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What Happened to Phrack? 102

Posted by Cliff from the where-did-they-go-now dept.
A worried Anonymous Coward asks: "Remember phrack; the ever irrepressible hacker journal. Their site seems to be down. Does anyone know what happened to them? Phrack was a tradition. I remember the times I used to pour on the articles dissecting every bit of information. To see it go makes me sad." Pinging the primary domain name server for phrack.com also returned no results. Have they dropped off of the face of the 'net, never to be seen again?
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  • loopback's my favorite.
  • Does anyone out there remember "SCAM" ? It was from back in the BBS era, and it was similar in spirit to phrack but written by one guy and much lower-tech. I'd say it was more of a working man's phrack.

  • As I write this the links to the issues are broken due to a MySQL error. However, the FTP archives work fine.

    ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/ [infonexus.com]

  • I used to love the "what's up in the scene" articles, which if I recall correctly, used to feature a lot of "l33t b0y's dad took his modem away, so he's been MIA for a while," etc.

    Of course, the absolute best site for getting a nostalgia rush from the old BBS/Zine scene is textfiles.com [textfiles.com]. Just the other day, I ran a search on the handle of one of my co-workers, and lo and behold, turned up some Zine writing for an old hax0r group on textfiles.com. Good for some laughs!
  • > > incase you're wondering when alt.2600 took the nosie dive into pure shit,
    > > I say summer of 1995. Basically USENET's commuliative quallity halved that summer.
    >
    > Windows 95. Dial-up networking. Bundled TCP/IP stack. Everybody and
    > their dog could get on the internet with a few clicks.

    Or as we old-farts like to call it: The September That Never Ended [tuxedo.org].

    It's just that it took a couple of years for September to catch up with alt.2600.


  • more cannon fodder for the slashdot effect...
    another mirror for the phrack archive is here [2600.net]
    you can find up to issue 52
  • alt.hackers is still around, and still the moderated group with no moderator. Posting frequency is pretty low, but that's the way they likes it. I think the Will you were referring to was Voyager. He's still around, sometimes he'll show up to drink some Cuervo way down Mexico way.

  • That was indeed the dark time - it was like AOL rolled the gant rock from in front of the cave and the crazies ran out in a giant herd. I've always refered to it as "the September that never ended."

    AOL cuss-kiddies yelling about newsgroups they didn't agree with or endlessly asking to be "unsubcribed" from different news groups... sheesh.

    The joke that best sums that time up:
    Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    A:One
    And me too!
    Me Too!
    And Me toO!
    Me too!

    *SIGH*

    =tkk
  • IIRC, that was about the same time AOHell & Prodigy unleased their masses of lusers onto USENET. It's never recovered. I've pretty much given up actually trying to read usenet. About all it's good for anymore is trawling for pr0n. Almost all of the intelligent discussion has moved to web forums like /. or to mailing lists, where at least there is some attempt made to keep things on-topic.
  • I don't think he was contesting its legality, just the intelligence factor of it. Building bombs doens't have much/anything to do with hacking and phreaking, nor do drugs (another issue the original editors were famous for devoting space to). Phrack's current editor, Route, has publicly chastised the former editors on several occasions over these issues.

    Either way, Phrack isn't gone, it's just in another of its infamous 19-months-between-issues periods.
  • As it is now obvious that they moved, my question is why? Why would anyone give up valuable web space, a .com? Have they run in to legal problems?

  • What's with these AskSlashdot's? (Score:5)

    by cot ( 87677 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @04:11PM (#731341)
    I thought the point of an Ask Slashdot was to put out a question with many possible answers, such as "Is there any way to set up a machine to do X, Y, and Z?".

    Then people can respond with a variety of solutions to the problem. This can provide a wealth of information to the person asking the question, as well as other interested parties.

    This question (and a few other recent ones) asks something that probably could have easily been answered with a quick web search. Not only that, but the answer isn't really something that requires a community response.

    "Where's X?"

    "It's over there"

    "Oh."

    ...

    It's not that I am bitter that this guy asked this question. I am bitter because we miss out other questions with potentially more interesting answers.
  • Domain Name: PHRACK.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Datalens Hostmaster (DH62-ORG) datalens@DATALENS.COM Datalens Communications 14114 Via Alisal San Diego, CA 92128 US 619-676-5986 Billing Contact: Diamond, Michael (MS5118) daemon9@INFONEXUS.COM Infonexus, Inc. 242 Front St. Bastard, NM 55054 1-073-2177-0988-9664 Record last updated on 09-Aug-2000. Record expires on 10-Jun-2002. Record created on 09-Jun-1997.
  • yeah, it definitely had its own custome reader program, and it was the one that offered to make trips to states with low cigarette prices if enough people said they wanted cigs.. I don't remember the lye donuts though.. i wish i could find some issues of that.
  • Phrack 56 came out in April or May, and with that issue came a new layout to the webpage. Or "31337 HTML coming soon" as it was said on the Phrack main page while Phrack 55 was out.
    Rock 'n Roll, Not Pop 'n Soul
  • Here are SCAM #1 [totse.com] and #3 [totse.com].
  • thanks a lot, i appreciate it.
  • And of course, the classic: "The Acarchists Cookbook". Check it out at your local library or get it from Amazon.com.

    I strongly recommend against trying any of the recipies in the _Anarchist's Cookbook_. They tend to have dangerous errors or omissions.

    Example: The nitroglycerine recipie neglects aparatus and processing steps necessary to keep the reaction running cool enough that it doesn't blow up during manufacture. (I understand that the original inventor of nitro blew himself up, and the compound he was working on was reconstructed - much more carefully - from the surviving fragments of his lab notes.)

    Considerably less likely to kill you are the recipies in the reprints of the US military manuals on improvised munitions (available at most gun shows).

    Reminder: The BATF is in charge of seeing that anybody who actually TRIES the recipies in these books (without filling out forms, acquiring government approvals, and paying applicable taxes) is treated harshly. And "The Revenooers" are somewhat gung-ho about their job (as they demonstrated at Waco TX.)
  • Remember phrack; the ever irrepressible hacker journal. Their site seems to be down. Does anyone know what happened to them?

    Of course it's down, it was linked to on the slashdot front page!

    --

  • Who said our arguments ever needed enhancing. :-)

    -weld
  • oh man that would be so cool....
  • Well Win95 was released in August '95 AFAIK. It took one month for all the newbies to discover usenet (or "news" as micro$oft calls it)

    Am I wrong?
  • If you had something productive to do, you wouldn't be posting this.

    --
    It's a .88 magnum -- it goes through schools.
  • In reading this story, and it's comments, it occurs to me that noone has noticed or even mention this site [pulhas.org] which is currently the Phrack website. Ah, well, probably much too late to be moderated up, but I thought I would mention it anyway.
  • I will regret doing this, because I know it will get slashdotted, but a mirror of all of the issues can be found here. [fc.net]

    If you want to get a good glimpse at the earlier days of computer "hacking", this is a good place to start. I especially like the "hack" to open a Master combination lock. I hope this helps a little.
  • My guess is that something got screwed during the migration - consistently gives a MySQL error when you try to pull up an article.

    And as to those of you conspiracy theorists who think that this is Operation Sundevil reincarnate, I remind you that the site changed hosts, there was no government conspiracy. Explore before you claim that the sky is falling. "I mean, that's the only reason it could have happened." Err, no, it was quite obviously not.

  • Re:Has happened more than once... (Score:2)

    by Anonymous Coward
    this is BS. unless you mean that the original editor's included articles on bomb making and stealing things , where as now it is more technical info, either way it is still a great zine, and accepted by a lot of people.
  • All of a sudden my email to/from my lastfoot.com account started bouncing, and now www.lastfoot.com is a marketing site for NeTraverse, the Win4Lin people.

    Anyone know what happened there? No notifications or anything, just *poof*, gone.

  • That Reminds Me. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    That reminds me. Tonight I'm going to pitch that assortment of 2600 Magazines I have tucked away into the garbage. I've been cleaning out all kinds of old crap I used to dote on. Anybody in the north suburbs of the Twin Cities (Minnesota) you might want to peek into dumpsters, cuz there will be a bundle of 2600 Magazines (odd issues dating from about 1991 to 1998) in one of them.
  • Looks like phrack's phucked off
  • Big deal. Relax. Look, sometimes thingz happen that are beyond our control. And sometimes thingz happen because people are lazy. And sometimez thingz happen because lazy people can't control anything. Jeeze. Calm down. Things will be fixed. I'd hate to see what would happen to some of you if www.startrek.com went down. Phrack isn't dead.
  • # # Requires wget, etc... # The phrack archive 45 seems to be mostly empty. # This was originally written to convert the files for # memoware.com but I could net get ahold of the authors # of phrack to submit the archives. So, I guess everyone # need to download and convert them themselves. declare -i COUNTER=0 cd /tmp while [ $COUNTER -lt 54 ]; do if [ $COUNTER -lt 9 ]; then COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1] wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack0$COUN TER.tar.gz tar xvfz phrack0$COUNTER.tar.gz cd phrack0$COUNTER for f in p0$COUNTER*; do iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f done zip ../phrack0$COUNTER-isilo *.pdb rm -f * rmdir ../phrack0$COUNTER cd .. else COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1] wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack$COUNT ER.tar.gz tar xvfz phrack$COUNTER.tar.gz cd phrack$COUNTER for f in p$COUNTER*; do iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f done zip ../phrack$COUNTER-isilo *.pdb rm -f * rmdir ../phrack$COUNTER cd .. fi done
    --
  • maybe its just me, but the last Phrack I remember seeing was #53...
  • I'm laughing as we speak. I got downward moderation for my reply to this comment [slashdot.org] about "the meaning of hack", and how alt.hackers wasn't like the group you described before.
    --
  • There were two guys on alt.2600 that new the most. Will something (the FAQ maintainer) and

    Will! He went by the nick of "Voyager". He was so fun to troll. He wrote, hands-down, some of the funniest flames I've ever read (back when flaming on usenet was an artform). My friend Chris (Y-Windoze, now at nsa.org [nsa.org]) trolled Will about Phrack (there was a running joke that Will had stopped being the FAQ maintainer so he could edit Phrack). Will replied with something along the lines of "Y-Windoze, like so many of this year's freshman, is finally allowed to release his inner child. Unfortunately for us, his inner child is a butthole."

    Just to show that there weren't any hard feelings, Will and Chris Grogan (aka Eric Bloodaxe, then editor of Phrack) gave money ($1.35!) to help get Chris (Y-Win) out of jail when he got arrested at summercon [summercon.org].

    hymie

  • Oops, hit the wrong button last post.. :)

    This is a short script I wrote as a one shot deal to submit phrack to memoware.com, but memoware admin wouldn't take them without permission from phrack. Its not the greatest script as I only used it once. Hopefully it still works, I havent used it on awhile.

    #
    # Requires wget, etc...

    # The phrack archive 45 seems to be mostly empty.
    # This was originally written to convert the files for
    # memoware.com but I could net get ahold of the authors
    # of phrack to submit the archives. So, I guess everyone
    # need to download and convert them themselves.

    declare -i COUNTER=0
    cd /tmp

    while [ $COUNTER -lt 54 ]; do

    if [ $COUNTER -lt 9 ]; then

    COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1]
    wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack0$COUN TER.tar.gz
    tar xvfz phrack0$COUNTER.tar.gz

    cd phrack0$COUNTER

    for f in p0$COUNTER*; do
    iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f
    done

    zip ../phrack0$COUNTER-isilo *.pdb
    rm -f *
    rmdir ../phrack0$COUNTER

    cd ..

    else

    COUNTER=$[$COUNTER+1]
    wget --passive-ftp ftp://phrack.infonexus.com/pub/phrack/phrack$COUNT ER.tar.gz
    tar xvfz phrack$COUNTER.tar.gz

    cd phrack$COUNTER

    for f in p$COUNTER*; do
    iSilo386 -T -rCR -sLB2 $f
    done

    zip ../phrack$COUNTER-isilo *.pdb
    rm -f *
    rmdir ../phrack$COUNTER

    cd ..
    fi

    done


    --
  • Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166 Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167 No articles match your query.
  • Sell them on ebay :)
  • because today we have the EFF. thank God for the EFF.
  • could be just like what they did to 2600.com although, I haven't looked at Phrack in months.

    www.buymeaferrari.com [buymeaferrari.com]
  • Remember when the secret service raided Steve Jackson Games, took their computer equipment for their Illumanti BBS [sjgames.com]... and they didn't give it back, because it contained the GURPS Cyberpunk file, which was later called a handbook for computer crime? This sounds remarkabley similar. Perhaps we shall be proactive and get ready to protest the secret service.

  • The answer (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    They were phreaked, of course.
  • and i'm cuckoo for vindaloo-puffs.

    what's your point?
  • the moved to phrick
  • [21:02] He comes in, slams me, then walks out to watch TV. what's WRONG with this picture...

    The fact that anyone would listen to the guy? I think sig11 needs to calm down a bit....


    Simon

  • Has happened more than once... (Score:3)

    by cOdEgUru ( 181536 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:21AM (#731377) Homepage Journal
    In early 1990, the United States Secret Service carried out a nationwide crackdown on hackers which came to be known as Operation Sundevil. The sweep was highly publicized, in an effort to discourage many of the hackers whom it did not target. Naturally, this crackdown had an adverse effect on Phrack magazine. In late December of 1989, Issue 30 was released; a mere three weeks later, Phrack was shut down by the USSS during Operation Sundevil. Over the course of 1990, several attempts were made to re-establish Phrack, however, since they were not done with the consent of the original editors, they were unfocused and not generally accepted by the hacker community.
  • Dated May 1st... in slashdot time I can see how it might be considered old, but its good to see its still up. I remember downloading phrack from BBSes, and then getting ahold of it thru Delphi's internet services. Good time.

    My absolute favorite article is the one where they do the email around the world, using UUCP style routing, and bouncing around geographically stepping servers. Indeed a good time.

    Anyone else have a favorite article?

    ----

  • I get nothing but Mysql errors from that site. Perhaps it's still under construction?

  • Perhaps they had problems with the server, and are down for the time being... Is it really necessary to jump to the conclusion that the government took it down, or someone hacked it? Crashes do happen...
  • Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166

    Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167

    hehe I love seing this kinda stuff!
  • Look for the FTP links, or the latest issue is called "phrack56.zip" or "phrack56.tar" ... check your search engines...

    ----

  • Phrack moved here (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    PHRACK [infonexus.com]

  • Re:phrack (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    the articles chosen now are best they have ever been, which has given phrack real credibility in professional computer security circles.

    (i.e. the ratio of "how to make a firebomb out of your grandmother's shoe" articles has steadily declined.)

    my only hope is that they can come out in a more consistent and timely matter.
    keep up the good work route.

  • Re:New address (Score:3)

    by baldeep ( 213585 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @12:32PM (#731385)

    Gosh, and I figured they just got slashdotted ;-)

  • sure phrack was at the top 2 years ago.
    But since 55, it became a NO GO.

    though I allways liked the submission column.

  • Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166

    Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167

    No articles match your query.
  • Sure thing dude.<br><br>

    <a href="http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs _Taco.html">
    http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs_Tac o.html</a>

    <br><br>
    If that doesn't turn your stomache, I don't know what would.

  • Another mirror of all issues of Phrack (Score:2)

    by Anonymous Coward
    http://the.wiretapped.net/s ecu rity/textfiles/phrack/ [wiretapped.net]

    All issues are there, in both compressed and uncompressed plaintext.

    http://the.wiretapped.net/security /te xtfiles/ [wiretapped.net] also contains a decent slab of other stuff that might be of interest...

  • They're also available in many other places, but I'll always be sure to keep up with the Phracks as well. (They're the original Hacker E-zine, depending on how you look at it).

    This Phrack Section [textfiles.com] is one of several dozen that I keep about different Electronic Magazines of the last 25 years on the site.
  • Goddamn it! Anytime I forget to preview. Here's the actual HTML: Sure thing dude.

    http://images.kuro5hin.org/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs_Taco. html [kuro5hin.org]

    If that doesn't turn your stomache, I don't know what would. As long as I'm posting more crap, here's an interesting conversation on Slashdot itself (set your threshold down to view it though).

    Thread of doom [slashdot.org]!

    Actually, I left in my settings so you can view it.
  • A friend of mine wrote a little paper for the Phrack Magazine #56. You can read it here. hi gaius! do u like .ph ?

  • Re:They've only moved (Score:5)

    by plover ( 150551 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @12:52PM (#731393) Homepage Journal
    The best quote on alt.2600 from that time period was "Has anybody else noticed that the quality of the lamers has gone downhill?"

    John

    ...all downhill since 1972...

  • some of the funniest flames I've ever read (back when flaming on usenet was an artform).

    Are there any Best Of... collections on the net anyplace still alive? The 'Hall of Flame' died years ago it seems, and I haven't found any replacements :(
  • the url is : http://plan9.hert.org/papers/tunnelx.html
  • Look at the bottom of the page. http://www.lastfoot.com/about_us/news_coverage/081 000-merger.php [lastfoot.com]. It was a merger.
    treke

  • Re:Has happened more than once... (Score:2)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Wrong. There were a series of editors that did get the permission of Knight Lightning and Taran King to continue the e-zine, including Crimson Death/Dispater (with Dispater staying through 43), Eric Bloodaxe(AKA Chris Goggans of Comsec/LOD fame, through number 48), then Voyager/ReDragon/Daemon9. Daemon9 changed his handle to Route, and is the current editor. To be more exact, KL and TK handed it off to Crimson Death/Dispater, Dispater handed it off to Ericb, and so on. I'd say RTFM, but, RTFE-Z seems more appropriate. At any rate, it makes for fascinating reading, and it's amazing how similar the personalities in the computer underground now are to the people active in the 80's.
  • Nice link. I was shocked to find something of mine in there. Glad I stopped using that alias a long, long, long time ago.
  • hehehehe, it specificly mentions him on the summercon page...

    Who's Invited: Calling all hackers, phreakers, phrackers, feds, 2600 kids, cops, security professionals, Y-WiND0z3, r00t kids club, press, groupies, chicks, conf whores and k0d3 kids. And everyone else.

    Anyway, this stuff is interesting, kinda like ancient history for me, I was actually probably one of the lamers that bugged you guys so much, but IANALA (I am not a lamer anymore).
  • can't be win95 .... that was released in 96 or 97 right :) on the other hand ... maybe it was the beta testers of win95 ... they may have got their copy by summer 95 ... my guess is it was probably something in the media that got a whole lotta people there.
  • You are an idiot. Try reading the other fucking posts before posting some stupid shit like you did.

    And you get what the last jackass got...as Fred and Method Man say..

    SHUT THE FUCK UP!
  • And you call taking the time to make a whiney little post like that productive...psshhh, dipshit!

    SHUT THE FUCK UP!
  • I never saw a phrack past issue 47, and that was five or six years ago.. I did see mention of them the other day, and some quote from issue 49, which means they must have gotten over whatever problems plagued them after 47. I never knew they had a website.. We used to get it off BBSs.. hehe..
    Vote for freedom! [harrybrowne2000.org]
    ---
  • Well, if you (as the editors appear to be) are under the (grossly mistaken) assuption that the /. readership is intelligent, resourcefull, and does their research before sumbitting an article, this would have been a rather good thread.

    While, in the present climate, where HPA is equated with script-kiddies, and being 31337 is akin to being a witch in colonial Salem, few openly admit it, many hackers (!= Cracker) were, during their younger days hackers (== Crackers). I grew up in a house that had an active pirate BBS running in it, and still remember the day I said "Daddy... what's a blue-box?"

    With this in mind, had phrack actually, and finally died, this would fairly significant news.

    Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world, and ppl don't look at search engines, and the editors don't check up on stories, so we're left to sit around and bitch about it.


    Which is almost as much fun as reading actual news.
  • Did you try asking Mike?

    I just called him... he should be on in a moment to comment.

  • New address (Score:5)

    by Infernal Pulse ( 197261 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:24AM (#731406) Homepage
    The site has moved to the new address http://phrack.infonexus.com and is definatly still alive and firing out awesome articles.

  • They've only moved (Score:5)

    by Gordo Toor ( 34331 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:26AM (#731407)
    http://phrack.infonexus.com/ [infonexus.com]
    --
    I wrote the play & still own the script ...
  • Try doing a ping on Datalens.com, 204.152.178.12 (Phrack's DNS server)... not there... Then try doing a ping on both pierce.org (204.152.178.11) and emke.com (204.152.178.10)... both DNS servers for Datalens... no response...

    It would seem that Mike Emke and Greg Pierce either they are having problems with their entire network (ack) or something else, more troublesome, is up.

  • Re:They've only moved (Score:4)

    by coaxial ( 28297 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:50AM (#731409) Homepage
    I thought that domain name looked familure. Back when in 1994-1995 (freshman in college) I went through my infatuation with cracker culture, that alot of people do. I amassed quite a collection of filez and had ran a semipopular site out of my dorm room (running Slackware).

    This was back in the day when alt.hackers still was "self-moderated" meaning you had to add a specific header saying "X-Moderator-Approved:" or something in order to get your post to propigate across USENET. And you had better include your "ObHack" or you'd get flamed. (Some where quite involved. Like hacking a garage door opener to your beer refridgerator to open the door and deliver a beer to you.)

    This was also back back in the day when alt.2600 actually had a resident population that new stuff, as opposed to being just 5cr1pT k1Ddi3z. There were two guys on alt.2600 that new the most. Will something (the FAQ maintainer) and route@infonexus.com. (I forgot his email address but his FTP site was something at ftp.cdrom.com/.../route .)

    I haven't thought about that guy in years.

    --
    The Guy Formerlly Known as "Coolness Incarnate"

    (Now I'll have to track down The Bob(c) and my walk down memory lane will be complete.)

    (Oh and incase you're wondering when alt.2600 took the nosie dive into pure shit, I say summer of 1995. Basically USENET's commuliative quallity halved that summer. Don't know exactly why though. It was after the AOL-USENET fiasco.)
  • Unfortunately, things are still pointing to phrack.com on their site (forum.phrack.com for example)... I guess they're still in the process of moving...

    (*phewph* Glad it's still up)

  • Re:They've only moved (Score:3)

    by dillon_rinker ( 17944 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:56AM (#731411) Homepage
    Oh and incase you're wondering when alt.2600 took the nosie dive into pure shit, I say summer of 1995. Basically USENET's commuliative quallity halved that summer. Don't know exactly why though.

    Windows 95. Dial-up networking. Bundled TCP/IP stack. Everybody and their dog could get on the internet with a few clicks. I don't blame the increase in the signal/noise ratio on Microsoft or Windows per se, merely on the ease of use.
  • At Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:21:35 -0400 (EDT) I received an email notifying me of the problem with phrack.com.

    Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in
    /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166

    Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in
    /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167

    The MySQL server and the Apache server reside on different machines so there could be any number of problems. It will be fixed soon. There are mirror sites, use them. Please stop emailing me about it, there is nothing I can do myself about this problem.
  • That link may be for the new phrack site, but try and get into any of it's sublinked pages... SQL errors all over the place. Looks like the MySQL server is down. So either they have been shutdown... or their mirror just got /.ed

    Incidentally the MySQL server for that site is 63.145.226.10, and phrack.infonexus.com is 63.145.226.228. So it looks like the MySQL server was just for that mirror.

    However, the front page at phrack.infonexus.com lists www.phrack.com as the home page for phrack. (and it says they had 0.56)

    The DNS record for phrack.com is owned by NS1.DATALENS.COM which seems to be down, so does www.detalens.com so this could just be an ISP issue?
  • why did you have to post anonymously? i would have bought those from you. if you read this gimme an email and we can arrange a price.
  • Was this the same SCAM! magazine that, in one issue, was selling a package of donuts with lye injected with them? Had its own little custom reader program?
  • I especially like the "hack" to open a Master combination lock.

    One of the more useful articles I've ever read. I never bother memorizing my lock combinations anymore, I forget them after only a few weeks if I don't use them, but I've remembered this technique for I don't know how many years. Works every time. :)

  • Do you remember the big a55 page: goatse.cx. where people used to send newbies and other people unaware of the grotesque a55 in the page. It has been down since long ago.
  • There are systems that encourage good posting and there are systems that don't. Slashdot is somewhere in the middle and although I am the king of the world i'm not about to storm in there and take control.

    Well, not yet.

    Some improvements. I see little point in anonymous cowarding. It's no more anonymous that a user account with fake sign-up details, and you can't have a two-way conversation with a faceless user. You never know who you're talking to. Anonymous coward is a dickhead.

    Meta moderation is silly. What do we do to deal with bad meta-moderation? meta-meta-moderation? then meta-meta-meta.. oh please. You're putting more sellotape on your dyke*1.

    *1 no, wait, I mean dam.

  • Yesterday, http://www.flashback.se/ was taken down by the bandwidth suppliers MCI WorldCom and KPNQwest, Flashback buys their bandwidth from Air2Net, a supplier under MCI, and Air2Net is forced by MCI to close their pipes to flashback, or loose their contract.. so now Flashback is down because "big brother"-MCI says so..

    Flashback has an underground-news e-zine mailed to over 100.000 users, and has been hosting controversial sites on their webhotel that other ISP's do not dare to keep...

    I know phrack is still up, but I feel this is a valid point in this discussion...
  • There is the idea that the server might be down...or at least a part of it anyway. This is what happens when you attempt to read any issue of Phrack in the archives... ********************************************** Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '63.145.226.10' (111) in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 166 Warning: 0 is not a MySQL link index in /var/www/vhosts/phrack/htdocs/search.phtml on line 167 No articles match your query.
  • You're blaming a SUMMER of 1995 dive in USENET quality on an operating system that wasn't released until the end of August, and didn't bundle the dial-up networking until 1996?

    Bit of a stretch, that.

    -
  • seems like it hasn't been updated for about 3 days now. (kinda long if you're used to seeing it change week-daily)

  • FYI (Score:1)

    by amon ( 24507 )
    This was back in the day when alt.hackers still was "self-moderated" meaning you had to add a specific header saying "X-Moderator-Approved:" or something in order to get your post to propigate across USENET. And you had better include your "ObHack" or you'd get flamed. (Some where quite involved. Like hacking a garage door opener to your beer refridgerator to open the door and deliver a beer to you.)

    FYI, alt.hackers [alt.hackers] is still pseudo-moderated on majority of servers. And you'll still get flamed for not including an ObHack.

  • I especially like where Taco compares slashdot to Microsoft (and himself to Bill Gates by extension) by saying, 'Anytime someone gets popular they get harrassed. Just like Microsoft!'

    Doesn't he realize what an egomaniacal idiot that makes him look like?

  • Re:phrack (Score:4)

    by ArtPepper ( 106669 ) on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:29AM (#731425)
    http://www.eff.org/pub/Misc/Publications/CuD/Phrac k/

    Includes up to issue 49.
  • I always enjoy Fridays, but this one will be a kick and a half. I may even have to take off work so that I can flame and troll slashdot (I have a job where a day off is pretty easy to justify, especially since I don't do it very often).
  • Datalens seems to be down. Could be something as simple as a telephone guy stealing a pair from their uplink T-1. This can take days to fix, since the telco will say, " no, we havent done anything to YOUR circuit ". I have seen T-1 lines go away for 3 or 4 days from causes like this. How long has the site been down? Does anyone know how big of an ISP Datalens is ?

  • EFF used to host Computer Underground Digest arch (Score:3)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04, 2000 @11:31AM (#731429)
    I dunno if it is still around, but ftp.eff.org under /CUD used to host the computer underground digest and a huge collection of hack / phrack netzines including Phrack, Lod tech manual, Cult Dead Cow, Informatic and others.

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