enough said on the USB issue lets move on I probably should have addressed that in a seperate thread anyway.
I'm sorry, but I can't let this be pushed out of the way of the thread so hastily. Everyone has the right to voice what they feel on this provided its constructive, and this issue has been subject of conversation everywhere for months and months. I'm reminded of the Dev5 meetings where nothing would ever be solved; things would be discussed for 10 lines, and then the subject would change, this would keep going and little would be done. Theres a window here, and it should be taken.
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I can make her go both ways, but if I look at the right spot, she bounces back and forth between 2 points without making a rotation; that scares me.
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The BBS needs a new home (anyone got a windows server that wants to volunteer an intsy bitsy amount of bandwidth?).
It needs new sysops, too.
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If you do use cain, can you show us how to disallow traffic, i.e. launch an arp poison, and then restrict the sending of packets. Or is that not possible...
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you had me at teh nak3d.
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I remember putting off watching season one because I thought it was going to be like commandN, that was a big mistake on my part.
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Hes been banned for a few hours now
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I agree in the since that "we all didn't just appear to the world as hackers" is a true statement. :-?
Speak for yourself, I was born a hacker. 8)
They say that tomb coded himself from nothing.
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You lost me at "dat da".
ditto
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Who do you think Hak.5 (the show) is aimed at?
For one, its no longer Hak.5 the show has (de)evolved to Hak5. It is at present aimed at people wanting to pwn their school and rock out to Guitar Hero. Basically, go to the USB Hacks forum, thats the audience; the average 13-14 year old gamer who likes to talk major shit about people on whilst playing on Xbox Live, and want to fuck up someone's computer to laugh in their face without understanding what they are doing, or how they are doing it, yet alone devoting time to anything helpful or constructive in any sense of the words. They are the people that you would see kicking the shit out of your friends in Junior High just because of a different position in the microcosm; something I am never happy with and something that makes me rethink coming back here every day.
Who do you think it should be aimed at?
I think the show should be aimed at who it originally was aimed at, the hacker; the tech enthusiast; the geek. Those people that would be willing to help you if you asked a (constructive) question; those people you would want to meet up with later and start a club with; those people that would selflessly set up projects and services for the community at which they resided simply because they thought it would be fun for everyone and a great learning experience for all those who wanted to gain information. I always have looked for people who share my interests and want to help me to do something with my time to improve myself and surroundings, however I do not think that this place is able to do that anymore.
Do you think the show hits the viewers you think it's aiming for?
I think the show does hit who its targeting, I see and eliminate countless threads regarding breaking into computers, and people requesting applications that will pwn a box in seconds without realizing just what is going on. Every time I see a new registered account, I hope theres a change for differentiation, but day after day its the same story, degrading and decaying just a little more as time goes by.
What might make it appeal more to the audience you think it should be aimed at?
I want cool segments again, frankly. Case modding, network tricks, controlling your lights over the internet, etc. I'd trade the awesome look and editing of season three for the content that anyone can find in season one in a heart beat. However, it is said that you must be the change that you want to see. As much as I try to make a change, there can never be a strong enough uprising within the existence of the autocracy, the central government completely devoid of civilian and even higher-ranked opinion, left to toil in its own muddy while as it slowly shifts to cater itself and itself only while main focus becomes lacking and the mutation so morose that it does not even like itself.
Where would you like to see the show going?
I want what some may call a self-defeating change; a change which forces the show to go years backwards to a time when segments appealed to a warm crowd and if a project was started, everyone wanted to help out (If you look now, you can see out of thousands that there are give-or-take five people willing to aid you). I currently see the show failing under its own pressure and lack of community integration towards the central core. Once the audience evolves to the point where the "elders" are more or less all killed off, the replacements will be those raised by the new "Hak5" and be unable to keep all of this going to the point where it becomes mass anarchy, lacking any warmth whatsoever and struggling for even the slightest of vitality. This is something I hope is avoidable, but as a warning, mark these words; study them close and long.
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Yeah, for the past two weeks, I've been something of an asshole because of some stuff that was going on, and I really don't want that streak to continue. I don't think I have done anything productive within that time, and its all because I haven't helped others to be.
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This stuff started for back when there were games with no xbox live. It tricked the xbox into thinking it was a lan game, when it was actually online, so people who have original Halo but the inability to throw a lan party were covered. As the games evolved, so did the service. Sometimes you just want to do some custom, non-ranked non-servermade games with other people you don't know just for fun, and this offers it. Its also a great environment for people who modify games to test their creations on a large scale.
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You're looking at it.
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I used to be really big on Xbconnect and Xlink, I recommend them.
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If you mean software for windows, there are two main routes you can go; UnrealIRCD or InspIRCD. I personally like Unreal, though Inspircd is easier to configure. After you pick one of those, anope services should be installed accordingly.
As for an irc bot, windrop (an eggdrop port) is probably your best bet.
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I see, I thought it only lets you download in flash.
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I went with stage6 so I wouldn't have to be bothered by flash.
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I would quite like to revive this, but am stumped.
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LiquidWar
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My friends call me switchbalde... You call me- Robocopy.
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Nice going. Now if it is a female, shes not coming back. We need to extricate you.
Hak5: Viewership & Community
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I'm saying to keep stuff open. You say everyone has voiced (an opinion I assume) on the matter and that the place has cleaned up considerably, but your "everyone" is five people on the forums. You go into irc right now and ask the most hardcore of the most hardcore fans of the show what they think and you'll see the overwhelming tension all this has caused. I'm not even sure I know anyone in favor of them at all. And I for one know that you are not the one who is cleaning up 16 posts of spam and hateful comments to get into the forum with people who won't stop making accounts and threatening users. You are also not the one around when guys hop onto irc and mumble out something the sounds of, "I have a usb h4x and I'm gonna use it on my school. hehehe". Most people that say this are instantly shunned, and normal productive conversation is deterred by this banter. You say that everyone started out as a noob and whatnot, but does that mean we should help them by just tossing them links to payloads and keep them not knowing shit, or do we want to try to help them, teach them to teach themselves, help them become beneficial to a community we all have put so much time into because we like the general atmosphere. I'm still thinking back to that posed question of whether or not the payloads should be distributed disassembled. There is also the eqauting of Pandora to the USB section. Last I checked however, you can't use pandora to fuck someone over. I don't even see any unmalicious use for any of the usb hacks anymore.
At any rate, its your show, its your money, its your time, and who the fuck am I to oppose?
However I really like this place, I come back for the people, and more and more the people I come back for are disappearing and when I ask them why its usually because of some asshole (or group) manifested from this community that was not dealt with, ignored, or prematurely shoved aside. Frankly, I don't want to be one of those people disappearing, and theres a lot of subtlety around that can allude this.