What Happened to Phrack? 102
A worried Anonymous Coward asks: "Remember phrack; the ever irrepressible hacker journal. Their site seems to be down. Does anyone know what happened to them? Phrack was a tradition. I remember the times I used to pour on the articles dissecting every bit of information. To see it go makes me sad." Pinging the primary domain name server for phrack.com also returned no results. Have they dropped off of the face of the 'net, never to be seen again?
Re:Looks like they're up to issue 56 (Score:1)
it made it to at least 55... (Score:1)
SCAM (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
As I write this the links to the issues are broken due to a MySQL error. However, the FTP archives work fine.
ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/ [infonexus.com]
Re:Looks like they're up to issue 56 (Score:1)
Of course, the absolute best site for getting a nostalgia rush from the old BBS/Zine scene is textfiles.com [textfiles.com]. Just the other day, I ran a search on the handle of one of my co-workers, and lo and behold, turned up some Zine writing for an old hax0r group on textfiles.com. Good for some laughs!
Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
> > I say summer of 1995. Basically USENET's commuliative quallity halved that summer.
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> Windows 95. Dial-up networking. Bundled TCP/IP stack. Everybody and
> their dog could get on the internet with a few clicks.
Or as we old-farts like to call it: The September That Never Ended [tuxedo.org].
It's just that it took a couple of years for September to catch up with alt.2600.
cannon fodder (Score:2)
more cannon fodder for the slashdot effect...
another mirror for the phrack archive is here [2600.net]
you can find up to issue 52
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
That was indeed the dark time - it was like AOL rolled the gant rock from in front of the cave and the crazies ran out in a giant herd. I've always refered to it as "the September that never ended."
AOL cuss-kiddies yelling about newsgroups they didn't agree with or endlessly asking to be "unsubcribed" from different news groups... sheesh.
The joke that best sums that time up:
Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:One
And me too!
Me Too!
And Me toO!
Me too!
*SIGH*
=tkk
Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
Re:But even writing articles on bombmaking is lega (Score:1)
Either way, Phrack isn't gone, it's just in another of its infamous 19-months-between-issues periods.
Why? (Score:1)
What's with these AskSlashdot's? (Score:5)
Then people can respond with a variety of solutions to the problem. This can provide a wealth of information to the person asking the question, as well as other interested parties.
This question (and a few other recent ones) asks something that probably could have easily been answered with a quick web search. Not only that, but the answer isn't really something that requires a community response.
"Where's X?"
"It's over there"
"Oh."
It's not that I am bitter that this guy asked this question. I am bitter because we miss out other questions with potentially more interesting answers.
Domain Info for Phrack.com (Score:1)
Re:SCAM (Score:1)
Some Phrack Info (Score:1)
Rock 'n Roll, Not Pop 'n Soul
Re:SCAM (Score:1)
another link (Score:1)
Re:another link (Score:1)
Beware of _Anarchist's Cookbook_ (Score:2)
I strongly recommend against trying any of the recipies in the _Anarchist's Cookbook_. They tend to have dangerous errors or omissions.
Example: The nitroglycerine recipie neglects aparatus and processing steps necessary to keep the reaction running cool enough that it doesn't blow up during manufacture. (I understand that the original inventor of nitro blew himself up, and the compound he was working on was reconstructed - much more carefully - from the surviving fragments of his lab notes.)
Considerably less likely to kill you are the recipies in the reprints of the US military manuals on improvised munitions (available at most gun shows).
Reminder: The BATF is in charge of seeing that anybody who actually TRIES the recipies in these books (without filling out forms, acquiring government approvals, and paying applicable taxes) is treated harshly. And "The Revenooers" are somewhat gung-ho about their job (as they demonstrated at Waco TX.)
Why it's down (Score:2)
Of course it's down, it was linked to on the slashdot front page!
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Re:Sold out , just like l0pht (sorry for mudge) (Score:1)
-weld
Re:Maybe it just crashed? (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
Am I wrong?
Re:What's with these AskSlashdot's? (Score:1)
Re:karma crap? (Score:1)
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It's a
Current Phrack Website (Score:1)
One other mirror site (Score:4)
If you want to get a good glimpse at the earlier days of computer "hacking", this is a good place to start. I especially like the "hack" to open a Master combination lock. I hope this helps a little.
It's up, but it's not (Score:2)
And as to those of you conspiracy theorists who think that this is Operation Sundevil reincarnate, I remind you that the site changed hosts, there was no government conspiracy. Explore before you claim that the sky is falling. "I mean, that's the only reason it could have happened." Err, no, it was quite obviously not.
Re:Has happened more than once... (Score:2)
lastfoot.com is gone too (Score:1)
Anyone know what happened there? No notifications or anything, just *poof*, gone.
That Reminds Me. (Score:1)
phrack's phucked (Score:1)
So the website is down... (Score:2)
phrack on palm (Score:1)
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Re:phrack (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
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Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
Will! He went by the nick of "Voyager". He was so fun to troll. He wrote, hands-down, some of the funniest flames I've ever read (back when flaming on usenet was an artform). My friend Chris (Y-Windoze, now at nsa.org [nsa.org]) trolled Will about Phrack (there was a running joke that Will had stopped being the FAQ maintainer so he could edit Phrack). Will replied with something along the lines of "Y-Windoze, like so many of this year's freshman, is finally allowed to release his inner child. Unfortunately for us, his inner child is a butthole."
Just to show that there weren't any hard feelings, Will and Chris Grogan (aka Eric Bloodaxe, then editor of Phrack) gave money ($1.35!) to help get Chris (Y-Win) out of jail when he got arrested at summercon [summercon.org].
hymie
Re:phrack on palm (Score:1)
This is a short script I wrote as a one shot deal to submit phrack to memoware.com, but memoware admin wouldn't take them without permission from phrack. Its not the greatest script as I only used it once. Hopefully it still works, I havent used it on awhile.
#
# Requires wget, etc...
# The phrack archive 45 seems to be mostly empty.
# This was originally written to convert the files for
# memoware.com but I could net get ahold of the authors
# of phrack to submit the archives. So, I guess everyone
# need to download and convert them themselves.
declare -i COUNTER=0
cd
while [ $COUNTER -lt 54 ]; do
if [ $COUNTER -lt 9 ]; then
COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1]
wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack0$COU
tar xvfz phrack0$COUNTER.tar.gz
cd phrack0$COUNTER
for f in p0$COUNTER*; do
iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f
done
zip
rm -f *
rmdir
cd
else
COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1]
wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack$COUN
tar xvfz phrack$COUNTER.tar.gz
cd phrack$COUNTER
for f in p$COUNTER*; do
iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f
done
zip
rm -f *
rmdir
cd
fi
done
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Nice website (Score:1)
Re:That Reminds Me. (Score:1)
Re:But even writing articles on bombmaking is lega (Score:1)
another Verizon tactic? (Score:1)
www.buymeaferrari.com [buymeaferrari.com]
This sounds a lot like SJ Games (Score:1)
The answer (Score:1)
Re:Maybe it just crashed? (Score:1)
what's your point?
phrack (Score:1)
Re:S2TD! (Score:1)
The fact that anyone would listen to the guy? I think sig11 needs to calm down a bit....
Simon
Has happened more than once... (Score:3)
Looks like they're up to issue 56 (Score:2)
My absolute favorite article is the one where they do the email around the world, using UUCP style routing, and bouncing around geographically stepping servers. Indeed a good time.
Anyone else have a favorite article?
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Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
Maybe it just crashed? (Score:2)
They not only moved... (Score:2)
Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in
hehe I love seing this kinda stuff!
Re:It's up, but it's not (Score:2)
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Phrack moved here (Score:1)
Re:phrack (Score:1)
(i.e. the ratio of "how to make a firebomb out of your grandmother's shoe" articles has steadily declined.)
my only hope is that they can come out in a more consistent and timely matter.
keep up the good work route.
Re:New address (Score:3)
Gosh, and I figured they just got slashdotted ;-)
phrack was dead allready (Score:1)
But since 55, it became a NO GO.
though I allways liked the submission column.
slashdotted.. (Score:1)
Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in
No articles match your query.
Re:S2TD! (Score:1)
<a href="http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_v
http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs_Ta
<br><br>
If that doesn't turn your stomache, I don't know what would.
Another mirror of all issues of Phrack (Score:2)
All issues are there, in both compressed and uncompressed plaintext.
http://the.wiretapped.net/security /te xtfiles/ [wiretapped.net] also contains a decent slab of other stuff that might be of interest...
TEXTFILES.COM has all the Phracks Online (Score:1)
This Phrack Section [textfiles.com] is one of several dozen that I keep about different Electronic Magazines of the last 25 years on the site.
Re:S2TD! (Score:2)
http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs_Taco
If that doesn't turn your stomache, I don't know what would. As long as I'm posting more crap, here's an interesting conversation on Slashdot itself (set your threshold down to view it though).
Thread of doom [slashdot.org]!
Actually, I left in my settings so you can view it.
Re:Nice website (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:5)
John
Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
Are there any Best Of... collections on the net anyplace still alive? The 'Hall of Flame' died years ago it seems, and I haven't found any replacements
Re:missing url (Score:1)
[OT] Re:lastfoot.com is gone too (Score:2)
treke
Re:Has happened more than once... (Score:2)
Textfiles (Score:2)
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
Who's Invited: Calling all hackers, phreakers, phrackers, feds, 2600 kids, cops, security professionals, Y-WiND0z3, r00t kids club, press, groupies, chicks, conf whores and k0d3 kids. And everyone else.
Anyway, this stuff is interesting, kinda like ancient history for me, I was actually probably one of the lamers that bugged you guys so much, but IANALA (I am not a lamer anymore).
Re:They've only moved (Score:1)
Re:Why? (Score:1)
And you get what the last jackass got...as Fred and Method Man say..
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Re:karma crap? (Score:1)
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
phrack (Score:2)
Vote for freedom! [harrybrowne2000.org]
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Re:What's with these AskSlashdot's? (Score:1)
While, in the present climate, where HPA is equated with script-kiddies, and being 31337 is akin to being a witch in colonial Salem, few openly admit it, many hackers (!= Cracker) were, during their younger days hackers (== Crackers). I grew up in a house that had an active pirate BBS running in it, and still remember the day I said "Daddy... what's a blue-box?"
With this in mind, had phrack actually, and finally died, this would fairly significant news.
Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world, and ppl don't look at search engines, and the editors don't check up on stories, so we're left to sit around and bitch about it.
Which is almost as much fun as reading actual news.
Geeze people... (Score:2)
I just called him... he should be on in a moment to comment.
New address (Score:5)
They've only moved (Score:5)
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I wrote the play & still own the script
Hmm, it seems that corner of the net is gone... (Score:1)
It would seem that Mike Emke and Greg Pierce either they are having problems with their entire network (ack) or something else, more troublesome, is up.
Re:They've only moved (Score:4)
This was back in the day when alt.hackers still was "self-moderated" meaning you had to add a specific header saying "X-Moderator-Approved:" or something in order to get your post to propigate across USENET. And you had better include your "ObHack" or you'd get flamed. (Some where quite involved. Like hacking a garage door opener to your beer refridgerator to open the door and deliver a beer to you.)
This was also back back in the day when alt.2600 actually had a resident population that new stuff, as opposed to being just 5cr1pT k1Ddi3z. There were two guys on alt.2600 that new the most. Will something (the FAQ maintainer) and route@infonexus.com. (I forgot his email address but his FTP site was something at ftp.cdrom.com/.../route
I haven't thought about that guy in years.
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The Guy Formerlly Known as "Coolness Incarnate"
(Now I'll have to track down The Bob(c) and my walk down memory lane will be complete.)
(Oh and incase you're wondering when alt.2600 took the nosie dive into pure shit, I say summer of 1995. Basically USENET's commuliative quallity halved that summer. Don't know exactly why though. It was after the AOL-USENET fiasco.)
Re:New address (Score:2)
(*phewph* Glad it's still up)
Re:They've only moved (Score:3)
Windows 95. Dial-up networking. Bundled TCP/IP stack. Everybody and their dog could get on the internet with a few clicks. I don't blame the increase in the signal/noise ratio on Microsoft or Windows per se, merely on the ease of use.
Re:Maybe it just crashed? (Score:1)
Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in
/var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166
Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in
/var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167
The MySQL server and the Apache server reside on different machines so there could be any number of problems. It will be fixed soon. There are mirror sites, use them. Please stop emailing me about it, there is nothing I can do myself about this problem.
new link doesn't work (Score:1)
Incidentally the MySQL server for that site is 63.145.226.10, and phrack.infonexus.com is 63.145.226.228. So it looks like the MySQL server was just for that mirror.
However, the front page at phrack.infonexus.com lists www.phrack.com as the home page for phrack. (and it says they had 0.56)
The DNS record for phrack.com is owned by NS1.DATALENS.COM which seems to be down, so does www.detalens.com so this could just be an ISP issue?
Re:That Reminds Me. (Score:1)
Re:SCAM (Score:2)
Re:One other mirror site (Score:1)
One of the more useful articles I've ever read. I never bother memorizing my lock combinations anymore, I forget them after only a few weeks if I don't use them, but I've remembered this technique for I don't know how many years. Works every time. :)
What ever happened to goatse.cx? (Score:1)
Re:S2TD! (Score:1)
Well, not yet.
Some improvements. I see little point in anonymous cowarding. It's no more anonymous that a user account with fake sign-up details, and you can't have a two-way conversation with a faceless user. You never know who you're talking to. Anonymous coward is a dickhead.
Meta moderation is silly. What do we do to deal with bad meta-moderation? meta-meta-moderation? then meta-meta-meta.. oh please. You're putting more sellotape on your dyke*1.
*1 no, wait, I mean dam.
Flashback (Swedish "underground" site) taken down! (Score:1)
Flashback has an underground-news e-zine mailed to over 100.000 users, and has been hosting controversial sites on their webhotel that other ISP's do not dare to keep...
I know phrack is still up, but I feel this is a valid point in this discussion...
SQL Server Down? (Score:1)
Re:They've only moved (Score:2)
Bit of a stretch, that.
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and tomshardware ? (Score:1)
FYI (Score:1)
FYI, alt.hackers [alt.hackers] is still pseudo-moderated on majority of servers. And you'll still get flamed for not including an ObHack.
Re:S2TD! (Score:1)
Doesn't he realize what an egomaniacal idiot that makes him look like?
Re:phrack (Score:4)
Includes up to issue 49.
Re:S2TD! (Score:1)
Could just be broken (Score:2)
EFF used to host Computer Underground Digest arch (Score:3)