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It's been years since I last read something from phrack, but I remember it being a huge inspiration to me back around their #50th issue. I was talking to a coup

It's been years since I last read something from phrack, but I remember it being a huge inspiration to me back around their #50th issue. I was talking to a couple of guys during dinner a few days ago (one of them antirez, of Redis fame) and we noted about how serendipitous it was that all 3 of us had a background on compsec and reconnected many years later in a conference. It's interesting to see that these things aren't dead and that people who care deeply about their craft (regardless of what craft that might be) actually succeed. I kinda wish today was a little more like the late 90s. Now that we're in 2010, though, I kinda wish this stuff was instapaper-able (I'm curious about what these guys are publishing these days). I know we're talking about Phrack, but there's no real reason why this looks and feels like 1986. (as an aside: .tar.gz link is dead. Was going to make a pdf version of this to put on the ipad.)

antirez 16y ago
Hello Fred :) Interesting that we both commented this actually, and the bottom line is, it is no longer 90s. This is not bad per se. But in 90s you could say, it's no longer 80s with the cool times of BBS, but now there is security that is the new underground. Now everything is still progressing in many ways, and even faster, but there is like the feeling there is no longer an "underground scene". I hope I'm wrong and that people in their 20s are experimenting what we experimented again.
- fredoliveira 16y ago
  Haha, hey Salvatore (serendipity! again!). Security is not so much an underground scene because everything is super easy to share (this is a good thing) - everyone has access to much more information than we did back in the day. That being said, I'm sure there's guys out there that are in "hunter-gatherer" mode like Melo talked about the other day. These people will hopefully be pushing the envelope in a few years time.
- jdp23 16y ago
  worry not. people in their teens and 20s are still experimenting -- it's just that the venues are different. i love Phrack's old-time look-and-feel, but yeah, with a little work they could make it a lot more accessible.
brianritchie 16y ago
The link is dead but you can manually download the TXT files from here : http://phrack.com/archives/67/ http://phrack.com/archives/67/

antirez 16y ago

Hello Fred :) Interesting that we both commented this actually, and the bottom line is, it is no longer 90s. This is not bad per se. But in 90s you could say, it's no longer 80s with the cool times of BBS, but now there is security that is the new underground. Now everything is still progressing in many ways, and even faster, but there is like the feeling there is no longer an "underground scene". I hope I'm wrong and that people in their 20s are experimenting what we experimented again.

fredoliveira 16y ago
Haha, hey Salvatore (serendipity! again!). Security is not so much an underground scene because everything is super easy to share (this is a good thing) - everyone has access to much more information than we did back in the day. That being said, I'm sure there's guys out there that are in "hunter-gatherer" mode like Melo talked about the other day. These people will hopefully be pushing the envelope in a few years time.
jdp23 16y ago
worry not. people in their teens and 20s are still experimenting -- it's just that the venues are different. i love Phrack's old-time look-and-feel, but yeah, with a little work they could make it a lot more accessible.

brianritchie 16y ago

The link is dead but you can manually download the TXT files from here : http://phrack.com/archives/67/ http://phrack.com/archives/67/