Hack3r has always been about protecting free speech and we believe SOPA abuses that.
Please protest SOPA.
The sirens are being relocated this weekend for the new roothack.org, They should be back up by Monday the 20th
However, from now until Defcon they will be online and offline intermittently as we test our new hardware and infrastructure.
Soo, you might be wondering why Roothack.org is currently just a login screen.
We (eps, dbag, and myself) have been working hard over the past year to restructure and make Roothack.org a separate entity from Hack3r.com. The reason mainly being that they ARE separate. Roothack was supposed to be separate from Hack3r.com and for awhile we were not able to do that. Well, thats over, and were finally setting everything up on production. Over the next few weeks we will be testing setting up new games, adding teams, and playing the games.
The sirens are going to be down intermittently throughout the next couple of days as we prepare to update roothack.org. Hop in IRC, or browse the forums while you're waiting :)
Edit: They're up!
Welcome to the new hack3r.com. While it may seem like things have been getting slow to some, Hack3r.com and Roothack.org still see a combined average of 400 hits a day from all over the world. Which means people are still coming to us to get information and play in RH's only online game that is up at the moment, The Sirens.
Sirens will be up for the time being however I may turn them off from time to time to move things around and get ready for the new launch of roothack.org. As always, stay tuned.
The Sirens will be down for the weekend as eps and I do some much needed work on the API. :)
Stay tuned.
I just wanted to let people know of some other things Ive been working on, you know, to get the word out there.
For the past year Ive been building a log file viewer specifically for OS X called survlog. You can find it here It handles local and remote log file viewing. Read more after the picture :)
I know it wasn't scheduled or anything, but the sirens will be down at max until Saturday while we work on some upgrades to hardware, and prepare for our new system. Will keep you posted on this thread. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
EDIT : They are back online.
Over the past couple of years, Roothack.org has been using Vmware Workstation to handle its wargames. We've built up quite a few machines and its getting pretty annoying having to take snapshots for people, revert their boxes, or even install a new OS. It requires us to manually use the vmware gui(pictured below) which has been getting the job done. 