It makes me happy how through the decades Phrack stays true to it's origins and didn't go off the rails.
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#12From 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 str…
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.
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#13From 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 str…
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#14The article about reversing Dart snapshots was entertaining to read, what a fascinating language.
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#15An awesome ezine that brings fond teenage memories, luckily still staying true to its origins, and keeping strong. Hopefully for many more years to come.
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.
Which article do you recommend from this issue?
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#16From 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 str…
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.
In fairness, i can see how stuff like http://phrack.org/issues/7/6.html#article might fit that description.
Early internet seems like a much less sanitized place.
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#17From 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 str…
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.
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#20From 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 str…
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.
the 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.