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    WiFi Pineapple battery

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    but its kinda like the blender guy on youtube when it all comes down to it. Sure your not supos to blend your iPhone, but that doesnt stop Apple from sending one out free, just to get the advertising out there.

    Hak5 has a lot of views, look at Hacksaw, how many of you went out and brought U3 drives, just so you could play around with the idea that hacksaw presented? In the same way it can be used for Fon, how many people who watch hak5 new about the Fon Router before the episode was released? 10-25% of views? well now it would be closer to +80%

    People who sell products for profit are after one thing, and Hak5 is a perfect place to advertise. Sure the ideology for the Fon isn't being praised, but im sure most people out there are happy to bend the rules, just a little but, if it means that your pockets are a little fatter at the end of the day.

    I think this pretty well sums it up.

    I'm bringing this to the Darrens and attention

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    Well now. I wonder how long this will last before it gets deleted!

    Lets see, the funniest thing about this is that I received a mini-lecture from Darren on professionalism about my resignation. How I should have given him "more notice". Well, maybe I should have, however, I'm not an employee. The whole idea of Hak5 was started as a partnership. Secondly, yes, I did mention that I was thinking about leaving Hak5 on our way to Shmoocon. I was getting burnt out. I'm one person and I had a lot of things going on. The biggest being my job. I work for a consulting company now as a consultant. It's my job to go to clients anywhere in the country and provide a service. For the entire time that i was missing in Season 3, I was flying back and forth to Denver, CO. My schedule was Monday - Thursday. This left 1 weekday and the weekend to pack a week's worth of life into.

    Having a g/f at the time and our own place, I had several other things that took priority over Hak5. If was going to do a segment for the show, I didn't want it to be ill prepared and rushed. Also, during that time, very little correspondence was made with me about the status of the show. I never heard anything about ideas that were being tossed around, direction for Hak5 as a whole, nothing. I had yielded myself to the fact that with my words spoken to Darren, and my general lack of availability, that I had been, for lack of better words, 'cut out'.

    I am not placing all the blame of the communication break down on Darren or the rest of the crew. I take my fair share by admitting to the fact that I could have used some of my free time on the road to chime in on things, actively seek updates, and find or design good segments to bring to you, the fans.

    I did tell Darren that I wanted to be an active part of Season 4. I thought that I could bring back the passion that I once had. I did start looking for new and exciting ideas for segments to bring to all of you. Then, I realized that I felt like I was being treated like a minion, not an equal. I didn't find out about the Rev3 partnership until they called me to go out to dinner so they could inform me. It wasn't an asking of opinion, it was "Hey, we're going to partner with Revision3! Isn't that awesome!" This was a big turning point in my frame of mind. There was no forewarning, no consultation, I had been shunned from the 'in crowd' as far as I saw it.

    I have stated before that I have no problems with Hak5 partnering with Revision3. I do think that it will provide them with great opportunities. That, coupled with not having to worry about encoding, web hosting, bandwidth, or a lot of the other back-of-house processes, should give them ability to constantly provide you with the weekly serving of TechnoLust.

    With the drastic changes happening to Hak5 and my general frame of mind and unsettled opinion, I felt it best if I left. I would neither benefit the cast nor be doing the viewers any credit. The final catalyst for this was the fact that I had not been informed of the official press release date to make the partnership public. My twitter started blowing up with all the cast members making it public.

    With all the turmoil going on anyway, I thought it would be the best time to leave. Both to keep the rumor mill from thinking that it was the partnership itself was my sole reason, and I thought that the exciting news of them working with Rev3 would over-shadow the news of my leaving. I thought that if things are going to change that largely, then a little more change wouldn't be bad. I did try to give Darren a little bit of a heads-up, but it was, by no means, the '2 week notice' that Darren made it seem that he deserved.

    I thought that I made my public resignation very professional. Most people that read it to give me an opinion agreed that it was well written. Darren tried to rake me over the coals by picking out the line "...personal differences..." He thought that conveyed that we were at each others' throats and it was generally "unprofessional".

    Yet, I find this section in a rather lengthy post by him, basically throwing me under the bus. Now, I ask you, who' showing the lack of professionalism. Some will argue that I'm no better for posting this reply, but sometimes, one cannot bite their tongue hard enough. If the prosecution asks a question during their examination, in a court of American law, it is free game for the defense to try and poke holes in it.

    I still, in all honesty, wish them the best of luck in all future endeavors. I'm happy that a lot of people seem to enjoy the new format. However, I will not get thrown under the bus like that and not have something to say.

    --Wess

    My decision was mine

    Doesn't matter if this post gets deleted, copy paste FTW! Good Luck WESS!

    WiFi Pineapple battery

    in Everything Else

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    hmmm potentially a sticky situation but if I buy something I will do with it as I like. I bet my bottom dollar all of us have used pirated software at some point or used our hardware for things not originally intended for. Owners choice and responsibility to deal with whatever consequences.

    I'm bringing this to the Darrens and attention

    in Everything Else

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    Snubs may well be copping some grief because the perception of "Oh your in because you are darrens gf" is probably getting around. Who the fuck cares even if that is the case? She is contributing to a show we all love and that's what counts, not how she got there. My wife is getting nerdier by the day and I'm stoked. Plus my daughters all love computers too. Women+computers=win

    Enough ranting and apolgies mrynit didn't mean to take from what you were trying to say.

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