Phrack 71
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Phrack 71
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Re: Phrack 71
#2From 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 straight up disappear. It's heartbreaking.
Re: Phrack 71
#3From 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…
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
Re: Phrack 71
#4From 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…
*by the very same companies that made bank from the web openness.
Re: Phrack 71
#5An awesome ezine that brings fond teenage memories, luckily still staying true to its origins, and keeping strong. Hopefully for many more years to come.
Re: Phrack 71
#6From 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…
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.
Re: Phrack 71
#7From 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 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!
Re: Phrack 71
#8An awesome ezine that brings fond teenage memories, luckily still staying true to its origins, and keeping strong. Hopefully for many more years to come.
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.
Re: Phrack 71
#9From 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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Re: Phrack 71
#10An 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.