Do a bit better research. It stands for Phrack World News in this context. I also read Phrack back in the day as well. How about trying to search through all t

Do a bit better research. It stands for Phrack World News in this context. I also read Phrack back in the day as well. How about trying to search through all the Phrack articles to find the use of the word "pwn" that doesn't refer to Phrack World News? Spoiler alert: you won't find any usage of "pwn" or "pwned" until well past 2000. If it was so much part of hacker culture you would have seen a reference in the earlier articles, but you don't.