Have you seen this craziness? For those who’ve never heard of DigZine: it’s a “hacker” zine similar to Phrack. This is what puzzles me. Phrack.org hasn’t been closed down. So why DigZine?

This ought to be a freedom of speech/free press issue. 2600 Hacker Quarterly has survived as long as it has largely because it’s a printed magazine – the printed press is afforded protection by the Constitution. But the US authorities are comfortable about persecuting webzines. It’s clear to me that this is wrong. There’s no real difference between a regular, printed-on-paper magazine and a webzine. So they should both be protected from over-zealous cops. Unfortunately, that isn’t how the world works. And if a website is on servers located in the USA, that website has virtually no protection from the evil morons in power.

Incidentally, if you scroll down to the bottom of that web page, you’ll see your ip address and some rubbish about how the Dept Homeland Security will log your ip and investigate you. Then, at the end it says:

Be aware that disguising or concealing IP information shall be considered a criminal violation of section 814 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Should you suspect that your IP address and host have been improperly recorded, contact a DHS representative immediately.

This is a blatant violation of the right to privacy. Using an anonymous proxy or some other anonymiser to protect your privacy is illegal? The US government has got right into the role of Big Brother. You don’t need a tin foil hat to realiize this.

But what tips this over into absurdity is the fact that any idiot with a web browser can view Digizine.com and its archive of seditious literature. All you need to do is go to the Wayback Machine. This is an archive of the internet: snapshots of what the internet used to look like. You go to the Wayback page and type in the URL of the site you’re interested in – say, Digizine.com – then click the button marked “Take Me Back!” This brings you to a list of dates when snapshots of the site in question were taken. In the case of Digizine.com, you can see that snapshots were taken most recently in 2007. So, you choose a date from the list and click it. In this case 8 Jan 2007. And this takes you to an archived copy of the website on that date.

So, we can visit this evil site despite the DHS’s best efforts to censor it. We can view the archive of the DigiZine e-zine and read all that treacherous content that the US govt wants to protect us from! (There’s a link to the magazine archive here.)

But if you take the time to view the e-zine, you’re gonna wonder why in hell the DHS wants to block this site! The last issue was released in 2006. And the content is, on the whole, a lot tamer than what you can find elsewhere. This censorship makes no sense. Then again, when do any of the DHS’s actions make any sense?

Thing is, the content of Digizine.com is irrelevant. The point is, just about any website that the DHS want to “protect” us from can be accessed via the Wayback Machine. The US govt wants to keep us ignorant? No sweat, information always finds a way out of bondage. The internet is based on the idea that information wants to be free. And archive.org is a shining example of that freedom!

Digizine.com censored by Dept Homeland Security

I created a really small bash script so that I could download all the phrack magazines and have them in the current directory. Just create a directory named , for example, “Phrack” and then run the script within this directory.

The final result: all the files will be listed as, Phrack-1, Phrack-2 , ….

here is the snippet,

#! /bin/bash

# simple script, downloads the 65 magazines of phrack.

baseurl=http://www.phrack.com/archives/tgz/phrack
file=.tar.gz

for ((i=1;i<=65;i++))
do
    wget  $baseurl$i$file        # downloading files
    tar -zxvf phrack$i$file        # untar
    mv $i Phrack-$i            # rename 1 to phrack1
done

save it using your favorite text editor, and make it an executable giving:
Command: chmod +x <your_file> ,

and finally run it as
Command: ./<your_file>

Happy phracking

Talk about ballsy for a computer nerd, Max Butler used his nerd powers to take over the ID theft market by knocking out the servers of the leading market forums and the emailing their users about his own consolidated market.  Seriously, thats like fire bombing every corner in a city and telling the d-boys they can all work your block.  On top of providing the market, Butler was also shopping his own product under various names.  Smart dude….kinda.  Too bad he got media crazy and his partner was too busy eating drugs.

Some people just love to be in prison.  Back in prison for his third stint, Butler has started a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Full article @ Wired

Kamis 17 April 2008

Holla,,

Tanggal 12 bulan ini Phrack magazine kembali mengeluarkan issue yang ke #65 nya, Phrack magazine merupakan salah satu majalah bawah tanah tertua yang masih tetap eksis sampai hari ini, pertama kali di terbitkan tanggal 17 November 1985 (sudah cukup tua untuk umuran sebuah majalah ) majalah phrack memperbolehkan siapa saja yang memiliki ide dan karya original untuk menjadi penulis di majalah nya.

Untuk issue kali ini phrack magazine di dalam file tgz nya terdapat beberapa artikel yakni :

# Introduction (as usual :p)

# Phrack Prophile on The UNIX Terrorist

# Phrack World News

# Stealth Hooking: another way to subvert the Windows kernel

# Clawing holes in NAT with UPnP

# The only laws on Internet are assembly and RFCs

# System Management Mode Hacks

# Mystifying the debugger for ultimate stealthness

# Australian Restricted Defense Networks and FISSO

# phook – The PEB Hooker

# Hacking the $49 Wifi Finder

# The art of exploitation: Technical analysis of Samba WINS overflow

# The Underground Myth

# Hacking your brain: Artificial Conciousness

# International Scenes

Untuk keterangan lebih lanjutnya silahkan dibaca saja langsung di situsnya http://phrack.org/

Ja nao ouvia falar da Phrack vao anos, pensei até que ja tinha deixado de ser escrita. Para quem nao está a par dela, a Phrack publicada desde 1985, ja chegou inclusivamente a ser proibida nos EUA, e muitos dos seus autores foram perseguidos na famosa operação SUN Devil, que culminou com a criação por parte de alguns perseguidos e seus amigos ou simpatizantes da agora influente organização Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Como dizia a phrack possui diversos temas que vao de abordagem de programação a redes, sempre critica a alguns esquemas de implementação dos mesmos abordando as suas falhas e vulnerabilidades. Os artigos sao bastante tecnicos, bastante mesmo, exigindo um conhecimento de programação em C, estruturas de memoria, blocos de memoria e electronica.

E o (in)esperado acorre, após quase 2 anos sem novidades ocorre um lançamento de uma nova edição da revista PHRACK [1]
[1] PHRACK – Edição 64