Hacker Radio

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Presented By Sl1pm0de
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What is Hacker Radio?
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Hacker Radio
Is the spreading of information, awareness and
ideas. It provides a forum of discussion about
the topics that we face in the technological
world of today. Hacker Radio is audio, usually
distributed over the Internet or radio.
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Where did it all start?

• Ham and shortwave radio
• Bulletin Boards
• Websites
• Mailing lists
• News servers
• E-Zines, textfiles, magazines and printed
  materials
• Forums and news sites

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Why do hackers cover this type of information?

• Hackers, in general like to spread information
  and awareness
• Hackers are one of the first to discover
  important subjects such as how technology affects
  our lives and our future
• Hackers help to develop important survival
  techniques within our technological society
• Hackers develop innovation through existing
  technologies or by creating new ones

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What are some of the topics Hacker Radio covers?

• The world of hacking
• The world of phone phreaking
• Discussion of social and legal issues that have
  to do with the impact of technology on our world
• Discussion of new technologies
• Discussion of technical companies and the impact
  that corporate politics can have
• Enlightening and educational topics having
  anything to do with technology and process

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Why not the news media to cover such topics?
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Things to consider in Hacker Radio

• What type of content will you have in your show?
• How often are you going to do your show?
• Is your show going to be live or pre-recorded?
• How are you going to spread the word about your
  show?
• Will your show have capabilities such as call
  ins, listener E-mail, live IRC chat, telephone
  conferences, etc.

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The technicalities of the show

• What recording equipment do we use?
• What software do we use to record the audio?
• What audio format will the show be in?
• How will the show be distributed?

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What recording equipment do we use?

• The most common way to record is to use your
  computers sound card microphone and speaker
  phone
• More advanced recording can be done with a mixer,
  multiple microphones, head phone amp with
  headphones for all the show guests and a CD
  player or other device for background music and
  effects
• You can also record yourself and guests by
  recording the audio from your VOIP calls on your
  computer or by making a phone call with your
  modem
• If your lucky you can actually use a radio studio
  to do your show

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What software do we use to record the audio?

• Support Open Source and use Open Source audio
  programs

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• ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and
  graphical audio file editor primarily for but not
  limited to the Linux operating system.
• Tip Follow these steps to save your audio to
  16Kbps MP3 format
• File gt Save as
• Check Use LAME options
• type -h -mm -b 16 --resample 16

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• Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record
  sounds,
• play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg
  Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit
  your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with
  unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply
  effects to your recordings. It also has a
  built-in amplitude envelope
• editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a
  frequency analysis window for audio analysis
  applications. Built-in effects include Echo,
  Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also
  supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects.

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What audio format will the show be in?

• The most popular audio format is MP3. MP3 is not
  an open standard
• Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a completely open,
  patent-free, professional audio encoding and
  streaming technology with all the benefits of
  Open Source

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How will the show be distributed?

• Archived files of shows on the web
• Live streams of your show
• Distributed media server and other media outlets

Hackermedia.net
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Some of the shows that are out there now

• In The Now
• Radio Freek America
• Binary Revolution
• Default Radio
• Daily Default
• Off The Hook
• Uberleeto
• DTMF

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What's else is out there?

• Hacker Video
• Documentaries
• Shows

Hack T.V. The Broken Doug T.V. Whitesword T.V.
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What are other methods to spread awareness?

• Take your own initiative on issues and educating
  others in your daily life
• Support groups like the Electronic Frontier
  Foundation or develop a group for your cause
• Participate in local events and groups
• Exercise your own intelligence throughout your
  life

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What would I like you to walk away with from this
talk?

• The idea is to be aware of the ever changing
  world we live in and the problems that may occur
  if technology is abused
• If you feel like you want to participate in
  something like Hacker Radio, I hope my
  presentation has given you some ideas on how you
  can make that happen

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