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Phrack Magazine (1985-2016)
- walrus01 8y agoThat's amazing people thought it would be a good idea to send MS Word .doc files to phrack.
- batlegdotcom 8y agoVirus Total - cheap to access downloads.
- eruditely 8y agovery polarizing website, posting many interviews with antisocial hackers(still cool though) but also more nicely minded ones.
- poisonarena 8y agopolarizing to whom? not understanding your take.
- robarr 8y agoWhen “Hacking for fun and profit” meant more fun than profit.
- eb0la 8y agoAntisocial people who started their own infosec companies and now are high level executives in multinationals that bought them. It's funny how time (and life) changes people... from the outside.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoYou forgot Apple Woz was a Phreak back in the day
- emersonrsantos 8y agoCaution - very addictive, and glorious obsolete tech. Also full of mystery. First time I've read one was 1995 on some BBS.
- dfsegoat 8y ago97ish here... re: BBS' - still have my US Robotics 28.8 external modem...
- _0ffh 8y agoUSR? Reeeee! (Zyxel user here ;-) My /first/ modem though was a "Lightspeed 1200" from some company who's name I forget. You can guess how many bps that one could sling...
- wiz21c 8y agoUSR, that was the rolls royce of modem back then. Aaaahh the sound it made.
- squarefoot 8y agoAnd the fortune it cost. My Amiga based local BBS had a pile of them and most online fellows had one while I couldn't even afford a Zyxel but had to connect through a terrible 2400bps unknown name one. Thankfully it had at least Zmodem which was almost new then. Good ol' times...
- C1sc0cat 8y agoI can recall when 2400 was the new hotness and getting a hooky prototype 2400 from a colleague at Telecom Gold. I think he used on of them on his FIDO BBS (Arkham Asylum)
- 1001101 8y agoThat was the HST modulation training. Gets me every time. Wish I still had my courier dual just for the sound ;)
- saldivarcher 8y agoThese are awesome. :)
- fouc 8y agoe-zines that were transmitted over dial up modems via BBSes back in the days before WWW took off seemed so deliciously subversive. One night I came across an e-zine that shared a BBS phone number for my city. I made several attempts before giving up. An hour later cops showed up at my door. It turned out I was phoning a secondary number for 911. I got pranked pretty good!
- tezzer 8y agoThe "Paper Feed" section has 2 articles from 2018 and 2 from 2017. The most recent, "20 Years of Escaping the Java Sandbox" [1] is exactly what 16 year old me loved about phrack back in the day. [1] http://www.phrack.org/papers/escaping_the_java_sandbox.html http://www.phrack.org/papers/escaping_the_java_sandbox.html
- batlegdotcom 8y agoBusiness lines: I read their Ruby article since we had some of it in a build system. It was the same of type confusion like in a Windows kernel exploit of user defined structs. Throat Clearing: This is why John Carmack likes static types? Non-essential: Who knows, we had to bear bait him with wrong quotes last time. Heroes move on, and no one collects hacker action figurines any more except of Death Ring, where Undertaker threw John Holmes through the floor of the PKD television after JFK stopped imitating the library of dance cadets. &c. The mind approach is an illusion due to integral of simulation. Thus Von Neumann's infinite computation at the end of heat death through particles smaller than Plank length are not Candy Mountain but the pigs aren't the ones on standby, the paw phone is. And who hasn't got the b-log of a-log saying to microtarget advertising. Even then you get the CTR which is a required KPI.
- jdp23 8y agoMuch of the early work on buffer overrun exploitation was published in Phrack. The article Brandon Baker and I did for IEEE Security and Privacy had a sidebar on "Nontraditional literature on buffer overruns" that's got some greatest hits like AlephOne’s Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit from 1996 [1] and The Advanced return-into-lib(c) Exploits from 2001 [2]. Over the years, a surprising number of people have told me that this was their favorite part of the article! [1] https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=49&a=14 https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=49&a=14 [2] https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=58&a=4 https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=58&a=4
- nigifabio 8y agoIs there a today equivalent ?
- executesorder66 8y agoPoC||GTFO https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
- jor-el 8y agoPersonally for me PoC||GTFO fills up the void. They have some good articles and explaining in very friendly way. [0] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
- emptybits 8y agoIndeed! Reading those issues, for me, is a stream of shock and awe but always learning because the contributors generally give sufficient instructions to perform/confirm their achievements yourself. Example ... about halfway through Issue 0x02 it is casually mentioned, "You will find by running ‘qemu-system-i386 -fda pocorgtfo02.pdf’ that the PDF file you are reading is also a bootable disk image." o_O !
- AndyMcConachie 8y agoPoC || GTFO
- amenghra 8y agotry this: 1. clone https://github.com/fdiskyou/Zines 2. go offline for a week (or longer) and enjoy the read!
- nyounker 8y agoWARNING DO NOT DOWNLOAD: FILES INCLUDED IN ZIP FILES! FILE HIT LIST: {HEX}perl.ircbot.Arabhack.47 : /home/$USER/Zines/ZF0/zf0 4.txt {HEX}php.cmdshell.avi.209 : /home/$USER/Zines/ZF0/zf0 5.txt {CAV}Win.Worm.SomeFool-32 : /home/$USER/Zines/h0no/h0no.txt {HEX}php.pktflood.oey.671 : /home/$USER/Zines/owned and exposed/2.txt {YARA}php_backdoor_php : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-3.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.U-83 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-5.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.Flatei-3 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-7fe.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.P98M-1 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-4s.zip {CAV}Win.Worm.rb2-1 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-8.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.VirTools-1 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-1.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.Flatei-3 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-7.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.U-78 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-6.zip {CAV}Win.Trojan.VirTools-2 : /home/$USER/Zines/29a/29a-2.zip {YARA}telnet_cgi : /home/$USER/Zines/uninformed/3.6.txt {CAV}Win.Trojan.Rootkit-133 : /home/$USER/Zines/uninformed/code.3.6.tgz {CAV}Win.Downloader.51998-1 : /home/$USER/Zines/phrack/65/10.txt {HEX}exp.linux.setuid.6 : /home/$USER/Zines/phrack/61/3.txt {HEX}php.malware.magento.578 : /home/$USER/Zines/phrack/62/6.txt {CAV}Html.Trojan.Shellcode-19 : /home/$USER/Zines/HITB/HITB-Ezine-Issue-001.pdf ===============================================
- wfn 8y agoWell yes, the zines will have a bunch of shellcode and command shell scripts and (from the looks of it) code of some trojans and the like. This will get flagged by AVs, etc.; but that's to be expected, really. :)
- greguu 8y agoMemories come back of the time when Phrack Magazine and digital copies of The Anarchist Cookbook were shared via IPXCOPY.EXE or floppies at 10Base2 LAN parties or other scene gatherings. Interesting ISDN hacks and also ntpwc.c and other things were published in Phrack back then. It's almost like looking at a vintage car magazine now.
- veeceecee 8y agoAll this BBS talk takes me back to about 10 years ago, when I had a business encounter with a consultant engineer from IBM in Chicago. After our business meeting, we went to lunch and this gentleman dropped me off at my place of work in his car (IIRC, it was a Toyota Avalon with white leather interior). We had some small talk during the short drive - about some of my pet projects at the time and what I was doing outside of work, etc. He was very encouraging and appeared very curious. I appreciated that. Little did I know at the time that I was in the presence of greatness and driving with a legend. He was Ward Christensen. I was so totally ignorant of his awesomeness that I'm ashamed. And so embarrassed now thinking about how vain I was talking to him about my barely getting my feet wet with Android application development. :$ That was my only encounter with Ward. I think I connected the dots a few months later when I read about him in 2600. (@Ward - If you are reading this, hi!! And my apologies for my ignorance).
- dpwm 8y ago> I was so totally ignorant of his awesomeness that I'm ashamed. I would speculate it's likely it made for a much more interesting conversation for both of you than if you had been aware of his accomplishments. You also got a much more interesting anecdote as a result of that. FWIW I hadn't heard of him until your comment. I suspect for every one person I have heard of there's at least a hundred I haven't heard of whose accomplishments are no less great. Unless you are a narcissist, it must really suck to be so famous that you can never have a conversation with anybody in a symmetric fashion.
- batlegdotcom 8y agoI haven't been able to buy a working voltmeter in this zip code. Not sure what is wrong with the instructions despite using Home Depot. I have read the Army Survival Guide. I am looking for 4 hour work week but my lawyer and bother in law said everyone signs non-competes that last for 2 years. As pro se in person I would just say indentured servitude is illegal in the 13 colonies. I am a narcissist. You may delete this comment. I will just file for stored and useless (unemployment) like everyone else. -SKT
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- robarr 8y agomany moons ago, i was able to escape the restricted shell of the first internet provider in my country, type the magical incantation cat etc/passwd and watch the file scroll on my screen. Then panic, exit the shell, make some dumb gopher search for my class. Never felt so alive until i ... for the first time with my girlfriend :-) Thank you phrack, could not have done it without you! (i mean the first thing, Phrack was good but not that good!)
- batlegdotcom 8y agoReminds me of HOW0x16uck.TXT in 8 bit.
- eb0la 8y agoI remember reading SET (Saqueadores Edicion Tecnica) in Spanish alonside with Prack while in college. Just found out they also have a website. Enjoy it: http://www.set-ezine.org/ http://www.set-ezine.org/
- misiogames 8y agomama mia, que recuerdos! gracias por el link!
- dagw 8y agoThink I can safely say that without Phrack I wouldn't have gotten as into computers as I did and never would have had this successful career that followed. Thank you Phrack.
- grzaks 8y agoI have p63 in paper! https://imgur.com/a/x01WJzm https://imgur.com/a/x01WJzm
- e19293001 8y agoAfter reading the "smashing the stack for fun and profit", I got interested in reverse engineering. The most fun tutorial was from lena151[0]. ARTeam had published several papers for beginners and advanced reverse engineers. Deroko who was a member of the ARTeam had published an article about PEB hooking[2] and was sited from phrack[1]. I miss hacking and reverse engineering. I would like to go back to those times if time would allow me to do so. Sometimes, I end up reading this article[3] again and again. [0] - https://tuts4you.com/e107_plugins/download/download.php?list.17 https://tuts4you.com/e107_plugins/download/download.php?list... [1] - http://www.phrack.org/issues/65/10.html http://www.phrack.org/issues/65/10.html [2] - https://www.exploit-db.com/ezines/kr5hou2zh4qtebqk.onion/ARTeam/ARTeam.Ezine.Number2.pdf https://www.exploit-db.com/ezines/kr5hou2zh4qtebqk.onion/ART... [3] - http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
- gasull 8y agoPhrack hasn't published a zine since 2016. Is there an equivalent today to Phrack?
- CalRobert 8y agoMaybe POCorGTFO? https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
- rashthedude 8y agoI am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike!
- loydb 8y ago:)
- loydb 8y agoRandy and Craig (Taran King and Knight Lightning) did an amazing job with Phrack. It was an honor to write for them, and I almost never see them mentioned when people talk about the zine. The zine, and the St. Louis Summercons, were hugely influential. I'm still friends with a bunch of folks from that scene. If it weren't for a timely late night phone call from Craig needing some more content for an issue, the Conscience of a Hacker would probably not have been written.
- SuperPaintMan 8y agoThank you for writing that. Those words spoke deeply to me and many others that wander these halls even so many years on. It is odd to look back on years later and happen across the author. I hope life is finding you well!
- tptacek 8y agoThe same is sort of true of the mid-late '90s Phrack scene; I was skimming through some of the front matter on those issues and noticing how many people in the greets sections were people I'm still in touch with. Of course, this stuff got lucrative for us in a way that I'm not sure it was in the late '80s. But you guys had more fun than we did.
- xtracto 8y agoHowdy crap The Mentor itself... your Hacker Manifesto marked me as a kid in the 80s. It gave meaning to my life growing in a remote Mexican city where few people understood about computers. Thank you :)
- mindcrime 8y agoWhile we're talking "old skool" hackerdom, does anybody know/remember Voyager, of the "Hacker's Haven" BBS? I spent so many hours on that site back in the mid to late 90's, making the long-distance dial-up call by beige-boxing off a COCOT phone in a gas-station parking lot, in the wee hours of the night, hoping no cops would pull up and wonder what was going on with the super-long phone cable running from my car to the payphone. For anybody who wasn't around back then, a "beige box" wasn't actually a "box" involving tone generation like a blue box or a red box. It just meant clipping onto the red and green wires in the demarc box and connecting to an RJ-14 plug to plug into a phone. It worked well with COCOT's (Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephones) because the phone line for a COCOT was just a regular line that you could make long distance calls on. The mechanism that made it a pay-phone was all contained inside the phone itself, as opposed to a "telephone company payphone" where the actual line itself was special. Thos were the ones you could use a red-box on, to simulate dropping quarters into the phone.
- platz 8y agoI had fun thinking about what the different color 'boxes' were e.g. blue boxes, beige boxes etc. I don't think I ever used a blue box, but I messed with payphones and tapped into landlines pretty easily
- rootsudo 8y agoI wish i photocopied the ones I had. :( I just sold them on ebay.
- h0h0h0 8y agoRead this all the time as a kid. This was the best. Thanks for making my life in the middle of nowhere infinitely more interesting. You showed me what technology really was.