Phrack
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Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for hackers that has been around since November 17, 1985. The magazine is open for contributions by anyone. Topics of interest are security, hacking, phreaking, anarchism, cryptography, spying, radio broadcasting, coding, conspiracy, and world news.
The original editors of Phrack were hackers with the handles Taran King and Knight Lightning, and it was originally published on the Metal Shop BBS. It was the first electronically distributed magazine.
Phrack is especially popular due to the general high standard of the releases compared to other underground zines, articles such as Aleph1's 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' and The Mentor's 'Hacker Manifesto'.
The popular Hacker Manifesto, an inspiration to young hackers since the 1980s, was published in the 7th issue of Phrack. An article in the 24th issue relating to the workings of Enhanced 911 emergency response systems played a major part in the Secret Service raids called Operation Sundevil and featured in Bruce Sterling's book The Hacker Crackdown.
In 2005, it was announced that Phrack was to come to an end, with the upcoming 63rd issue going to be its last.
There are two different Phrack websites online at the moment: phrack.org houses the original, and a renegade site run by the Phrack High Council is located at phrack.nl.
External links
- Phrack's homepage (http://www.phrack.org)
- Renegade Phrack High Council WebPage (http://phrack.nl)de:Phrack-Magazin