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After 20 Years, Phrack's Final Issue Looms

Posted by timothy on from the don't-renew-your-subscription dept.

akahige writes "According to BBC News, the legendary phreaking/hacker magazine is set to close up shop after the publication of its forthcoming issue, no. 63 (which will be hardbound in commemoration). The editorial staff is stepping down, and no one has expressed an interest in taking up the reins. Bruce Sterling is quoted as saying, 'I'd be surprised to see the thing stay dead. They've got no fixed address and anonymous contributors.' If you've ever wanted to helm a magazine, here's your chance!" (See this earlier story as well.)

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  1. Help by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd take over the magazine, but I'd have no phreaking clue how. Any advice?

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    1. Re: Help by Duke+Machesne · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, you're going to want to use the left wire on your green box as the right wire on your handset. Dial '0' and then fire off the bat signal.

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    2. Re:Help by GraemeDonaldson · · Score: 2, Funny

      You misspelled "phorking" and "phast".

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  2. laughable by halgorithm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hacker magazines don't die; they get detained by the Department of Homeland Security...

  3. I hope it's... by Viraptor · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope it's only part of next issue - "messing with media for fun and profit"...

  4. Re:Dupes by m50d · · Score: 3, Funny
    I know calling dupe is a favourite past-time on slashdot, but how about we reserve it for when it is actually a dupe?

    You're new here, aren't you?

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  5. Memmories... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This post reminds me the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

    Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

  6. Re:Hacker mag quality decline by stanmann · · Score: 2, Funny

    The letters are my favorite part, especially this format

    Dear 2600
    I w4nt to brake my skewls computer system, I no how to format a hard drive and run a r00tk1t. pls hlp me be 1337.

    00bar h4k3r.


    Dear klewless n00b
    If you really wish to destroy, use an axe. Hacking is about learning and building.

    Ed.

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