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Phrack 71
- M4v3R 2y agoFrom the Introduction: > After the past several decades of humanity putting all of its collective knowledge online, we are seeing more ways to prevent us from accessing it. This hits so hard, especially for someone who saw the Internet becoming this awesome, huge open library that everyone can access and contribute and then witnessing it being paywalled, drowned with ads and slop, monetized to oblivion, sometimes straight up disappear. It's heartbreaking.
- ghostway 2y agoadding to that, I currently see the internet as a "noise-first" kind of library, transformed from one that had little signal but where noise was sparse too at the same time, (some of) the awesome people are still here, and they're still doing amazing stuff :) EDIT: :)'d
- BiteCode_dev 2y ago*by the very same companies that made bank from the web openness.
- keyle 2y agoYes it's a very sad state of affairs. But like never before, the hacker spirit is more important than ever! Can't fix a bug unless you understand the code... Can't change the world unless you understand it.
- smartmic 2y agoThe whole introduction is great and hits the nail on the head. A hearty greeting also goes to all uncritical LLM apologists, whose sometimes brainless efforts and arguments do a disservice to freedom of information (and thus to humanity in the long term). Packaging free knowledge together with false information in an unsolicited and non-transparent manner and then selling it as the new saviour should bring all hackers to the barricades - thank you, Phrack, for speaking the truth!
- nujsii 2y ago[flagged]
- sunbum 2y agoWhat?
- chedabob 2y agoPretty fitting as I can't get on that site because it's marked as "Radicalization and Extremism" by SonicWall's content filter on our corporate firewall.
- bawolff 2y agoIn fairness, i can see how stuff like http://phrack.org/issues/7/6.html#article http://phrack.org/issues/7/6.html#article might fit that description. Early internet seems like a much less sanitized place.
- simula67 2y agoThe worst part of it is that the "true Internet" is probably still out there, but we can't find it anymore. The search engines have gotten way worse over the years and we no longer have good enough filters to ignore all the nonsense.
- asmr 2y agothe last article "Calling All Hackers" touches on this. There are still plentiful communities and resources outside of the mainstream internet. A lot of what I personally refer to as the "real internet" are these smaller indie sites and communities.
- stackghost 2y agoAny idea what "pinkchan" is, as referenced by cts?
- asmr 2y agoIt's a discord group
- justmarc 2y agoAn awesome ezine that brings fond teenage memories, luckily still staying true to its origins, and keeping strong. Hopefully for many more years to come.
- airspresso 2y agoAgree! I remember printing each issue and reading it over and over. So inspiring, convinced me that it's possible to figure out how everything works in tech, down to the wire.
- leptons 2y agoPhrack made some naughty things possible when I was much, much younger. Especially issue #37 http://phrack.org/issues/37/1.html http://phrack.org/issues/37/1.html It wasn't exactly easy to find Phrack in 1992, but I found my way there. I haven't seen an archive of it online in many years. Love seeing this online now, especially with a new issue published! I'm looking forward to reading the recent ones.
- alecco 2y agoIt makes me happy how through the decades Phrack stays true to it's origins and didn't go off the rails.
- Alifatisk 2y agoThe article about reversing Dart snapshots was entertaining to read, what a fascinating language.
- SirLordBoss 2y ago[flagged]
- yagyuu 2y ago:)
- nickdothutton 2y agoA lot quicker to download today than the first time at 2400 baud (MNP5 if I could get the Rabbit modem to negotiate properly).
- singularity2001 2y agodoes cts doxing himself endanger any of his friends and 'greets'?
- bitwize 2y agoHerself.
- cbanek 2y agoI really enjoyed the "calling all hackers" article about how money moves around. http://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article http://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article