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Phrack is legendary. It is the oldest, and arguably the most prestigious, underground hacking magazine in the world. It started in 1985 and is still running today. In this episode we interview the Phrack staff to hear some stories about what it’s like running a hacker magazine for 40 years. phrack.org Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®.
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I think if you summarize it then frack contains condensed hardcore technical articles without any bullshit. the stuff works and it's practical.
“one of the only times anyone ever has been arrested for a CFAA violation and got off uh it's only like I can count on my one hand I think how many times that's happened and frack was was one of them.”
“it was never that detailed in that clarity and reaching such a wide audience. When this article came out, buffer overflows became the new favorite way hackers would break a system”
“you would right click on the web page and say few source code of the web page and the authorization code would be written there in a hidden HTML tag, in a form tag. And that was all you needed back then to to do hacking.”
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