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PHRACK Final
lbolla writes ""...a glorious era comes to an end. #63 will be _our_ last PHRACK RELEASE -- ever...
Phrackstaff is pleased to bring you _our_ last ever call for papers for the final release of phrack.
We are preparing for a hardcover and ezine release at a major hacker convention near you!
We ask everyone to submit a paper. Great care will be taken to ensure that only the best articles make it into PHRACK FINAL.""
Isn't this the third time they stop?
Or where I badly misinformed?!
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Didn't they do a final call for papers a few months ago?
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... and we could have issues up to 127
Hardly news this has been common knowledge all year.
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Considering their emphasis in the official announcement, one is likely to think that they expect another body to take over the release, but haven't found any suitable. It is a common pattern to announce the end of something, then to discover this great possibility for a sequel. I have no doubt they're different.
Take off every 'ZIG' !!
Try http://www.phrack.org/ The link (without the "www.") didn't work for me. (Server not found)
I faintly remember something about them, in the days of blueboxing and greedily awaiting the newest cDc release.
But, uh, isn't it a little past their time? What has Phrack done, y'know, since people started using the internet instead of phone lines?
No, I'm really asking, because my workplace proxy blocks phrack.org.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
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As a test of the generic slashdot population, you will even have to think a little bit to get to our website...
(That, or we are too un-1337 to actually have a dns-entry that forwards to www)
they used a 6-bit counter :(
Is it all ready that time of the year when PHRACK makes a last call for their last issue ever?
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I seem to remember them saying the same thing about their previous issue.
hello dear sirs my name is jamesh i are india (bihar) can u guide me install red had linux 9?
Looking at the cover of their previous issue... is it any surprise that hackers have a reputation as being hairy palmed, sex-starved, sad sack porno hounds?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I heard they're gonna stop releaseing TAP too!!!!
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The Who announces farewell tour...
Summercon, http://www.summercon.org/ once run by the folks at Phrack is this week in Austin, TX. I wonder if any of the Phrack alumni will attend and what they will say about the final Phrack.
Didn't they do a "Final" call for papers on Full-Disclosure a good 3 months ago? Could it be that nobody wants to submit and article to an E-zine that you've turned into a joke ... supporting Defcon even.
Phrack has been on a "final issue ever" several times. There's very little going on these days in it and the main contributors seem to be idiots with very little l33t sk1llz. Gone are the days of VAX hacking, the best techniques for trashing and how to make petrol bombs. These days everyone has open access to all of this information and more with google and basic internet. I wonder what happened to Taran King and Knight Lightning .......
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
Two words: burn victims.
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PHRACK is dead
I thought that the entire community of real hackers moved on to more intelligent, less "omfg 1337 lol" material, like 2600. For every interesting article in Phrak, there are 2 uninformative or just-plain-dumb articles.
Wasn't supposed to be issue #63 their last issue?
I wouldn't mind you in my head, if you weren't so clearly mad -Lews Therin Telamon
Or maybe Frak! IT
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This was announced months ago, in fact, I even submitted this months ago. Lots of editors have resigned from Phrack and Phrack has "died" many times in the past. Each time the quality of the articles has improved with the new influx of editors. If it dies, so be it. If not, the next generation will probably be an improvement.
With a list of possible submissions including:
- hacking
- phreaking
- spying
- carding
- reverse engineering
- anarchy
- conspiracy
could all get you labeled as a terrorist, charged by the DMCA, and in general land you in GITMO. The homeland security bill and other draconian laws are the reason why this will be the last Phreak ezine. This is because all the good hackers have gone underground (any of these themes remind you of Farenheit 451?).
It's sad when the free exchange of information, ideas, and determining security exploits outside of anonymity could get you into lots of trouble.
No news... I saw it already in that 0-day news site...
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I've always gotten a kick out of this article in the first issue of PHRACK:
http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=1&a=7
In it, the poster spells out a recipe for an acetylene balloon bomb. Fill up a plastic bag with acetylene, put some rocks in it, put some of those little fun-spans in it, then throw it out the window... Always cracks me up when I think about some fucktard throwing fun-snaps into a bag filled with rocks and acetylene/oxygen...
Maybe it's because of articles like this that PHRACK is dead.
bash: rtfm: command not found
This is a shame. Phrack was a large mag back then, and I think it should regroup and change their image a little and cover today's technology a little more, although possibly too big now for a single mag to cover. Least it's free. Does anyone remember Spellcasters ASM tutors?
Why UNIX?
or visually impaired I can't get those things right about 50% of the time.Sorta like a PK Dick story I think I'm human but I'm really a script.
After they moved away from their 'anarchy' roots phrack become a very informative publication - much better than the crap you usually get in 2600(how to phreak walmart phones etc).
What ever happened to zines? Are there still any decent h/p zines being released?
It seems that all the fun stuff in the technology world is going away. The whole mentality of the industry has changed. I remember when computers were neat and fun, now they are just about as amusing as a toaster.
Remember all the innovative games? Remember when new things came out? Remember when you spent hours in the basement trying to trick it all into doing things it wasn't supposed to?
I do.
But those days are long gone. I think it's because you can do too much with cheap hardware now. There is no challenge. Getting that last few compute cycles out of a program saves you a millionth of a microsecond. Who cares? The machines are too capable, so there is no challenge, hence no fun.
Now to go write some code for my hp48. At least it's still sufficiently slow!
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
good riddance phrack
long live PHC
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:07:11 +0000
From: dontreply@phrack.org
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] PHRACK #63 CALL FOR PAPERS
[...]
Phrackstaff is pleased to bring you our LAST EVER CALL FOR PAPERS for
the FINAL RELEASE of PHRACK.
Wow you must be an Xtr3m H4x0r....loser.
this is the final and the need mad good papers
of course theyre gonna post multi...foo
Good thing I think women suck.
It's Mega Maid. She gone from suck to blow.
... the answer I get here is better, more informative, and more condensed than what I can get from archive.org, Google's cache or whatever?
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
It was in this way that I came to an understaning that technology is not read-only; not simply a malevolent behemoth controlled by presidents and CEO's to manipulate a passive citizenry; but is in fact waiting to be created and tinkered with by such inquiring minds as my (former) self. Although my initial motives may have been anti-social I have since been able to contribute to society in a way that is, on balance, positive. I hope PHRACK continues to inspire others in the same way.
That and Steven Levy's Hackers probably saved me from a destiny as an ineffectual philosophy professor or some other brand of malcontent fat-assed intellectual.
I honestly didn't know Phrack was still around. I'd like to say it's sad to see them going, but then again I haven't seen or heard anything relating to Phrack in 15 years.
//e at 300 baud (When I finish school and get a job, someday I'll be able to afford a 1200 baud modem...I can't wait!!).
Phrack conjures up memories--now viewed through rose colored glasses--of a time when computing, as well as the culture surrounding computers, seemed far more interesting then it is today. Late at night watching text files stream across a black and green 80 column monitor, being pumped to my beloved Apple
I remember sitting at my desk spitting Dr. Pepper through my nose reading text files on BBS systems from the likes of "The Cult of the Dead Cow", or the seminal "How to Have Fun in K-Mart", or viewing works of the Phrack variety on hacking, cracking, and security with immense curiosity. It was great, because this computer I had was giving me a window into a world populated with people who, in many respects, were just like me.
Then as the 80s turn to the 90s, I got my first shell account on the Internet, and traded love of BBS systems for IRC, Usenet and gopher. A few years later, hypertext markup hit, and com programs like Telemate, Procomm, or Qmodem quietly were replaced by Trumpet winsock.
It didn't take long for the Internet to catch on, and a few years later IRC and discussion boards turned from being meeting points for curious, likeminded nerds to massive bland playgrounds seemingly populated by the same kind of people I initially used computers for to help get away from.
Then again, maybe the olden days weren't really as great as I remember them.
The Internet is generally stupid
It's a shame, really. But fear not, there is a new hacking webzine brewing on the horizon.
//EuroHacker editor (get in touch at eurohacker@gmail.com)
Check out EuroHacker Magazine [nyud.net] (yes, the Coral Cache link may be a bit slow but getting Slashdotted means infinite slowness) which is a European webzine about hacking, guns and survival (we accept articles from non-Euros though).
If you're into neat hacks, general paranoia, pro-gun issues and survivalism, I think you oughta check out our zine and maybe consider contributing an article or so! We're only at three issues thus far but we need all the help we can get.
...but if I'm lucky I'll be able to make it into the last-ever loopback!
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Really, is this news for nerds ? I have read a few PHRACKs and most of them are just pointers for people with a little skill that wanto be a h4x0r. Really. It should be called "Script kiddy journal" and not make it on the /. front page.
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...testing how much BS they could spew before anyone would notice. the very first article is a prime example.
Who gives these guys the right to 'cease' publishing Phrack??
Information wants to be free!! Fork it!!
teflon
Idiot?!?!
Try a pointer to a machine! the first segment is the last bit (segment) given to the dns in which the dns returns an IP address of the HOST! if it was s1.www.yourdomain.com then yes it would be a subdomain. However by rule of thumb any self respecting web admin will have www in the Host segment of a url and have that point to A machine or AN IP address (even a pool of adresses, if need be.) of a load balanced cluster. Internetworking 101! dumbass!
"emerge phrack-all"
Or, for alternatives, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=phrack
Ah, I'll stick to 2600, I think. I've read a bit of Phrack, and I've always noticed that they're more focused on hacker community than on actual hacking. I mean hell PWN, the general attitude, some of the content of the articles... Aside from one, maybe two notable exceptions, their articles aren't terribly informative (IP Spoofing De-mystified was a good read when they printed it; you can still find copies of the article all over the web). Besides some nostalgic hacker will probably acquire the license, or otherwise reproduce the magazine in about 10 to 15 years anyway.
Anyone remember The Wacko Cracko Brothers who where supposed to have relaunched TAP and crush Phrack? Nineteen later Phrack is still on the verge of disappearing.
It was a hell of a ride. Randy, Craig and John (Forest Ranger) were good friends. I hope they are doing well.
Another poster already said it, now most of the things we wrote about would be considered terrorism by the same folks who (oops) missed the REAL terrorists and later found that invoking the "T" word gets press coverage and unlimited funding from Congress.
As long as there are secrets there will be a group of adolescents who will find it. Whether they call it "Phrack" or not is less important than sharing the information.
Hats off to the contributors who probably had no idea that Metal Shop Private would sort of live on for almost two decades.
The hacker formerly known as Data Line.
I think it's fair to say that Slashdot is the graveyard of Phrack's 'rebel without a cause' hacker mentality.
Basically, anyone working in network security, programming, or anyone with cell phone expertise to the point where they could write an article for Phrack, is probably browsing Slashdot right now from their workplace.
When all of the pale-faced, Kool-Aid moustached, D&Ders realized they could make six figures working for the good guys, all of the old 'zines and basically the whole "scene" died.
The Phrackers of yesteryear are now the moms and dads dropping their kids off to school on the outskirts of the planned community they live in.
Long live the anti-social hacker who did it for the thrill and for the knowledge that he or she was smart enough to fool 'em all.