Phrack E-zine Comes To An End

Flammable writes "Since 1985 Phrack has been releasing ezines to public about Hacking, Cracking, Radio, Social Engineering, etc. All things come to an end, and Phrack is no different: the last issue, #63, is accepting articles from the community now."

Comments

Re:2600 is still around

[KingPunk]

as long as i got my 2600, the world is fine.
and quite honestly, i've always been quite partial to 2600 also.
just something to the whole team, they make you feel,
like family kinda.. and the radio shows own. ;)

Re:heh..

[kjamez]

well, i do get a little tired of reading this in bugtraq/securityfocus and then 10 minutes later seeing it on /. ... but here's my .02:

the release i saw in bugtraq (i think, they all end up in the same folder) said they are going to goto hardcover and e-zine format ... which is (minus hardcover) is what they have been doing?

(not trying to be a karma whore, the mysql died apparently on them:)

in the email to bugtraw@securityfocus.com:

---- /snip
Deadline: 10 July 2005 at 11:59pm
http://www.phrack.org/cfp_final.txt
---- /snip

Phrackstaff is please to bring you our LAST EVER CALL FOR PAPAERS for the FINAL RELEASE of PHRACK.

We are preparing for a hardcover and ezine release at a major hacker convention near you!


going on to say they'll keep the website up for two years after, "more about the decision in the release."

one: i didn't know phrack HAD released anything in any real ammount of time recently. two: my mirror of phrack issues stops at 41, and is dated december 21, 1992. three: i always liked cDc better. different content, granted, but it was a much better 'publication' all together.

mirror dot

[gr8fulnded]

Not much, but here's mirrordot anyway... mirrordot front page

Re:i didn't know

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope - l0pht went 100% commercial and are/were unrelated to phrack. Your confusion probably stems from the frequent changes of staff (generally in a downward direction).

Re:All-time Top 10 Articles

[Anonymous Coward]

When that was published, nobody (except a select few) knew jack about buffer overflows. The security email lists didn't talk about it. Nobody talked about it. For sure that's gotta be the most famous article in Phrack. Not that there weren't lots of other good ones. It's been one of the best resources for technical info. Actually I don't know of any other zine that comes close. Stuff like 40Hex et al seems to have died out...

Re:2600 is still around

[Anonymous Coward]

2600 took over for TAP, which was originally named YIPL - and founded by Abbie Hoffman. Despite your phrases like "over the years", "always", and "old school", you don't seem to know much about what has gone over the years or what the *real* old school is. I seriously doubt you know anything of the days when hackers chatted more on x.25 like Altos and Lutzifer and QSD than TCP/IP networks, "old school" to you seems to be measured in years, not decades. Hacker publications were born in activism, Abbie Hoffman and YIPL were not four-eyed nerds working at defense contractors like the "fathers of the Internet", they were activists taking a crack at Ma Bell. As far as articles, Phrack and 2600 have space to fill, one of the reasons 2600 only publishes quarterly, so that it will have at least some decent articles every issue. Phrack and 2600 rarely had high quality articles, when they did they were often reprints. But they were published from time to time, and the distribution of them between 2600 and Phrack was fairly even. 2600 is not just a magazine anyhow, it's a web site, it has a radio show, IRC channels, meetings, conferences etc.

Furthermore, I seriously doubt Phrack will die. The current editors are giving up but someone is sure to revive it. The editorship of Phrack has changed hands many times.

Use web.archive, Luke

[rekrutacja]

Full content of website is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.phrack.org /

EOT

[Doc Ruby]

At least 2600 is still up.