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Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for hackers that has been around since November 17,
1985. The magazine is open for contributions by anyone who desires to publish remarkable works or express original ideas on the topics of interest. The articles of Phrack are related to
security,
hack (technology slang), phreaking, lock picking, anarchism, cryptography, spying, radio broadcasting, coding,
Conspiracy theory, and world
news.
On
May 27, 2007. Issue 64 has been released by the new staff of Phrack, "The Circle of Lost Hackers".
Origins
The original editors of Phrack were hackers with the handles
Taran King and Knight Lightning, and it was originally published on the
Metal Shop Bulletin board system. It was the first ezine.
Quality
Phrack is especially popular due to the general high standard of the releases compared to other underground zines, articles such as
Elias Levy's 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' and The Mentor's '
Hacker Manifesto'. It also kept track of various well known hackers and hacker groups such as l0pht,
P.H.I.R.M., and DoD.
Appellation
There is only one official Phrack magazine, but the name
Phrack being a symbol for the whole hacking underground, it is often reused by alternative groups in the hope of giving more credibility to their work or movement. However, none of these groups produce material reaching the higher standardsof the official Phrack magazine. Phrack magazine does not belong to any particular group of hackers, but aims at being the recipient for the whole hacking underground community.
Content
Phrack is made of stand-alone files of very technical or counter-cultural content. Other regular columns are present in every issues of Phrack, such as:
- Phrack Prophile : The presentation of a very influential character from the hacking underground.
- Phrack Loopback : Answers to the most original (or stupid) emails received by the phrack staff.
- Phrack World News : A compilation of reports on the latest counter-culture events.
- International Scene : A compilation of testimonies from hackers all around the world focusing on (inter)national-scale activities.
Phrack also has introduced new columns more recently :
- Underground retrospective : A non-technical file about the evolution of the hacking underground spirit.
- The art of exploitation : A come-back on the internals of a very popular exploit (a software used to break into computer networks).
- Hacking your brain : A new column dedicated to technology-related body/mind hardcore experiences.
Phrack is not restricted to these columns. New kinds of content may appear in future issues.
Operation Sundevil
The popular
Hacker Manifesto, an inspiration to young hackers since the
1980s, was published in the 7th issue of Phrack. An article in the 24th issue relating to the workings of
Enhanced 911 emergency response systems played a major part in the United States Secret Service raids called
Operation Sundevil and featured in Bruce Sterling's book
The Hacker Crackdown. Phrack also showed up in the two part
Operation Moon Witch storyline, published in 1992's
The Hacker Files by DC Comics, a story based on Operation Sundevil.
An end?
In 2005, it was announced that Phrack was to come to an end, with the 63rd issue as its last. To commemorate Phrack's final appearance, this issue was to be a hardback edition, released simultaneously at the
DEF CON and What the Hack conventions on July 29. An e-zine version of the release followed on August 1. The European printer for the hardcopies of Phrack to be distributed at DEF CON refused to fulfill the order once they realized that they were printing a Hacking book. Two University of Arizona students filled the gap and printed 200 copies of Phrack in time for the convention.
However, the Phrack staff announced in their latest #63 release that the magazine will continue to run, with a new, younger generation of hackers leading it. A new issue of Phrack was eventually released on May 28, 2007 by a group of editors referring to themselves as "
The Circle of Lost Hackers."
External links
Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for
hackers that has been around since November 17, 1985. The magazine is open for contributions by anyone who desires to publish remarkable works or express original ideas on the topics of interest. The articles of Phrack are related to
security, hack (technology slang),
phreaking, lock picking,
anarchism, cryptography,
spying, radio broadcasting, coding, Conspiracy theory, and world news.
On
May 27,
2007. Issue 64 has been released by the new staff of Phrack, "The Circle of Lost Hackers".
Origins
The original editors of Phrack were hackers with the handles Taran King and Knight Lightning, and it was originally published on the Metal Shop Bulletin board system. It was the first
ezine.
Quality
Phrack is especially popular due to the general high standard of the releases compared to other underground zines, articles such as Elias Levy's 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' and The Mentor's 'Hacker Manifesto'. It also kept track of various well known hackers and hacker groups such as l0pht,
P.H.I.R.M., and DoD.
Appellation
There is only one official Phrack magazine, but the name
Phrack being a symbol for the whole hacking underground, it is often reused by alternative groups in the hope of giving more credibility to their work or movement. However, none of these groups produce material reaching the higher standardsof the official Phrack magazine. Phrack magazine does not belong to any particular group of hackers, but aims at being the recipient for the whole hacking underground community.
Content
Phrack is made of stand-alone files of very technical or counter-cultural content. Other regular columns are present in every issues of Phrack, such as:
- Phrack Prophile : The presentation of a very influential character from the hacking underground.
- Phrack Loopback : Answers to the most original (or stupid) emails received by the phrack staff.
- Phrack World News : A compilation of reports on the latest counter-culture events.
- International Scene : A compilation of testimonies from hackers all around the world focusing on (inter)national-scale activities.
Phrack also has introduced new columns more recently :
- Underground retrospective : A non-technical file about the evolution of the hacking underground spirit.
- The art of exploitation : A come-back on the internals of a very popular exploit (a software used to break into computer networks).
- Hacking your brain : A new column dedicated to technology-related body/mind hardcore experiences.
Phrack is not restricted to these columns. New kinds of content may appear in future issues.
Operation Sundevil
The popular
Hacker Manifesto, an inspiration to young hackers since the
1980s, was published in the 7th issue of Phrack. An article in the 24th issue relating to the workings of
Enhanced 911 emergency response systems played a major part in the
United States Secret Service raids called
Operation Sundevil and featured in
Bruce Sterling's book
The Hacker Crackdown. Phrack also showed up in the two part
Operation Moon Witch storyline, published in 1992's The Hacker Files by DC Comics, a story based on Operation Sundevil.
An end?
In 2005, it was announced that Phrack was to come to an end, with the 63rd issue as its last. To commemorate Phrack's final appearance, this issue was to be a hardback edition, released simultaneously at the DEF CON and
What the Hack conventions on
July 29. An e-zine version of the release followed on August 1. The European printer for the hardcopies of Phrack to be distributed at DEF CON refused to fulfill the order once they realized that they were printing a Hacking book. Two University of Arizona students filled the gap and printed 200 copies of Phrack in time for the convention.
However, the Phrack staff announced in their latest #63 release that the magazine will continue to run, with a new, younger generation of hackers leading it. A new issue of Phrack was eventually released on May 28,
2007 by a group of editors referring to themselves as "
The Circle of Lost Hackers."
External links
Phrack Magazine ::.
Phrack staff website. ... Phrack #66 Call for paper: an evil number for an bad-ass issue
Phrack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phrack is an underground ezine written by and for hackers first published November 17, 1985. [1] Described by Fyodor as "the best, and by far the longest running hacker zine," [2 ...
Phrack Magazine ::.
Phrack staff website. ... Copyleft 1985-2007, Phrack Magazine.
Phrack issues
Phrack Phrack, HTML-ized by Ban. These are the first three issues of Phrack an "ASCII-Mag" for Phreaks and Hackers, Published in a new format to make them easier to read.
Phrack Magazine ::.
Phrack staff website. ... Copyleft 1985-2007, Phrack Magazine.
Hacker magazine shuts up shop • The Register
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Phrack's closure worries security industry - ZDNet.co.uk
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