Sn4ggl3 Reconsiders Not Voting, SX OFACE Released to VIP
30 January, 2010 - 12:47 — RaTSn4ggl3 re-read the tutorials and decided that EverestX really put some effort behind his tutorials. He also felt that the hacking nature of the tutorials was supportive of one of the main points of SOLDIERX - gaining access to information. Because of this, Sn4ggl3 has awarded EverestX all of his points (total of 15). I have also reconsidered my decision and given EverestX my remaining 3 points. This puts EverestX as 29 points and gives him third place. In other news, SX OFACE was released to VIP members. If you are VIP, please download and test it today. COSCstudent needs feedback!
2009 Tutorial Contest Votes Tallied, Kayin Takes First Place Again!
28 January, 2010 - 16:03 — RaTWe are happy to announce that all of the votes have been tallied. We have publicly posted the results so that everybody can see how the choices were made. Thank you to everybody who participated. Kayin took first place, COSCstudent took second, and somehow cisc0ninja has taken third. Due to a high council member not being allowed to win in the tutorial contest, cisc0ninja will have to choose somebody to have his shirt sent to. A 2010 tutorial contest is in the works, but we are trying to figure out a way to get more entries and more technical entries than the past two years. Thanks again to everybody who submitted tutorials and to everybody that voted!
Microsoft Issues DMCA Take Down Notice to DECAF
22 January, 2010 - 14:11 — RaTWe were contacted by Mike of Decafme.org to let people know that DECAF has been taken down via a DMCA notice from Microsoft. We are making this post to raise awareness for the ridiculous attempt by Microsoft to break their constitutional rights as well as the cowardice of godaddy.com to give into such a ridiculous request so quickly and easily. Microsoft is claiming it's a copyright violation based on them identifying COFEE in their DECAF program. Decafme.org is currently talking with an organization for legal help in this matter. We wish them the best of luck.
HNN Features SOLDIERX in the Latest Hacker News
12 January, 2010 - 13:40 — RaTWhile many various news outlets have mentioned SOLDIERX from time to time for various reasons, we are particularly fond of HNN because of its history. Early in my hacking days, HNN was a good source for public hacker news. To see the mention, please go to http://www.hackernews.com/?p=1721 and watch the video. We appear at approximately 15:18. We are also here at 3:43. We're glad to see the return of HNN, although it would be nice if they did a slightly better job editing their videos 
Thanks for the mention HNN!
We Need Your Vote!
6 January, 2010 - 14:57 — RaTWe need everybody to vote for their favorite tutorial from the 2009 Tutorial Contest. Please cast your vote. Voting starts now and ends on 1-20-2010.
The voting will be made up of 50% high council and 50% poll voting. That's right, we're going to let the members of our community decide 50% of the vote for who wins the tutorial contest. Good luck to all of the contestants who submitted tutorials this year!
2009 Tutorial Contest and Holiday Releases Over
6 January, 2010 - 14:35 — RaTOur holiday releases are finally over after neotek posted his release. The tutorial contest ended on 01-01-2010 and the high council is currently voting on the various submitted tutorials. I am actually very disappointed in the turn out of the tutorial contest, I guess that a hacked modem/free admission to Defcon 18 weren't considered very good prizes to most of our members. There were actually some good forum topics that could have qualified as tutorials (such as MRI from USB), but none of those members ever submitted them to me via email as a tutorial.
