Darren Kitchen

Darren Dale Kitchen (born 11 February 1983) is the host and creator of the American internet television network Revision3's syndicated show Hak5. He is most notable for his contributions to the hacking community either co-creating or popularizing security auditing devices, such as the WiFi Pineapple, USB Switchblade, and USB Hacksaw. Aside from his weekly appearances on Hak5, he regularly guest hosts on TWIT.tv's netcast Tech News Today with Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane as well as frequent spots for the CNET shows Buzz Out Loud and CNET to the Rescue and TechTV's Call for Help.
Career
Kitchen began his career in the world of hacking writing e-zine articles for phreak groups in the 1990s. After a brief encounter with the phone company he shelved hacking and focused on school. In the early 2000s while working as a systems administrator he returned to the scene, continuing his passion for hacker media with the creation of Hak5.
On 14 August 2008, Kitchen announced that Hak5 would be joining the Revision3 network. Since then his show Hak5 has published new episodes on a weekly basis.
On 1 May 2010, Kitchen embarked on a month-long motorcycle journey across the United States traveling from his former home in Williamsburg, Virginia to settle in the San Francisco Bay Area. The journey, dubbed Hack Across America, was documented in a daily video blog.
Kitchen has been featured by the New York Times, Discovery News, Wired Magazine and Computer World.
His cat is named Kerby, after the Kerberos security protocol.

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