Phrack falls with the leaves

The end of August also saw the end of Phrack magazine (www.phrack.org). Or did it? There are rumours about a revival, but Phrack as it stands has breathed its last.

There are probably some SC readers who have never come across Phrack. Like its hard copy bedfellow, 2600, Phrack is a hacker's magazine (hacker in the original sense, not just the computer criminal sense). For the past 20 years, Phrack has provided a slightly irregular, irreverent, but always interesting collection of articles on all aspects of computer security and related topics. Published on the internet as an e-zine, it has always been distributed free of charge.

Phrack has often been the first point of publication of new security issues and exploit techniques. Many buffer overflow enthusiasts first started after issue 49's "Smashing the stack for fun and profit," and the DIY GPS jammer circuit published in issue 60 raised a few eyebrows, not least of which in a funny-shaped building in Washington.

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