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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume 0x10, Issue 0x46, Phile #0x0e of 0x0f
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|=----------------------=[ Segfault.net eulogy ]=------------------------=|
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|=-----------------------------=[ skyper ]=------------------------------=|
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2019/DEC/04
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RIP SEGFAULT.NET, THANK YOU AND GOOD BYE
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22 years of hosting hackers has come to an end.
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Segfault.net started hosting hackers in 1997. The main goal has always
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been to provide infrastructure for hackers and to support them.
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Hacking was still in its infancy. Servers were hard to get by. Documents
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had to be forged, rack space had to be rented and the server had to be
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custom built.
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Thank you to all the people who participated and all the project we hosted.
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It was home to team-teso, thc, hert, hackinthebox, phrack.org, ircsnet and
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many others.
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It was the gateway to the internal Teso Lab that hosted more than 10 further
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computer systems of different architecture and OS versions. Countless
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exploits were developed and tested here. Gamma provided blueboxed Internet
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connections via Brazil, Columbia and other C5 countries to unleash those
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exploits.
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IRCSNET became home to so many awesome discussions. I believe it was the
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first SSL-only IRC network spanning over 4 servers at its peak and hosting
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hundreds of conversations.
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We provided encrypted and secure shells to so many talented people that it
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is eye watering.
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There were some hard times as well. Nokia suing us, the BKA (German FBI)
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knocking on the door, our IP address being routed via Fort Meade or the
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hosting company saying they will host us for free 'because they were big
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fans of us' (yeah, right - we moved segfault.net to 1and1 immediately...
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damn fedz).
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Hosting at 1and1 was probably best. The guy responsible for hacking
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incidents and government relationship....he was on our payroll.
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Segfault.net prevailed and nobody ever got arrested or caught.
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Times have changed now. Shells and servers are easily available.
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DigitalOcean, AWS or google clouds are cheap and hassle free. Those
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are much harder to trust or to make secure (uploading a virtual machine
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is probably the best). Governments are more aware now. Yet, they are as
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ruthless and ignorant as they have always been. Beware of governments as
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they do not know what they are doing.
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Segfault.net was the birth place to so many great ideas, tools, products
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and companies. Thank you all.
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Good bye and Good luck and Keep Hacking,
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dd bs=4k if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
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|=[ EOF ]=---------------------------------------------------------------=|
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