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Agree! 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.

Phrack made some naughty things possible when I was much, much younger. Especially issue #37 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.

Herself.

Pretty 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.

The 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.

*by the very same companies that made bank from the web openness.

adding 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

Yes 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.

The 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!