-------[ Phrack Magazine --- Vol. 9 | Issue 55 --- 09.09.99 --- 01 of 19 ] -------------------------[ P H R A C K 5 5 I N D E X ] --------[ Return of the Genius Loci ] Lies! Lies! Lies! Lord of the Lies. That's me. I promised a timely Phrack and look what happened. A 9 month lapse. Whew. Wow. Ri-friggin-diculous. Holy crap I suck. To all you patient/ambivalent readers out there -- terribly sorry about that. To all you whiners/complainers in the end, it just goes to show you: Fuck Off. For all you people that contributed nothing except negative commentary over the past few months, I'd like to introduce you to the real world. The real world is where free computer security technical journals don't pay bills or get you chicks. Or get you chicks that pay bills for that matter. THAT'S THE WORLD I LIVE IN. TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU I WOULD CHANGE IT IF I COULD. But I can't. So I do what I do to make ends meet. Sometimes it gets in the way. Hrm. You think 9 months is bad? Let's take a look at the publishing history of Phrack Magazine, since its inception, way back in November of 1985. I present to you the publishing schedule of Phrack Magazine from 1985 - 1999. ______________________________________________________________________________ Jan | 02? 10 23 52 Feb | 03 11 24 Mar | 04 12 25 37 42 45 Apr | 05 13 17 26 38 47 50 May | 31 Jun | 06 18 27 39 Jul | 14 19 43 53 Aug | 15 40 Sep | 07 33 46 48 51 55 Oct | 08? 16? 20 28 34 Nov | 01 21 29 32 35 44 49 Dec | 09? 22 30 36 41 54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ok.. Things look pretty good for the first year... 8 issues in one year. Not bad fellas, not bad... Uh-oh! A 6 month gap between 16 and 17! What's up? Apparently, the editors at that time (Phrack's founding fathers TK and KL) had gone off to college and left the Magazine in the hands Elric of Imrryr. Mmmhmm. A FLIMSY EXCUSE! The next large gap we see is between 32 and 33. Apparently there was some crap going on having to do with the Secret Service shutting Phrack down and something about issues 31 and 32 not being sanctioned or something... Blah blah blah. Ok great. This was like 8 years ago. Who the hell carez. At any rate, things appear to be pretty much business as usual after that. Then something amazing -- Chris Goggans takes over. First a 3 month gap. Then a 4 month lapse. Then back down to 3. Then up to 5. Then 6. Then the unthinkable happens. A 16 month coma. THEN YOURS TRULY TAKEZ OVER AT THE HELM AND BREATHEZ SOME LIFE INTO THIS DEAD BODY! BOOM BAP! Check out THESE NUMBERS: 2 months, 4 months, 4 months, 3 months, 5 months!... Um. 9 months. Ok. Well. Oops. My point is... Well. 9 months isn't as bad as Goggans. So there you have it! Basically, when all's said and done, at the end of the day, I am not as bad as Goggans. In any event, this issue has a surplus of good articles. Read them. In other news, we heard a nasty rumor. Starting September 11th, 1999 Network Solutions "the dot com people" (*how adorable*) are going to start their policy of requiring prepayment at the time of domain-name registration. What does this mean to you? NO MORE FREE DOMAINS FOR THREE MONTHS! No more `try before you buy`, no more `cooling-off` period. If you fuck up and register `masster-ninja.com` brother, you're stuck with it! So check your spelling. Oh yah. I have something very un-P.C. to say, something very controversial... Something you're not going to like.. But I have to say it: GOD BLESS CANADA! WAIT. HOLD ON. Before you rm this issue, give me a chance to explain why Canada rules. If it wasn't for Canada, there would be no t00nces. There. That's the sole reason why Canada rules. If it wasn't for t00nces, there would have probably been a murder at the last Phrack sponsored BBQ (or at the very least, some serious battery). On 3 separate occasions he quelled major rucki. The largest of which would have resulted in drunken dirtbag being pummeled into chowder. He would have been a little smudgie on my front lawn. As much as I am usually down for a drunken dirtbag pummeling, we can't have that at the house. t00nces is an all-around great guy. He's definitely my favorite Canadian-American citizen. Besides. I lost our Country's pride when I played him in our monthly America vs. Canada pool game. My penance was to write a treatise on how much Canada rules. Well. The best I can do is how much t00nces rules. Phrack Magazine mourns the recent passing of W. Richard Stevens. For a special tribute, please see P55-04. Enjoy the magazine. It is by and for the hacking community. Period. -- Editor in Chief ----------------[ route -- Phrack World News --------------[ disorder -------- Elite --------------------> daveg -- Official Phrack King Crab ------[ loadammo -- Official Phrack Girlfriend ----[ A.R.A. -- B.A. Baracus Phrack Fracas -----[ PETE F. vs. KRIS C. -- Official Phrack Long Gun -------[ Bennelli M1 Super 90 (tactical) -- WHOA HO HO ---------------------[ aaronb -- Netris Championz ---------------[ prym & ReDragon -- Ketel One Connoisseur ----------[ vision -- Official Phrack Bouncer --------[ t00nces -- Congratulations to -------------[ W.O.F. and N.R.A. -- Special Thankz to --------------[ kweiheri, kamee -- Shout Outs and Thank Yous ------[ h4g1z, felix, WAYNE, rfp, nocarrier, dug -----------------------------------| song, incr, dreck, nicnoc, e5, sw_r, -----------------------------------| greg hoglund and dark spyrit, sangfroid, -----------------------------------| dnm - You're not in the club if -------[ you don't recognize half of these people Phrack Magazine V. 9, #55, September 09, 1999. ISSN 1068-1035 Contents Copyright (c) 1999 Phrack Magazine. All Rights Reserved. Nothing may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the editor in chief. Phrack Magazine is made available to the public, as often as possible, free of charge. Go nuts people. 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The people who make Phrack are not Knight Lightning and Taran King, from those old BBS days. They are people like you and me, not very different, that took on themselves a job that it is obvious that is too big for them. Too big? hell, HUGE. Phrack is not what it used to be anymore. Just try reading, let's say, Phrack 24, and Phrack 54." - bjx of "PURSUiT" trying to justify his `old-school` ezine. bjx wrote a riveting piece on "Installing Slackware" article. Fear and respect the lower case "i". "We might get a PURSUiT meeting at DefCon 9 which will take place in year 2001. Meenwhile, it's an idea, because I belive 40% of the PURSUiT crew are going to DefCon 9, so we will try to convince the rest of the crew to join us." - bjx of "PURSUiT" on his distant defcon plans. Hey, buddy, if you save a dollar a day for the next two years, you should have enough! 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