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Re: Phrack 72

#11

Post by firefax »

supernetworks wrote: post #10
firefax wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt I thought that was originally a book? I distinctly remember reading it during an in school suspension in the 2000s. I tried to go back to my township library and read it again years later, but someone had stolen it around the time that Wikileaks truthfully revealed that the DNC had kneecapped Bernie in the primaries. (Many folks don't seem to distinguish between the…

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

Ah ok. Weird way to cite a book title.

Re: Phrack 72

#12

Post by aspenmayer »

firefax wrote: post #11
supernetworks wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

Ah ok. Weird way to cite a book title.

Previously/related:

In the Realm of the Hackers (2003) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281735

Re: Phrack 72

#13

Post by contingencies »

supernetworks wrote: post #10
firefax wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt I thought that was originally a book? I distinctly remember reading it during an in school suspension in the 2000s. I tried to go back to my township library and read it again years later, but someone had stolen it around the time that Wikileaks truthfully revealed that the DNC had kneecapped Bernie in the primaries. (Many folks don't seem to distinguish between the…

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

https://underground-book.net/download.php3

Re: Phrack 72

#14

Post by suchoudh »

sometime back i downloaded a phrack zip on my ubuntu and noticed it had some special character which did not allow me to delete the files once unzipped.

perhaps some safety measure. i am used to only drwxrwxrwx or lrwxrwxrwx on dirs and files never seen srwx.....

Can someone pls point me to some doc that explains how to deal with it.

Re: Phrack 72

#15

Post by mid-kid »

alisonatwork wrote: post #6

There is an ASCII chart in https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article which references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07753 [PDF], a 2020 article showing that open source peaked in 2013. In some qualitative sense that feels intuitively correct, but I am skeptical that in the modern world filled with a zillion NPM dependencies and the cloud YAML explosion and now vibe-coded everything that we are actually producing less l…

I imagine they might be counting actual applications and not libraries/dependencies. Lots of things on the web are closed source.

Re: Phrack 72

#16

Post by theblazehen »

suchoudh wrote: post #14

sometime back i downloaded a phrack zip on my ubuntu and noticed it had some special character which did not allow me to delete the files once unzipped. perhaps some safety measure. i am used to only drwxrwxrwx or lrwxrwxrwx on dirs and files never seen srwx..... Can someone pls point me to some doc that explains how to deal with it.

That sounds like a socket, are you sure you downloaded a zip and not a tar? And that you didn't extract it as root / another user?

You should check the permissions on it, you may need to chown it to your user, or just remove it as root

Re: Phrack 72

#18

Post by anthk »

contingencies wrote: post #13
supernetworks wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

https://underground-book.net/download.php3

I hate it. It destroys the original concept of hackers, with the original Jargon file, the best relase (1.5). Lisp and Forth hackers are the original thinkerers.

The Jargon File

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

https://hakmem.org/

These are actual hackers and hacks.

Re: Phrack 72

#19

Post by jo-lund »

suchoudh wrote: post #14

sometime back i downloaded a phrack zip on my ubuntu and noticed it had some special character which did not allow me to delete the files once unzipped. perhaps some safety measure. i am used to only drwxrwxrwx or lrwxrwxrwx on dirs and files never seen srwx..... Can someone pls point me to some doc that explains how to deal with it.

Sounds to me like the sticky bit is set on the directory and you are not the owner. If this is set on a directory, then you can't delete files inside this directory unless you are the owner (of the files or the directory) or root. Having write permisson is not enough. This makes directories like for example tmp a bit more secure.

Re: Phrack 72

#20

Post by hulitu »

contingencies wrote: post #13
supernetworks wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

https://underground-book.net/download.php3

Thanks. How the world evolved: "Also, if you're curious, view the WebMake source file (warning: this contains the entire book text and markup: 948k in total). "
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