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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume 0xc, Issue 0x41, Phile #0x02 of 0x0f
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|=------------------------=[ The UNIX Terrorist ]=----------------------=|
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In this issue of Phrack, we have renewed with publishing the prophile
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of an influencial underground character. The UNIX terrorist was already
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prophiled two years ago but for some editorial reasons at the time, we
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were not able to get his prophile published. Now that the Phrack editorial
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staff has less open conflicts with some part of the scene represented by
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the_uT, we want to make sure everyone remember his engagement. A lot of
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people believed he was an extremist blackhat hacker proning non-disclosure
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during his time of activity. That was true. But he was not just this.
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I have known the UNIX Terrorist in real life seven years ago. At this time,
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during his youth, the_uT was a softer hacker. Dont get me wrong, the_uT
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(or whatever he was calling himself before) always had this characteristic
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personality that made him an exceptionally creative dude. Later on, after
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he started body-building (rumors mention that he followed the advices of
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his idol Mike Shifman), he got that impressive shape that certainly
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represented better his mind shift towards a more aggressive prophile. The
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UNIX terrorist is the result of this evolution from a young skilled hacker
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to a disabused philosopher of the underground.
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This prophile was realized by The Paper Street Hacker in November 2007
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for publication in Phrack Magazine #65 by TCLH. Remember the opinion
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reflected in this interview only engages the UNIX Terrorist and does not
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represent the opinion of the Phrack editors.
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So here it is.
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|=---=[ Specifications
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Handle: the_uT
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AKA: daemon10, yu0, jungjeezy
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Handle origin: Africa
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Age of your body: 24
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Produced in: The Heart of Darkness, USA
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Living in: The Paper Street Soap Company, USA
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Height & Weight: Excessive" / 250lbs
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Urlz: http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/EL8/
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Computers: Anything with a network connection and a working ssh
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client will do... I'd rather spend my money on clothes
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& entertainment... less tech garbage also means my
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bedroom doesn't scare the bitches away
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Creator of: PROJEKT MAYHEM / Phrack High Council / anti.security.is
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Admin of: Most of South Korea/China ...
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Member of: NAMBLA (proud sponsors of TOR!) / ANONYMOUS
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Projects: M4YH3M
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Codez: stealthrm, the first blackhat RM(1) utility, designed
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to rm desktop computers silently. Distributed as a
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Linux LKM, VFS functions are hijacked so that file
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indexing and rm'ing can be smuggled and interleaved
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discretely amongst existing file operations.
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Additionally, keyboard I/O is monitored to determine
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the sysadmin's presence. Sporadic file wiping occurs
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either during heavy PLANNED system hard drive use, or
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occurs slowly and steadily, with timed delays, while
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the console user is absent. The primary purpose is to
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avoid the alarming and sickeningly unexpected HDD
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"crunching" sound that alerts many would-be "rm -rf /"
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victims to their impending doom. File removal is
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scheduled according to a proprietary prioritization
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algorithm whose factors include criteria such as
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inode atimes and VFS type. Files are secure DOD-wiped
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in place, but not unlinked, preserving disk statistics.
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Active since: 1998
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Inactive since: I don't sleep... I metastasize
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|=---=[ Favorites
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Actors: Assorted government officials, "security experts,"
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and "spiritual leaders" ... Scientologists
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Films: Apocalypse Now Redux, Happiness, Gummo, Pi, The Big
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Lebowski, Bad Boy Bubby, Irreversible
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Authors: Bret Easton Ellis, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Hunter S
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Thompson, William S Burroughs, Will Self, Irvine Welsh,
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H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain
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Articles: "The New Hacking Manifesto" - warez mullah, PHC Phrack
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#62
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"lyfestylez of the owned and lamest" - r0b1nleech,
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~el8 3
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Admins: hendy of team-teso, The Digital Ebola[LoU],
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pm/sneakerz.org
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Books: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Rape of
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Nanking, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Novel: Fight Club, 120 Days of Sodom, American Psycho,
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Journey to the End of the Night, The Picture of
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Dorian Gray, The Jungle, Fear and Loathing in Las
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Vegas, Catch 22, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Story
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of /b/
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Meeting: ADMCon / France (2001)
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Project: The Manhattan Project, The Final Solution
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Sex: "You're dead if you're homely - my shit's for adults,
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over eight years old only"
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Drugs: Beta blockers and dissociatives... just about any
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substance featured on Erowid or T-Nation... especially
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modafinil, ayahuasca, ketamine, dinitrophenol, epic
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stanozololz (Winstrofl), nandrolone, Epi-Pens
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Music: Revolutionary/violent/mysognist/apocalyptic hip-hop
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Ex: Jedi Mind Tricks, Necro, Circle of Tyrants, Non
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Phixion, Leak Bros, Immortal Technique, Q-Unique,
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Cage, Celph Titled Plastikman
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Alcohol: Like my women - 15-18 years old, single (malt) and on
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the fucking rocks
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Cars: blue dodge viper (vroom vroom!)
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Foods: Whey protein hydrolysate, Vitargo CGL, BCAA's,
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l-glutamine, Carlson's Fish Oil Liquid Omega-3
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I like: Andrei Chikatilo, 2girls1[cup/finger], Puma Swede,
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thinspiration, violent sporting (WEC,UFC,Pride),
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solving intractable problems with violence,
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achieving EPIC LULZ of unprecedented magnitude
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I dislike: Fat goths, CISSPs, fat people (in general), women with
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a BMI over 18, women whose thighs touch when they stand,
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miniature dogs, people who tailgate or drink beer out
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of red plastic cups, Basshunter
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|=---=[ Your current life in a paragraph
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I'll give you a hint... it doesn't involve getting paid to do
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computer security research. The only reason I would even
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consider using a computer anymore would be to meet women of
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loose moral standards on myspace, or to engage in the wholesale
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piracy of music and video content, preferrably violent
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pornography. Or maybe to get directions to a strip club on
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mapquest... or order various scheduled substances from corrupt
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Eastern European pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities... In
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fact, if you're reading my prophile because you just happened
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still to be reading Phrack in 2008 and stumbled upon it, then
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I pity you... you fucking closet homosexual.
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|=---=[ First contact with computers
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Studying the mysteries of gorillas.bas and nibbles.bas,
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oldstyle!
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|=---=[ Youth
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I was 300 lbs, bespectacled, and acne-stricken. I used to read
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copies of Dr. Dobb's Journal in P.E. Everybody hated me. Then I
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underwent an emergency negroplasty and decided to enact my
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revenge upon the world by inflicting massive verbal trauma
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through a medium where personal interaction is impossible and
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everybody feels tougher than they really are. So I installed
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BitchX and went on EFNET, and the rest, my friend, is history.
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|=---=[ Passions : What makes you tick
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I'm distinguished by an acutely defined and unparalleled sense
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of schadenfreude. Technology is pretty fun too (or at least it
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was for a while), but what really drove me harder and further
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was the exciting possibility of using computers to turn the
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life of a particular fellow human being into a living hell.
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So no, I wasn't that kid that used to hang out at Radio Shack
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pulling apart electronic equipment and reassembling it to "see
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how it works." Shit like that doesn't make you a "hacker" - it
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makes you a wannabe EE undergrad. Driving people over the
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precipices of depair and frustration is a great way to
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pass one's time, but definitely falls short of the pleasure of
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discrediting or humiliating or otherwise defaming and
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slandering the ill-earned reputations of the various charlatans
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and hypocrites in the scene. Publishing the mail spoolz of
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the wicked, archiving the hard drives of the lame, and rm'ing
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the weak are all activities I find inspirational. Particularly,
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I choose to self-medicate my anomie by proving myself smarter
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and stronger than others. This is the sort of thing with which
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we'll have to make do until we can one day stalk elk around the
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ruins of the Rockefeller Center or strip venison in the empty
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carpool lanes of some abandoned superhighway. For further
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information about what makes me "tick," please consult Dr. Neal
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Krawetz's remarkable and highly academic psychological exegesis,
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fully annotated to official APA formatting standards.
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|=---=[ Entrance in the underground
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It all began on EFNET, some time around 1998 (long before they
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had CHANFIX like dalnet!) in lame and lamer channels like #b4b0
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and #feed-the-goats. Historical note: Several incredibly
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diabolical and motivated individuals from b4b0 would come to
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rule the virtual entirety of the Interweb with an iron fist for
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the following decade. Yeah, I started hacking shit virtually
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exclusively on TCP/IP networks, and started writing exploits
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long after techniques like heap overflows and return-into-libc
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were published, so fuck you if you have a problem with the fact
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that I never scanned shit with toneloc or bruteforced SPRINTNET
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logins.
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|=---=[ Which research have you done or which one gave you the most fun?
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Writing any one of several reliable exploits for intelligently
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brute-forcing complex remote vulnerabilities, which all made me
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feel like a hacker from THE MATRIX. Especially writing a
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universal blind exploit for the Wu-FTPD globbing vuln for
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versions 2.5.x-2.6.1 (cmdtab power!), and porting the remote
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client for CORE-SDI's ingenious crc32 deattack backdoor to more
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exotic operating systems such as Solaris and IRIX (possibly the
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world's slowest exploit). Also, writing an LKM for dynamically
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loadable stack/heap execution protection on Linux.
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|=---=[ How started low-level ?
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Like most other "underground" groups out there, this one started
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from the flawed notion that it would somehow be cool to get a
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group of people together with a webpage and domain name and IRC
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channel and write a bunch of POC code and publish it to the
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public and post on sec lists for attention. It was a stupid
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idea.
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|=---=[ Personal general opinion about the underground
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Well, the underground is pretty much dead, but I guess you
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mostly have the security researchers out there to thank for that
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one. However, as a delicious proof of the old adage "be careful
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what you wish for," security professionals have made their own
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demand scarce. With vulnerabilities so much harder to find,
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it means that random idiots out there aren't likely to find
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anything remotely useful by grep'ing for overflows in unsafe C
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functions. The first sign that things were about to dry out
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occurred during the format bug craze in 2000, which resulted in
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the systematic scanning of all varargs style functions that were
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incorrectly used - the first time an entire class of
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vulnerabilities has been nearly perfectly eradicated in a body
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of open source code. Slowly over time, the same thing has
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happened to most other memory and integer overflows, and casting
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bugs. What happens as a result? 0day becomes a highly valued
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commodity. The chance of leakage decreases dramatically because:
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1. 0day is much more valuable
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2. Few people can find useful vulns, which decreases the amount
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of sharing. Additionally, smarter people usually find an
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intrinsically higher value in their own work than people that
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can't understand the exploits they're using.
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3. "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns" -
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Praise be to Allah and the fact that the divine mathematics of
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exploit creation are now made sacred by entities like WIPO and
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the DMCA. For nearly a decade, security companies relied on FUD
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and fearmongering, heralding the imminent spread of global
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cyber-warfare and e-terror. A particularly salient example of
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this idiocy would be the infamous Aris Threatcon, second in its
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contemptibility only to the Homeland Security Advisory meter.
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These scare tactics worked for a while, as sec. companies
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boosted sales of products such as firewalls, packet filters,
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network scanners, and other useless trash by relentlessly
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trumpeting the seriousness of various "hacker" threats and by
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strategically scaring the public with their own original
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(mostly stolen) advisories. Ironically, they ended up scaring
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legislators more than the commercial sector, and now people
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like Dmitry Skylarov are arrested for publishing their
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"astonishing!" findings. Note to security companies: you're
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attempting to be both the cause and the cure and we've got
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use for neither.
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4. 0day auctions: Blackhats finally realize that it's a lot
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more lucrative to sell exploit information to shadowy interest
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groups. Such sales have the added benefit of preventing
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information dissemination, because it works against the
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interests of all parties involved. iDEFENSE, the first and
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largest name in hacking middlemanry, was forced to purchase
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exploits from the underground when they realized they lacked
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the technical skills in their meager R&D labs to find any
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exploits on their own. But who in their right mind would
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consider auctioning off vulns at Argentinian prices to a
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whitehat sweatshop that will just pawn their findings off as
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their own, and then publish them to Bugtraq - when they can make
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the same sale to somebody in the underground for 5-10x the cost
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and rest assured that the vuln will stay alive?
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Nowadays, it is claimed that the Chinese and even WOMEN are
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hacking things. Man, am I ever glad I got a chance to experience
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"the scene" before it degenerated completely. And remember, kids,
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knowing how to program or wanting really badly to figure out how
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things work inside doesn't make you a hacker! Hacking boxes
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makes you a "hacker" ! That's right! Write your local
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representatives at Wikipedia/urbandictionary/OED and let them
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know that hackers are people that gain unauthorized
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access/privileges to computerized systems! Linus Torvalds
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isn't a hacker! Richard Stallman isn't a hacker! Niels Provos
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isn't a hacker! Fat/ugly, maybe! Hackers, no! And what is up with
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the use of the term "cracker"? As far as I'm concerned, that term
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applies to people that bypass copyright protection mechanisms.
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Vladimir Levin? HACKER. phiber optik? HACKER. Kevin Mitnick? OK,
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maybe a gay/bad one, but still WAS a "hacker." Hope that's clear.
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|=---=[ Memorable Experiences
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First box I ever owned (dropstat'd son)
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Watching widespread panic and hysteria grip IRC and various
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security mailing lists after the publication of ~el8, esp. #2
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and #3.
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The PHC Music & Film Festival, notably Joost Pol rms freebsd.cn
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The multi-homed attack/rm'ing of efnet irc operator "seiki,"
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which resulted in PHC primacy and alpha male hegemony over
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#phrack
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Preparing the memorable vitriolic speech "Wolves Among Us"
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from scratch, in less than 30 minutes... then attempting to
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deliver it without inducing fatal hilarity
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Becoming the Freddy Krueger of the Internet/IRC
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Celebrating Kwanzaa online in #darknet with assorted South
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African infosec luminaries
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Civil rights champions worldwide cheer when a Polish transsexual
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becomes the most recognizable expert on the vanguard of kernel
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rootkit (un)detection research
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Having my first proposed Phrack prophile rejected by humorless
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German staff
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The suceessful social engineering of hacker "dvdman" - which
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resulted in the retrieval of an explicit masturbatory video of
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aforementioned individual
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iDEFENSE contributors and their laughably low sell-out prices
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are revealed in "fake" Phrack
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Vomiting in my mouth (just a little bit) the first time I walked
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into the Alexis Park Hotel
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The communal rm'ing of w00w0's jobe, which became the only
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known time in history where the same individual was rm'ed
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concurrently by multiple intruders, who, up until the time
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of the attack, had no knowledge of each other's presences
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Logging into my computer, relying only on muscle memory to type,
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after forgetting the alphabet and being too fucked up to read
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the letters on my keyboard
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The look of surprise on the Cheshire Catalyst's face after his
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password was shouted at him repeatedly, at approximately 80
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decibels, while he was entertaining fans
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stringz attempts to replicate ~el8, fails, and is shamed offline
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forever
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securityfocus.com adds thumbnail pictures to its original
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columns - I finally find out infosec rockstars such as Don
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Parker, Scott Granneman, and Dr. Neal rawetz really look like!
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Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding sends an open SOS to the
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world after forgetting to brush his teeth nearly results in
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fatal halitosis.
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Watching the IRC suicide/accidental deaths of rippah/electrosk0t
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unfold
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Marty Roesch reaches midlife crisis; denies own obesity and
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the owning of snort.org
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|=---=[ Memorable people you have met
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The Blue Boar, at the very first Phrack High Council Ethics
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Roundtable
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The Rain Forest Puppy (sounds like an adorable stuffed animal
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from Mattel(C) but dresses in shiny reflective raver clothing)
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Captain Crunch (No thanks du0d I don't want you to open up my
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chakras with a special "energy massage")
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Ofir Arkin, world's leading ICMP fingerprinting technologist
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Honey Dew Moore, child hacker prodigy and world's leading
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exploit cataloguer
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Shok, world's foremost Mormon hacker
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Surprisingly, some actual hackers (various members of MoD),
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while attending HOPE, the worst con I've ever been to
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The Death Vegetable, largest carbon footprint of any netizen
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Packet Fairy
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|=---=[ Memorable places you have been
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spaf's mail spool (although I'd give it back in a heartbeat
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for a chance to take a joyride in his electric wheelchair
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instead)
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cvs.openbsd.org
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s1's famous "Studio 31337" HACKING FORT
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Rloxley's child porn archive
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|=---=[ How started PR0J3KT M4YH3M ?
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The idea obviously isn't something entirely new or original.
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The earliest known historical precursor to Project Mayhem was
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Erostratus, who set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
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one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Though his
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motives were questionable (he achieved the act merely because
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he had no other way of immortalizing his name), the base concept
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was there: destroying something beautiful just for the hell of
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it. Note: destruction and vandalism out of ignorance and fear
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are decidedly less noble in nature. Obviously, there was some
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inspiration from the novel, Fight Club. As far as scene-related
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influences, there were some early precursors... the venerable
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e-zine "CITADEL" and some of the better work of BOW (Brotherhood
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of Warez). ~el8 was probably the single biggest source of
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creative energy fueling PR0J3KT M4YH3M, and is still
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remembered to this day as the greatest, most revolutionary
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blackhat publication of all time. But what really kick-started
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PR0J3KT M4YH3M was the apparent lack of success of
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anti.security.is, a formal anti-disclosure movement constructed
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from a lucid and cogent document illustrating why it would be
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better for all parties in the infosec community to stop
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publishing exploit code. But as the US government is fond of
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saying of the Taliban, it soon occurred to many of us that
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these whitehats, like their white-turbaned friends in
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Afghanistan, "respond only to violence." Enter PR0J3KT M4YH3M,
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a spawn off PHC's Fight Club division. All in all, PR0J3KT
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M4YH3M had an impressive run, resulting in the ownage of high
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profile whitehats including Theo de Raadt, Kevin Mitnick,
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and Marty Roesch. IRC servers were conquered and their
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operators were vanquished. Prominent "hacker" magazines were
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stolen and leaked prematurely. Hard drives were dd'ed,
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tar'ed, gzipped', gpg'ed, and shipped off to snu.ac.kr.
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Codes of whitehats were backdoored and published
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unexpectedly. Violent/offensive/sacrilegious blackhat
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ASCII art was created. Heap exploitation tutorials were
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rebranded. Hitlists of the whitehat community were
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compiled. Info-security professionals were fired. Whitehat
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books & movies were leaked. g4yh1tl3r lived, died, and was born
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again. And we all had a lot of fun.
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|=---=[ Things you are proud of
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Closing Captains of Crush #2 (multiple times, with finesse)
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Coining several catch phrases which framed the zeitgeist of
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the blackhat movement of the early 21st century, including
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"w00w00 is p00p00"
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Becoming the first "hacker (over 5 ft. tall) on steroids"
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Transcending the blood-brain barrier
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Reading the last 5 issues of Phrack without learning anything new
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Stealthily avoiding all hidden toilet/shower cams at HAL 2001
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Becoming the first hacker to write exploit headers in ebonics
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Proud author of an exploit that appears bundled with O'Reilly's
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"Network Security Assessment" book, after infosec genius Chris
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McNab deletes comments/headers and submits it for inclusion
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Becoming the first person to rm a box from a cellular device
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(while at a nightclub ala "Swordfish")
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Coming from a family free of mental retardation/physical birth
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defects
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Demonstrating to the world repeatedly how stupid it is to be
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a whitehat
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Triumphing over hackers such as mosthated, missnglnk, gov-boi,
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ben-z, ytcracker, kf, and joewee to earn the title of "blackest
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man on efnet"
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Learning how to krump proficiently after watching only 15
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minutes of Rize
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Serving for several years as the High Chancellor of *.ac.kr
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and *.ac.jp
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Ordering the world's only team ~el8 tank top from cafepress.com
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World's fastest typer on sub-anaesthetic doses of special k
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Successfully masking my bipolar disorder in order to become a
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fully integrated and respected member of 'society'
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Rotating planes of polarized light counterclockwise around
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various enantiomers
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|=---=[ Things you are not proud of
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Ever having released code to the public
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Ever having posted to a security mailing list in which the
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intention of my correspondence was less than utter sarcasm,
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mockery, or malice
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Failed attempt at rm'ing def-con.org while at Defcon, due to
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network problems
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How underappreciated this prophile will inevitably be
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Not also ordering the "Countdown to rm" ~el8 wall clock from
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cafepress.com
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Unknowingly losing an underground ytalk speed typing competition
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to a rogue TIOCSTI program
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|=---=[ Opinion about security conferences
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There are any number of flawed reasons why people attend/speak
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at security conferences. If you're looking for recognition or
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publicity, you're probably better off committing suicide
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on Youtube (see "Budd Dwyer" Wikipedia for ideas).
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If you're looking for repulsive female companionship or fellow
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loser friends to socialize with "IRL," you'll probably save
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some time and airfare by checking your local Craigslist first.
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Otherwise, the proof is in the pudding. 10 years ago it would
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|
been inconceivable that there would one day be "security
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|
conferences" in retard 3rd world shitpile countries like Mexico,
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|
Malaysia, and Pakistan. Countries whose only contributions to
|
|
the progression of the digital age
|
|
have been the vigorous repeated typing of "jajaja" and "kekeke"
|
|
and "gf0rce pakistan!!!" in
|
|
various IRC channels and online message boards. Apparently,
|
|
high tech vocations have taken
|
|
over! My suggestion is to stock up on sombreros, Nikes, and
|
|
taxi cab medallions now before
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|
they become relics of the past.
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|=---=[ Opinion on Phrack Magazine 1985' ? 1995' ? 2005' ? '2007 ?
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I've always thought this magazine sucked, but in regards to
|
|
the specifics of the question at hand, it's probably gotten
|
|
steadily worse over time. OK OK... I'm sure the editorial staff
|
|
would like me to say something positive here so here's my best
|
|
attempt: "PHRACK MAGAZINE - Hey, at least it's not 2600!"
|
|
This will probably be the worst issue yet, but that's fine -
|
|
I'm just using this prophile as a mouthpiece for my dogma of
|
|
physical anabolism and moral decay.
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|=---=[ What you would like to see published in Phrack ?
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An article on phones! (Not VOIP!)
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Definitely more mail spools... a renewed focus on homemade
|
|
improvised explosive devices... maybe even some tutorials on
|
|
drug trafficking for newbies
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|=---=[ Shoutouts to specific (group of) peoples
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Doing (R.I.P.), tr4shc4n m4n, krad, odaymaztr, Funny Bunny,
|
|
module of rhino9, g4yh1tl3r, drater, the crazy Turk, Rocky
|
|
the virgin hacker Jesus, zilvio, all my Icelandic friends,
|
|
sk8, j & r, Hans Reiser (everybody on IRC talks about murder,
|
|
but nobody actually goes through with it), everybody on asylum
|
|
& its admin, my old friends from #!!ADM and #!hax, the
|
|
zoroastrian insomniac prophet & his partner in crime
|
|
|
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|=---=[ Flames to specific (group of) peoples
|
|
|
|
pm/gaius (hey did you know there's a facebook group for
|
|
HERT now?!?), hd moore & his ersatzsploit project (we
|
|
commend you on your entrepreneurial vision of turning your
|
|
look-mom-i-just-got-owned tcpdump logs into exploits with your
|
|
own name on them), Richard "Dick Theft" Johnson (1500+ on his
|
|
SAT; abject failure at real life), The Condor, THE WAREZ D00D
|
|
(your next ten bag of heroin will be cut with ricin), jobe,
|
|
Philip Emeagwali (father of the supercomputer/Internet),
|
|
slashdot, Valdis Kletnieks (if I can't pronounce your name,
|
|
it's time to kill yourself or go back to dragging a plow in
|
|
Latvia), "Dr." Neal Krawetz, Stefan Esser (currently being
|
|
hunted down by European PROJECT MAYHEM operatives with
|
|
instructions to sever the right hand in accordance with holy
|
|
e-jihad Shariah), Eric S. Raymond (still piecing back together
|
|
his ~ from backups after the brutal desecration of his OSI bazaar
|
|
via CVS 0day), Electronic Souls, hack.co.za, xfocus, nsfocus,
|
|
Souljah Boy, "Tiger Team", GNU, Jose Nazario, Luigi Auriemma,
|
|
tsao[IC], divineint (I'm sure the Singaporian government would
|
|
have had you caned by now for trading IRIX/VMS/DGUX/AIX/HPUX/
|
|
Windows src code if you weren't already in their employment),
|
|
Raven (congratulations on having a vagina... it's not even a
|
|
good one, but it's still better than your brain so you should
|
|
probably try hooking instead of thinking for a living), Don
|
|
"Beetle" Bailey, Ron Dufresne, Gadi Evron, lcamtuf, Ulf
|
|
H?rnhammar, jeff moss, pete shipley & other vampire hackers,
|
|
jericho, marcus ranum, chesswick & bellovin, lamo,
|
|
markoff/shimomura/mitnick, theo, knuth, dijkstra & other
|
|
CS theory fags, HACKER CRACKER
|
|
|
|
|=---=[ Quotes
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|
|
|
"WTF SAID I WAS A TRADER?" - The Warez Dude
|
|
"eye dont wipe logz" - Kareless KaRL
|
|
"I'm proud to say I have committed every sin in the Decalogue." -
|
|
Sir Richard Burton
|
|
"irc warfare isnt very fun when u can just vanquish your f0ez...
|
|
i feel like i go thru life with IDDQD on...walking thru firewalls
|
|
like IDSPISPOPD" - the_uT
|
|
"I hate to think that all the whitehats in the world are
|
|
concerned that phc members are busy hacking their home machines
|
|
when people are really playing ninja gaiden and hocking off their
|
|
computers to buy $1000 dogs." - gayh1tler
|
|
"While you were sleeping we helped ourselves" - Canaan Banana
|
|
"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all" - Mike Tyson
|
|
"I've got 5 words for you: drugs smuggled in presidential
|
|
baggage" - lu1g1
|
|
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian" - Mike Tyson
|
|
"I just want to conquer people and their souls" - Mike Tyson
|
|
"My power is so discombobulatingly devastating I could feel
|
|
his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous
|
|
these mortals even attempt to enter my realm." - Mike Tyson
|
|
"step in2 my e-z bake oven!" - gayh1tler
|
|
"I think my mask of sanity is about to slip." - Patrick Bateman
|
|
"its not nice to treat other people's boxes like toys-r-us" -
|
|
unknown
|
|
"With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in
|
|
vowels." - Fight Club
|
|
"Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted
|
|
children? So be it!" - Tyler Durden
|
|
"Eat your lima beans!" - Pavel "Papa" Sandrak
|
|
"A race condition is how fast you can hit the reset button when
|
|
you start hearing your hdd whine" - unknown
|
|
"We will achieve samadhi while meditating over s1's studio
|
|
31337 MOTD" - the_uT
|
|
"Like our great leader, this kernel module selects a child and
|
|
touches him in a very special way." - warez mullah, THE EMMANUEL
|
|
GOLDSTEIN LKM
|
|
"Cuz if you can take a fucking dick, you can take a joke" -
|
|
Immortal Technique
|
|
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the
|
|
world he doesn't exist" - The Usual Suspects / Baudelaire
|
|
"So I'm rapelling down Mt. Vesuvius, and my rope breaks and I
|
|
begin to fall and im falling, falling. Ahhhh, I'll never forget
|
|
the terror! Then I thought to myself, hey Hansel. Haven't you
|
|
been smoking peyote for 6 straight days and couldn't some of
|
|
this maybe in your head? " - Zoolander
|
|
"Shit! If I'd known it was going to be this kind of party I'd
|
|
have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes!"
|
|
"ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED? STOP CRYING AND FUCK YOUR OWN ASS
|
|
WITH IT" - facialabuse.com
|
|
"So don't ever talk shit. And remember something nigga, while
|
|
you rave and rant - a roach can live for nine days without its
|
|
head, but you can't" - Immortal Technique
|
|
"d00d thats not a LADY OF THE PEN, thats ___ from CUMFIESTA!" -
|
|
unknown
|
|
"Can somebody please tell me what the fuck A RED MAP is???"
|
|
"i did it 4 the lulz" - ANONYMOUS
|
|
"we dish out rm's like petri" - the_uT
|
|
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered
|
|
mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
|
|
Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - HST UNF UNF
|
|
"Behold I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" - Robert
|
|
Oppenheimer
|
|
"It is better to find 10 dead babies in 1 trash can than to
|
|
find 1 dead baby in 10 trash cans." - Unknown
|
|
"NIGGA, THE RM IS THE NEW EUGENICS... EUGENIX" - unknown hacker
|
|
"WTF SAID I WAS A TRADER?" - The Warez Dude
|
|
"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.
|
|
(I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look
|
|
at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the
|
|
page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it
|
|
is slow in real time." - Richard Stallman
|
|
"and it shows that you are a complete dork. you are disconnected
|
|
from reality. how can we take you for serious?" -
|
|
mbalmer@openbsd.org in response to Stallman, officially winning
|
|
at irony... FOREVERER
|
|
"2 FAST 2 FURIOUS 4 U" - the_uT, upon winning an underground irc
|
|
speed typing competition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|=---=[ Anything more you want to say
|
|
|
|
Looking back on my involvement in computers, I am very happy
|
|
that the peak of my activity occurred right during the turn
|
|
of the 20th century. Hacking was no longer as simple as manual
|
|
labor (wardialing etc.) but finding vulnerabilities and writing
|
|
exploits and tools was not exactly as tedious and prohibitively
|
|
time-consuming as it is currently. To say that I would rather
|
|
commit seppuku than adapt to the challenges of a changing world
|
|
by auditing code for SQL injection vulnerabilities and
|
|
client-side browser exploits is not an exaggeration. On the
|
|
upside of things, hardcore pornography is now far better and
|
|
more widely and freely available than ever, and productive
|
|
programming like UFC can be seen on channels like Spike TV for
|
|
free. Every day, more and more youngsters are born who are many
|
|
times more likely to contribute articles to socially useful
|
|
publications such as Encyclopedia Dramatica instead of 2600.
|
|
Spreading terror and wreaking havoc for "epic lulz" have been
|
|
established as viable alternatives to contributing to open
|
|
source software projects. If you're a kid reading this zine for
|
|
the first time because you're interested in becoming a hacker,
|
|
fucking forget it. You're better off starting a collection of
|
|
poached adult website passwords, or hanging out on 4chan. At
|
|
least trash like this has some modicum of entertainment value,
|
|
whereas the hacking/security scene had become some kind of
|
|
fetid sinkhole for all the worst kinds of recycled academic
|
|
masturbation imaginable. In summary, the end is fucking nigh,
|
|
and don't tell me I didn't warn you... even though there's
|
|
nothing you can do about it.
|
|
|
|
Good night and good luck,
|
|
- the UNIX TERRORIST
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|
|
|
|=[ EOF ]=|
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