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PHRACK Final

Posted by Hemos on from the call-for-papers-and-so-much-more dept.

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.""

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  1. An extra bit for their issue counter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and we could have issues up to 127

  2. Re:WTF by incubuz1980 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use http://www.phrack.org/

    I hate it when you have to use "www".

  3. Re:Who? by diente · · Score: 5, Informative

    Man, they made really a lot of big things, "Smashing the stack for fun and profit" in Phrack 49, its maybe the bible for actual Exploits ( BoF ). Or the Fyodor paper for Remote OS Detection.... Those where great times. In fact i dont know a single actual publication that has that professional level. Those people are real security specialist. I'll miss that e-zine

  4. Gone....for the moment by Red+Moose · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 .......

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    1. Re:Gone....for the moment by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Interesting
      I wonder what happened to Taran King and Knight Lightning

      "Operation Sundevil", an attempt to crackdown on the Legion of Doom cracking and phreaking group, happened. Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning), was indicted, subjected to search and seizures by the US Secret Service, brought to a jury trial and finally had all charges dropped by the prosecution. He's kept a pretty low profile ever since, or at least has been a lot more careful with covering his tracks. Taran King appears to have been spooked and dropped out of the scene around the same time, or is also being a lot more careful.

      In any case, there doesn't seem to be much on the pair since the end of the crackdown started by Operation Sundevil in the early 1990's. Perhaps this "final" issue of Phrack should include a "Where are they now?" article on past editors and other once prominent members of the Phrack community. Then again, given the number of convictions that were successful, that's not very likely to make for a very upbeat article about hacking to go out on, is it?

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  5. Re:Acetylene Balloon Bomb by Husgaard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe it's because of articles like this that PHRACK is dead.
    No PHRACK is alive and asking for submissions.

    It is because of articles like this that PHRACK's readers are dead ;-)