Hak5 Could be a Good Podcast
September 25th, 2008
I don’t know if you caught the promo for Hak5 on Diggnation, but it looked pretty cool. I was excited to check out Revision3’s newest addition based on the advertised topics and content, unfortunately I was extremely disappointed.
The show could be awesome - they have a great setup and occasionally hint on neat new ideas however I have a couple problems with it.
- Darren talks too much and is extremely repetitive.
- The beer drinking looks forced, plus it’s overdone.
- No one cares about Windows… or its limitless insecurities/vulnerabilities. This seems to be the topic of every show.
- Everyone looks so uncomfortable, and they try WAY too hard to be funny… FAIL.
- I think Shannon was hired as an equal opportunity employee, that or to get female viewers, regardless she is misinformed (I am not trying to be mean).
- The “Hamster Dance” song should not be played anywhere but the deepest reaches of hell.
I could go on forever but there is something about it that makes me watch every week, I can not explain why (so they must be doing something right). I really wish these guys would cover more interesting topics such as Asterisk, IPTables, Bind or NAS and stop trying to be funny! It is not working. Otherwise it is a lot of fun.
Sorry our show disappointed you. I think you’d probably enjoy some of our prior seasons though. http://www.hak5.org/category/episodes
If you stick with it I think you’ll find there is something really special about Hak5.
Cheers,
Darren
Wow, never thought I would have the star of the show comment on this blog.
Guys, try not to take this as an insult - I just think it could be way super awesome-o if you dropped some of the M$ nonsense.
I will be watching next episode