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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."
I could always find something interesting in useful in Phrack.
2600 magazine seems to keep a little more up-to-date than phrack anyways.
Judging by the release rate of the last few years "apathy" on the part of the Phrack editors seems to be the order of the day, but that's perhaps a little unfair. There have been scores of papers published that would have been worthy of Phrack at its best in that time. The problem is that everyone writing such papers can just as easily create their own website and publish their works there. Why wait for what might be several months to see you work published for what little kudos being published in Phrack still has left and risk someone else stealing your fifteen minutes of fame?
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
The way Phrack has presented security information with a sense of humor has always made Phrack an entertaining read. Even when the articles weren't funny, and were serious, the tone had already been set with the loopback section. It is sad that Phrack will no longer be something to look forward to.
However, anyone who has followed Phrack will admit that it peaked long ago, and has slowly been going away. Phrack closing shouldn't be a shock to anyone. I'm glad someone finally decided to say 'it's over' rather than having one issue a year.
time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
Hacking, by definition, is attempting to figure out how something works. Hackers, therefore, are constantly curious - they never accept what they're told and always must find out if something is true for themselves.
So, a guy who looks for security holes in software? A hacker. Someone who researches historical details to find out the truth of a certain event? Major hacker. A twelve-year-old kid who takes apart a Walkman to figure out how it works? Definitely a hacker.
People like those you describe, therefore, are not hackers at all. They don't seek knowledge, for whatever end; they just want the infamy and script-kiddie-cred that come with making the lives of other people miserable. It is only the media, constantly seeking demons to vanquish, that paints these people as "hackers" without even knowing what the term really means. And it's people like you who, by furthering the stereotype, continue to give hackers a bad name by making them synonymous with criminals.
Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
I had the pleasure of meeting or knowing several of the editors and the wear and tear on their enthusiam was evident as the torch was passed. Today it seems hard to find like-minded individuals willing to take up the cause in the ether-sea of a me-too generation.
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Graduate security courses? I read and understood (well, probably 90% understood) STS in highschool. And i'm far from being a genius. It's great, but not graduate-level complex.
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers." -- JRockway
the difference is, rather than have your story in phrack when it appeared every now and then, everyone just blogs or posts thier article on the web and see it NOW rather than later...
no sig for you