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"We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity."

    --- Quote from John Perry Barlow in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace on February 8, 1996.


"Long live the underground!  When the underground is gone, when the people's will to resist overbearing government and kneejerk morality is gone...  Then, shall I be able to declare America dead."

    --- Quote from Jello Biafra, a frequent HOPE keynote speaker.


"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

    --- Quote from George Orwell (Eric A. Blair [1903-1950])


"Anyone who stands up for what he believes in is an inspiration.  That's the spirit of a hacker, and it's the spirit of an individual."

    --- Quote from Evil Corley during an Off The Hook broadcast.  (I don't remember which one.)


"It's a question of freedom of speech, something that has stood up for the last couple hundred years, and I think the Internet should definitely continue the tradition."

    --- Quote from Evil Corley on Off The Hook, June 18, 1996.


"... Freedom of speech, on the other hand, is something that is universally sought after and recognized as valuable."

    --- Quote from a reply to a letter by William R. Epp in Vol. 18, No. 3.


"As you probably know it you've read our pages before, we have some major issues with entities who abuse power and intimidate individuals..."

    --- Quote from a reply to a letter by "anonymous" in Vol. 20, No. 2.


"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

    --- Quote (paraphrased) from Albert Einstein used in Vol. 23, No. 1.


"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

    --- Quote from George Bernard Shaw used in Vol. 33, No. 1.


"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is public relations."

    --- Quote from George Orwell used in Vol. 32, No. 1.


"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

    --- Quote from James Madison used in Vol. 22, No. 1.


"9.) I will aid the voiceless in obtaining a voice and help them evade censorship so they too can enjoy the fundamental human rights of free speech."

    --- Quote from Ghost Exodus (Jesse McGraw) in his article "No Country for Incarcerated Hackers" in Vol. 35, No. 3


"Recognizing the content of the wikileaks.org website is the subject of concern to a variety of individuals and nations, we nevertheless believe it must be subject to the same laws and policies of availability as all Internet sites.  Free expression should not be restricted by governmental or private controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential components of the Internet."

    --- Quote by The Internet Society from the article entitled "The Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue" in their membership newsletter.


"We have learned a great deal in watching the reactions of our various leaders.  We see how the surveillance of so many aspects of our lives is supported by politicians of both parties and how deep the cover-up goes.  We also see how they have no problem changing the rules behind our backs to make these inexcusable actions 'legal.'  Shining the light on their subterfuge is about the most patriotic act we can think of."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 30, No. 3.


"Change does not come about from mindlessly following the rules.  That's how dictatorships are maintained.  Change is achieved through constant experimentation, the exchanging of ideas, and the freedom to do so.  A society that views such things with suspicion is one that is doomed to stagnate and eventually fall."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 22, No. 3.


"We may not like hate speech but it is within our rights to read it, listen to it, or watch it if we so desire."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 23, No. 3.


Cult of the Dead Cow - Then
Cult of the Dead Cow - Freedom



Hackers Now

CENSOR!  ATTACK!  BAN!  DELETE!  SHUN!  CANCEL!  DEPLATFORM!  SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!


Cult of the Dead Cow - Now
Cult of the Dead Cow - Fascism

What Would (((Jello))) Do?  Sell-out and become a tool for the Deep State & One Percent.

2600 Kicked Off of YouTube for Sarcastic Remark
$2600 has now felt what many other content providers have felt after being censored for a seemingly meaningless, off-the-cuff remark.

RussiaPalestine!  Iraq!  Iran!  Syria!  Yemen!  Don't question anything!  Be a good goyim and fight our, err... your enemy!


    jews attack kanye west
War is peace.
    
Freedom is slavery.
  adl attacks twitter  twitter fag cake
Ignorance is strength.

"By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.  The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.  All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days.  Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial.  ...  Meanwhile the ruling (((oligarchy))) and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."

    --- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1958.


"At press time, Parler was no longer in service.  We're not mourning its loss and don't believe it ever offered anything of value.  We would certainly like to see alternative social media sites that aren't batshit crazy, as having everyone using only a couple of different sites is far from ideal."

    --- Quote from a reply to a letter by "Jason" in Vol. 37, No. 4.  Ironic, as $2600 is one of the most "batshit crazy" publications out there...


"Someone in this group reported me and got my account blocked for 24 hours over something that wasn't even that serious.  I'm unhappy about that and I've never ever had someone do something so petty."

"I keep getting muted from the 2600 group without explanation.  What am I doing wrong here?"

"Unfortunately, I've been blocked for seven days from posting for no apparent reason.  I would like to read the guidelines as suggested, but when I go to read them, it says the post has been removed or deleted.  Can someone please send me the guidelines and, if possible, tell me which I violated?  I thought I posted a supportive humorous meme, but I'd like to follow the rules."

    --- Letters in issue Vol. 37, No. 4 regarding censorship of posts (and users) on the $2600 Facebook groups.


"We believe in science.  We support removing fascists from platforms.  We want monopolies broke up.  And we demand accountability.  Saying these things really pissed a lot of people off.  So we're saying them again in case we missed anyone."

    --- Quote from a $2600 Twitter post in May 27, 2021.  $2600 Magazine openly attacks the scientific method, believes that MEN can become pregnant or turn into women if they chop off their pee-pee, thinks Chelsea Manning is an actual female, openly supported (and voted for!) the fascist (((Obama and Biden regimes))), profits from complaints about the government's mess of the (((breakup))) of the the Bell System or has never once mentioned the monopolistic & private "Federal Reserve" as they slowly increase the price of their magazine to $9 and the banks demand more "bailouts," doesn't want anyone to show an ID to vote, but they do use IDs (and encryption) on their own computer networks.  And worst of all, has done NOTHING to expose the "accountability" of the FBI & Hillary Clinton's "Russian collusion hoax" or the FBI & Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop and China COVID-19 origin stories, or all the other various Biden-family bribery schemes - all in order to affect the outcomes of the 2016, 2020, & 2024 presidential elections.


"... Nowadays, Off The Hook is filled with sycophants who dare not disagree with political views, no matter how misguided, or he will scream at them.  Literally.  The only personality brave enough to even attempt to disagree and reason with him at times is Alex (whom I applaud), but even his attempts are half-hearted and shouted down."

    --- Quote from a letter by "J.X." in Vol. 38., No. 3 discussing their views on what Off The Hook and $2600 have turned into.


"... Anthony Fauci is a good scientist.  Serious electoral tampering did not occur on the Democratic side (investigations into Trumpian tampering are ongoing on federal and state levels).  I don't say these things because I download my opinions from the mainstream media.  I say these things because of a compelling pattern of evidence from reputable sources..."

    --- Quote from a letter by "James" in Vol. 38, No. 2.  $2600's reply was: "Thank you for making these points better than we ever could."  All those statements "James" made are demonstrability false.  Dr. Fauci has been caught red-handed lying to Congress, the media, and the American people and actively covered-up his involvement in the creation of the China COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the potential deaths of millions.

Bernie Sanders actually won the Democrat primary nomination in Wisconsin (and in other states), and through the WikiLeaks' emails we now know that Hillary Clinton and the DNC basically stole the 2016 nomination from Bernie S.  And people think Trump is crazy for saying they stole the 2020 election too...

(Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan  Including estimated "800,000 ballot applications sent to non-qualified voters" - bags of prepaid gift cards, guns with silencers, burner phones, and a Democrat-funded organization with multiple temporary facilities in several states.)

(Evidence of Foreign Nationals Accessing Dominion Voting Machines Leaked to Public)


"Comparing demonstrators and even common rioters to a President-led storming of the nation's Capitol building is a poor attempt to minimize the significance of the latter.  Blaming groups like Black Lives Matter for everything you dislike only shows how easily you can be convinced that people who are different from you are nothing short of pure evil."

    --- Quote from a reply to a letter by "pinkbathtowel" in Vol. 38, No. 1.  $2600 is trying to compare the deadly (((Black Lives Matter))) chimp-outs which caused billions of dollars in damage and killed at least 19 innocent people to the Constitutionally-protected Jan. 6 election integrity (unarmed!) protests where the only death was the result of an unqualified, affirmative action negro Capitol police officer killing an unarmed woman (and veteran) for no reason (and the assault and resultant death of motionless woman [Roseanne Boyland] on ground.)  Also, Mr. Trump had nothing to do with the "riot," as proven over-and-over again...

Also note that at HOPE X, $2600 praised the jewish supremacist and war monger (((Emma Goldman ✡))) for being a "dissenter."  Really...  Emma Goldman is best known for helping plan the assassination of U.S. President McKinley (!) which set the stages for pushing the U.S. and Europe into (((World War 1 & 2))) resulting in the deaths of millions of innocent Gentiles, and the creation of private (((central banking ✡))) in the U.S.  I'm pretty sure that is a textbook definition of "pure evil," and just a tad bit worse than a bunch of people walking around the Capitol building with a police escort...

Also, I bet January 6, 2021 was the first time those traitorous assholes working in the U.S. government realized their boss was John Q. American and not Shlomo Shekelstein on Wall St.  BTW, George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose...

("Do Your Non-Uniformed Guys Have Any Identifiers"  SHOCKING Capitol Police Video Uncovered from Jan. 6 Shows Undercover and Armed DOJ On Site - IT WAS A SETUP)

(Capitol Police Chief Called Jan. 6 Events 'A Cover Up' in Tucker Carlson Interview HIDDEN by Fox News  Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that events surrounding the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol appear to have been a "cover up," in never-seen-before footage published exclusively by The National Pulse.)

(MORE HORRIFIC J6 FOOTAGE HAS BEEN RELEASED!!

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"Hurr durr.... Deadly insurrection!  Derp... Worse than 9/11!
Avenge Ashli Babbit!
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"And again, this fallacy that we're in favor of some sort of approved speech doctrine is a load of horseshit.  We will stamp out hate speech wherever we see it.  We will continue to shut down overt racism in every forum.  And we will not tolerate anti-democratic attempts to subvert legal elections and overthrow legitimate leaders or deny people the right to vote."

    --- Quote from a reply to a letter by "6NdLXzc2" in Vol. 38, No. 1.  $2600 REFUSES to stamp out hate speech on (((CNN ✡))) or (((MSNBC ✡))).  They also refuse to shut down overt racism by Steve Rombom ✡, Kevin Mitnick ✡, Chuck Schumer ✡, AOC ✡, etc., or even shutdown $2600 meetings in apartheid Israel.  They also refuse to condemn the phoney racially-motivated President Trump (((impeachment ✡))) hearings.  And don't expect them to stand-up to the anti-democratic attempts to subvert our elections by the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, Twitter, Facebook, FBI, and WEF!

And remember when Obama and his jew handlers overthrew a legitimate leader elected in Ukraine in 2014, and Evil Corley didn't say a single word about it?


"A number of our own readers in this issue's letters section expressed their outrage at our opinions on the matter in 37:4, which encouraged responsible providers on the Internet to stop hosting forums for movements that refused to acknowledge scientific facts or that advocated such actions as overturning democratic elections and installing unelected leaders (Mirror).  While we continue to believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, we don't subscribe to the belief that all opinions deserve the same platforms.  We believe providers have the right to determine what they consider to be acceptable and what they don't, even when we disagree - and everyone has the right to pressure them to do the right thing."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 38, No. 1  Many of those censored "unscientific facts" have since turned out to be true...  Jan. 6 was a nothing-burger exploited by (((Democrats))) to seize power, China COVID-19 may have been man-made in a Chinese lab partially funded by the U.S. government and U.S. corporations, the number of deaths was grossly overinflated to get government hand-outs, the lock downs caused more problems than they solved, especially for young children, low-cost alternative vaccines were actively suppressed by (((Big Pharma))) in collusion with (((Big Tech))), and those cheap masks did very little.  $2600 also wants illegal aliens to vote in U.S. elections, thereby "overturning" the will of legitimate U.S. voters.  That editorial also contains the quote: "There is nothing at all political about a pandemic."  LOL!

  
Election Interference by Evil Corley and the One Percent
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"While everybody has the right to free speech, that doesn't mean they can say or do whatever they want on a system run by others.  It's only if someone is forbidden from speaking by the authorities in any setting that we can start talking about true violations of free speech.
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While we agree that we'd be better off with a whole lot of smaller companies and less mega-giants, we still need to ensure that falsehoods, anti-science sentiment, and hate speech doesn't become empowered and allowed to dominate as it has been."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 37, No. 4.  The FBI, CIA, DHS, White House, and DNC forcing Twitter and Facebook to censor certain conservative users in order to effect the outcome of the 2016 and 2020 elections is a "true violation of free speech" according to $2600.  Just don't expect them - or people like (((Cindy Cohn ✡))) at the EFF - to do anything about it...  Also, there is really no such thing as (((hate speech)))."  "Hate speech" is anything which effects Evil Corley's power grabs.  "Truth sounds like hate to those that hate truth."

  
More Censorship by Evil Corley and the One Percent
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"And when the site tried to find hosting in other countries, one by one they were cut off due to the outrage and bad publicity.  Is it right to cut off speech of any kind in this manner?  We believe it is when the decision is being made independently of any government regulation.  In other words, these people still have the right to free speech and they can say whatever they want.  But such reprehensible speech will generate a reaction and nobody should be forced to help them along.  Are there hypocrisies and double standards that can be found when making these decisions?  Undoubtedly so.  That doesn't take away from the guts required to stand up and say 'enough.'  We don't have to simply stand around and continue to watch the ugliness.  Resisting isn't always a neat process."

    --- Quote from the editorial in Vol. 34, No. 3.  $2600 was calling for MORE censorship of so-called "neo-Nazi" websites after the Charlottesville incident.  Video of the event shows that landwhale leftist, Heather Heyer, was NEVER hit by Fields' car and the coroner's report stated she died of a heart attack due to being obese.  We now know fascist Dwayne Dixon pointed his gun at James Fields and Fields fled in his vehicle, rightfully fearing for his life.  This event was then exploited by Evil Corley and the One Percent to shut down anyone (and any website) who exposed those in power...  You know, what hackers used to do...  Do you think Corley will ever apologize for spreading these lies?  BTW, DailyStormer had their .com domain STOLEN by (((Google))).  They illegally took away access to a domain they didn't own.


Only five years in prison for targeting Trump voters!  Where's Evil Corley?


    

"Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air.  His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.  To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of (((democracy))), to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.

That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.  Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink."

    --- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , 1949.



Destroy $2600

PepeEvil Corley and the One Percent are an existential threat to our democracy and must be stopped AT ANY cost.

They are currently engaging in the greatest assault on our freedoms which we have ever seen.  

What we're seeing with $2600 today is far more nefarious, as well-organized (((groups))) seek to influence massive amounts of people with fear, hatred, false information, and an unhealthy sense of paranoia.  They encourage violence and want a far less democrat system in place, one where they reap the benefits and those who aren't like them are kept from having any power, to put it mildly.

  
  
Free Douglas Mackey!
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To say the Obama/Biden/Corley cult, err... administration is unlike anything we've experienced before would be a massive understatement.  We speak for many when we say that we were expecting a degree of crackdowns, closures, regressions, anger, fear, and the like, but what we've gotten so far leaves us almost speechless.

Almost.

It's well accepted that Joseph "China/Ukraine/Israel First, America Last" Biden is incompetent, racist, sexist, and an overall jerk, among many other things.  This comes from people who have been in his inner-circle, fellow members of his party, foreign dignitaries, business partners, employees, and a whole lot more.  This is before even introducing political opponents, the media, and the majority of Americans who voted against him - for forty years.  $2600 refuses to outline all of the damage he has caused in his nightmare of a term.  For that, we suggest the media and the commentaries that Evil Corley refuses to pay attention to.

We cannot think of a more traumatic time for so many people to have lived through at once.  There have been many difficulties in the past with various travesties of justice in our own world.  We've seen wars and invasions carried out in our name, and we've witnessed the nation transformed by September 11th.  But apparently, all of that was the equivalent of training wheel for what we've been experiencing of late.

It's worth noting that $2600 has been especially friendly towards those in charge.  They openly supported, voted for, and campaigned for Clinton, Obama, and those (((politicians ✡))) in New York who supported Bush's war(s) for Israel.  But what we've experienced with Biden's reign has something quite unique and especially dangerous.  To try and normalize that period by equating it with the others would be a tremendous disservice to anyone who truly cares about freedom and the great potential this country holds.

However, all of this default antagonism that we're always prepared for in any administration doesn't begin to cover what seems to be ahead on the Obama/Biden/Corley cult-like agenda.  In an incredibly brief time, we've seen the non-mainstream press defined as the enemy of the people, the demonization of documented immigrants with a nationalistic zeal that should worry anyone who's ever picked up a history book (except for Ukraine ✡ - the money laundering and organ & child trafficking capitol for Democrats - they'll start World War 3 to protect Ukraine's and Israel's borders...), statements that unfairly castigate entire religions and nations, racial insensitivity, embracing of conspiracy theories, lack of meaningful dialogue, favoritism of an epic proportion resulting in unelected individuals being catapulted into positions of great power, huge and damaging conflicts of interest that are willfully ignored, unprecedented incompetence in vital posts, lack of knowledge or interest in history and world affairs, threats of military action within our own borders, a wanton disregard for the fragile environment of our planet, extreme insecurity and hostility when confronted with criticism, accusations with no supporting evidence... we could keep going, but odds are you're already aware of most of this.  And all of these are ingredients vital to the rise of fascism, something we've never really experienced in our country.  Sure, we have problems that need to be dealt with, as does any country.  How such issues are handled is what defines a society and we are far from alone in being exceedingly troubled with what has happened so far.

Perhaps the core of what's most disturbing here is an attitude that somehow Obama/Biden/Corley and their cult-like ilk believe they don't have to abide by the same rules as everyone else:

"I have not taken a penny from any foreign source at any point in my life... Nothing was unethical... My son has no made money from China...  Clap for that, you stupid bastards."

We've seen this assumption of privilege rear its ugly head before in Biden's previous life.  It's up to all of us to make sure we remind him and his supporters at every opportunity that this is not how it works.  Because once it is, any hope for a functioning free society is lost.

We all know it's possible "legally" to come up with all kinds of words to allow great injusices to be gotten away with.  But morally... that's another story.  That is where we must apply our efforts without any hesitation.

This brings us to the infamous tax returns dealing with shady business connections to Ukraine and China, the ones that Joe & Hunter Biden believes nobody cares about, the ones that he can continue to hide from the American public.  It's no secret that the majority of people do care and, while legally he can hide them from us while lying about the reasons, morally it's indefensible.  How can anyone assert that we don't have the right to know what is being claimed on this form while we're entrusting him with such great power and responsibility?  Mistruths and cheating will quickly be revealed if they are there.  So too will the absence of these things, a revelation that will help the healing process begin and instill some much needed trust.

"Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.  It's realty [sic] an honor and pleasure."
      --- The main email obtained by the New York Post is an April 2015 message that the newspaper said was sent to Joseph Bidens's son, Hunter Biden, by Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma's board.

"'I looked at them and said: I'm leaving in six hours.  If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money,' Biden infamously bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018.  'Well, son of a bitch.  He got fired.'"
      --- Then-vice president Biden admittedly pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into getting rid of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin investigating Burisma (and Hunter!) by threatening to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee during a December 2015 trip to Kiev.

"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made was not fulfilled.  Tell the director I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.  And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.  I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
      --- Hunter Biden text message to Chinese Communist Party-linked business man Henry Zhao.

While Donald Trump's tax returns showed he actually LOST money.  Joe Biden, a man who has never held a real job in 50 years and who Evil Corley VOTED FOR, is somehow a millionaire...

While members of the public can claim the right of privacy in not sharing their IRC logs when chatting with any male under the age of 18, it's pretty much an unwritten rule in our society that Evil Corley should display his honesty in this public manner.  Yes, it's unwritten, meaning Corely doesn't have to do it.  But the consequences of rejecting this tradition, as with many other voluntary actions that are expected of a hacker magazine editor, could have a very detrimental effect on our society... and the resulting ripples would be felt throughout the world.  Being in such a privileged position means sacrificing some of one's privacy - as has been done for decades - in the interests of open and transparent democracy.

Clearly, Corely has not been willing to do this.  And, equally troubling, his allies on $2600's "Staff" page are prepared to prevent this information from becoming public.  In July & August every two years, $2600's staff have unanimously blocked the efforts of other hackers to obtain Evil Corley's IRC logs.  Yes, they have the ability to obtain them and put this all to rest, but they chose to continue covering it up instead.

If I had $10,000, I'd offer it to anyone who could get us these elusive IRC logs from Evil Corley.  Now that he's the "leader of the hacker world" with more scandals and cover-ups in the first 40 years of publishing than most hackers have had in their entire lives, this can no longer be thought of as remotely funny.  We all have the right to know just how Evil Corley is running things.  Maybe we should reinstate our offer and make it potentially much bigger...  (That's a joke, if I had $10,000 I'd buy a new spectrum analyzer instead!  But where were these idiots when Obama was - and still is - refusing to show a valid birth certificate?)

There are basic values that we learned way back in the early days of IRC, surprisingly enough.  It was great to have a forum for everyone to communicate and share opinions.  But when people became disruptive or abusive, it was time to step up and say the right thing: Goodbye $2600.

We cannot be afraid to say this, whether it's on a chat network, in social media, at a conference, on network television, or in the halls of Congress.  Continually allowing for the amplification of vile rhetoric or outright lies intended to cause mayhem is a sign of weakness, not fairness.  It's time we all did more to stop what can rightfully be called a disease.

When having discussions, there have to be certain facts that are accepted by everyone or nothing ever gets accomplished.  Lately, we've been mired in an almost unbelievable environment where established facts no longer seem to matter.  This can't continue.

We all know people who have bought into this fiction.  Some have woken up, many haven't.  We shouldn't be surprised or overly judgmental.  This sort of thing has happened many times throughout history.  People make bad choices based on what they're told by others whom they trust.  It can be helped along with fear, anxiety, prejudices, and outright hatred.  To say each of us as individuals doesn't have the potential to be led down a similar dark path is as ignorant as the assumption that this sort of thing somehow could never have happened here.

It's part of the human condition, which is why we have to hold the door open for our fellow humans who believed in something that turned out not to be true.  And at the same time, we cannot allow those who perpetuate the lies to get another chance to do it even better.  Remember, they are still out there and, if encouraged, they will make more attempts to get their way.

Let's put aside the racism, sexism, ultra-nationalism (except for Ukraine ✡, a puppet-state controlled by U.S. oligarchs for money laundering purposes), and overall ignorance of domestic and world issues that Obama/Biden/Corley have become known for - and which, incredibly, seem to make them even more popular.  You can read specifics on all that almost anywhere else.

What we need to focus on here is what a Obama/Biden/Corley presidency would mean to the hacker world and to technology, the Internet, and free speech.  It's not pretty.

    

    

    

"The whistleblower alleges that a leader of CTI League, a 'former' British intelligence analyst, was 'in the room' at the Obama White House in 2017 when she received the instructions to create a counter-disinformation project to stop a 'repeat of 2016.'"

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"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community and they have six ways to Sunday to getting back at you."  --- Quote from (((Chuck Schumer))).

Save the Free Speech on the Internet!
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It's painfully clear that Obama/Biden/Corley don't understand how the Internet works.

But that won't stop them from dictating how they believe it should work and making the lives of anyone who gets in the way absolutely miserable.  The disdain with which those concerned about freedom of speech are referred to makes it abundantly clear that such people will not be looked upon kindly in a Obama/Biden/Corley administration.  And when such freedom is seen as a threat, it's the beginning of a significant downward spiral.  How do you suppose Obama/Biden/Corley would deal with an anonymity network like Tor?  Or the use of encryption?  Or hackers in general?

If Trump had been in power, Russian WOULD NOT have invaded Ukraine ✡, and the outcome could have been very different.

While he could only call for a boycott against them as a candidate, he could have taken actions to cripple (((those in power))) as president.  And it wouldn't have ended there.  The impact to technology companies, not to mention our very right to privacy would be severely impacted with (((Big Tech))) trying to censor information in order to manipulate our elections to keep Trump from winning.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Trump is FALSELY attacked by phoney organizations like The Free Press Action Fund ✡, EFF ✡, ACLjU ✡, Facebook ✡, CNN ✡, and MSNBC ✡.

So there's that.  Now try and imagine what his attitude and shoot-from-the-hip mentality would actually do to the world of hackers.  Obama/Biden/Corley have publicly called for the execution of conservative White Americans, which ought to give you an idea of how anyone who embarrasses their regime would be treated.

We've all had these uncomfortable interactions with individuals who believe hackers are the equivalent of terrorists and, if these people had their way, all of the hackers would be locked up or worse.  We can laugh when it's a misguided relative at Thanksgiving because they're only speaking their minds and they really don't know any better.  But give someone with such massive gaps in knowledge the power to actually get their way and it quickly stops being funny.  Look at the history of fascism in the last century and you'll see that it always starts with someone in power echoing people's misguided perceptions that revolve around fear and misinformation.

Not only does the power make these thoughts turn into policy, but it also emboldens more misguided members of the public to become authorities, and ultimately monsters.  Before you know it, the mere suspicion of being different or of posing a potential problem is enough to have someone prosecuted, locked away, or simply kept from living a normal life.  There is no nation on Earth that is safe from this sort of threat.  Believing otherwise is the quickest way to learn that lesson.

We don't doubt that some will see this as an overreaction, to which we say it's a nice contrast to the underreaction we've been seeing over the past year.  Obama/Biden/Corley are not just three unqualified and dangerous people; they represents many more who have no qualms about putting policies of hatred and anger into practice.  We've seen it happen before and we'll see it happen again.  If there's one thing we've gained from the Obama/Biden/Corley campaign, it's the realization that we are not immune.  Sometimes change isn't funny at all.

How You Can Help

The easiest way you can help fight Evil Corley and the One Percent, their allies in the Deep State, survive the Biden/Corley/BlackRock/FTX/SVB "economy," and undermine & boycott a New York business supporting their state's political corruption and election interference, is by NOT PAYING for issues of $2600 Magazine.

While this is mostly symbolic (Evil Corley & Co. are rich) - it is still a start.

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    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 21, No. 4.

"We continue to maintain that there is nothing at all illegal about making your own copy of something you own."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 19, No. 3.

"For the record, and for the benefit of some people (like certain corporations and judges) who can't understand why a hacker magazine has a copyright, we encourage people to send our articles to other people."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 17, No. 3.

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    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 19, No. 1 asking about copying articles.

"Several years ago it would have been almost unheard of for a corporation to bully someone into submission on the Net using nothing but its might.  Today we seem to hear of a new case every day."

    --- Editorial in $2600 Magazine Vol. 17, No. 2.

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Volume 1

$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 1 (January 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 2 (February 1984)

  • Hacking on Telenet  - Beginner's guide to GTE's Telenet system and a command overview, by Evil Corley
  • ESS: Orwell's Prophecy  - Info on the new ESS offices and how they operate, by BIOC Agent 003 (Donald Burgio)
  • 2600 Flash
    • Times Changing for Directory Assistance
    • No Hacking While Flying, Please
    • Trick of the Month
    • Death Star Cards Spell Woe
    • ADS Investigation Moved?

  • Some Thoughts on "Garbage Picking"  - How to dig through garbage for information and some notes on cross-talk
  • Letters  - (none given) (California)
  • Country Codes & City Code Formats  - Long-distance country and routing codes


$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 3 (March 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 4 (April 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 5 (May 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 6 (June 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 7 (July 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 8 (August 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 9 (September 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 10 (October 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 11 (November 1984)



$2600 Magazine Volume 1, Number 12 (December 1984)

  • A Time for Reflection  - A look back over the year, by Paul G. Estev
  • MCI Mail and Easylink Updates  - Electronic mail horror stories and billing problems
  • The Scariest Number in the World  - Story (fake?) about calling the president's bomb shelter, by Mr. French
  • 2600 Flash
    • Computer Makes it Easy for Reagan
    • Penetrating the Pentagon by Phone
    • First of the "Superminis"
    • Students Bog Down Computer
    • SBS Offers Toll-Free Service
    • Electronic Jail All Screwed Up
    • Video Telephone Invention
    • Federal Telephone System Update

  • Subscriber Comments  - Reader survey responses
  • Electronic Mail Systems  - List and price comparisons of some electronic mail and voice mail services
  • Dial-It Numbers  - Funny phone numbers, by Paul D. Lehrman


Volume 2

$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 1 (January 1985)



$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 2 (February 1985)



$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 3 (March 1985)



$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 4 (April 1985)

  • What a White Box Can Do  - How to build and use a portable DTMF tone generator
  • A Phone Phreak Scores  - Social engineering and phreaking story
  • Hacking Packard  - Hacking HP-2000s, by BIOC Agent 003
  • 2600 Flash
    • At the Last Stroke...
    • Good Apples for the Soviets
    • Hackers Go Free
    • Robot Kills Man
    • 'Santa Fraud'
    • Overseas Pirates
    • Real Life WarGames?
    • Silver Pages
    • Other News

  • Letters  - Puzzled, Chuck Linder, Informed as Hell, (none given), (none given)
  • Hosts by Location  - ARPANET MILNET host locations


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 5 (May 1985)

  • People Express to be Hacked to Pieces  - Hacking the People Express Touch-Tone reservation system, by Paul G. Estev
  • How to Run a Successful Teleconference  - Complete guide to ALLIANCE teleconferencing, by The Shadow
  • 2600 Flash
    • 414 Bust
    • Police Hacker Cleared
    • Dial-a-Directory
    • Reagan Hangs Upon Kids
    • MCI Goes to U.K.
    • Yellow Scam
    • "Crackers" Cracked
    • Carrier Choosing Time
    • Mystery Transistor

  • ALLIANCE Teleconferencing  - Diagram of the steps needed to setup an ALLIANCE teleconference
  • Letters  - (none given), The Crazy Man
  • Inmate Payphone Ad


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 6 (June 1985)

  • A Guide to the Israeli Phone System  - The phone system in Israel
  • Sherwood Forest Shut Down by Secret Service  - Sherwood Forest II & III BBSes raided for posting credit card numbers
  • Some Words on Hacker Morality  - Don't sell other people's BBS files
  • Review: Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security  - Book review of Bill Landreth's Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security
  • 2600 Flash
    • Bell Didn't Invent Phone?
    • Porno Phone Service Busted
    • IRS Drives Telcos to Drink
    • Jersey Wins Wiretap Race Again
    • AT&T Computer Caught Stealing
    • Say Goodbye to Meter Readers
    • Thai Phone Books a Hot Issue
    • New Tracking Device for Cars
    • Problems for New Payphones
    • TINA Message Service
    • AT&T Contractual Obligations
    • "Call Me" Card

  • Letters  - (none given), Rusty Diode, (none given), The Silver Sabre
  • 800 Prefix List  - List of 800-NXXs by state, by Ax Murderer
  • Systematically Speaking  - Goodbye to meter readers, Thai phone book, tracking devices, TINA "Call Me" card.
  • Sherwood Forest: Intro to Hacking  - Beginner guide to computer hacking, by The Knights of Shadow


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 7 (July 1985)

  • Interesting Things to Do on a DEC-20  - Commands and hacking info for a DEC-20, by The Knights of Shadow
  • Banking From Your Terminal - A Look at PRONTO  - A look at electronic banking and Chemical Bank's PRONTO banking system, by Orson Buggy
  • 2600 Flash
    • $2 Billion Error
    • ITT Crackdown
    • GTE Sprint Cheats Customer
    • Listening In on Cellular Phones
    • More Phone Fraud
    • Computers Monitor Truckers
    • Missing Children's Faces Displayed

  • Letters  - (none given), (none given) (Birmingham, Alabama), (none given) (Gulfport, MO), (none given)
  • MILNET TAC Dial-Ups  - MILNET dial-ups
  • Systematically Speaking  - MCI goes optical, 100% ESS, GTE bigger than AT&T


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 8 (August 1985)



$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 9 (September 1985)

  • A Guide to VMS  - Beginner's guide to DEC's VAX/VMS systems, by Lex Luthor
  • The Infinity Transmitter - An Old Bug That Had Its Time  - How the infinity transmitter phone tap works, by Howard
  • Reaching Out on Your Own  - Using a Blue Box to simulate Busy Line Verification (BLV) conditions, by Forest Ranger (John Thomas)
  • Pursuit for People  - Info on Telenet's PC Pursuit computer-to-computer link-up service, by Paul G. Estev
  • 2600 Flash
    • Phone-in Registration for College
    • Trouble With 800 "Word Numbers"
    • War Game Addict
    • Hacker Extortionist Caught
    • Pitcairn Island Now On AT&T Net
    • Private Sector Update
    • Dick Tracy Toys Are Closing In
    • Directory Assistance By Computer
    • Pest Control
    • Bell Propaganda Films
    • Europe Standardizing Telecoms

  • Letters  - D.J., SEVOX, Talbot, (none given), W.U. Friend
  • Telenet Directory  - Telenet address scan and banners, by Lex Luthor
  • Systematically Speaking  - Dick Tracy toys, computer directory assistance, Bell propaganda films, Europe standardizing telcoms.


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 10 (October 1985)

  • And They Call US Crooks?  - Getting ripped off consulting telcos and why he can't sell his expertise, by Silent Switchman
  • An Interesting Diversion  - How call diverters work and are abused, by Lord Phreaker
  • More Info on VMS  - Second part to the beginner's guide to DEC's VAX/VMS systems, by Lex Luthor
  • 2600 Flash
    • Computer Elections Examined
    • Two Inch Thick Bill
    • Navy Calls Dial-a-Porn
    • Navy Phone Phreaks Nabbed
    • Phone Booth Captures Man
    • Telco Rats On Government
    • Hackers Have Big Business Scared
    • Fiber-Optic Network For Du Pont
    • Campaign Contributions On-Line
    • AT&T Info Charges Upheld
    • More Use of Phone Computers
    • More Divestiture Woes

  • Letters  - L.L., The Long Distance Voyager and The Knight in White Satin, Person, Lord Phreaker
  • Blue Box Plans  - Schematic for a Blue Box, by Ford Prefect (Steve Richardson)
  • The New AT&T Hostagephone System  - Ad for a hostage negotiation phone
  • Systematically Speaking  - Hackers scare business, DuPont bypasses telco, computer campaign info, phone computer's divestiture woes


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 11 (November 1985)

  • RSTS: A Trick or Two  - Hacking info for the DEC's RSTS operating system, by The Marauder (Todd Lawrence, Email #2)
  • Here's the Secret!  - Non-supervised (no billing) loop-around test lines on a GTE GTD5, by Silent Switchman
  • The History of ESS  - The history of the Western Electric ESS, by Lex Luthor
  • 2600 Flash
    • Columnist Attacks AT&T
    • No Dial-it Calls for Feds
    • Dial-it Sex Numbers Argued
    • Big Deal for Little Town
    • Springsteen Mania
    • Avoid Phones in Storms!
    • Rural Customers Denied Access
    • Police Dept. Wants Cellular Phones
    • Toll-free From Where?
    • Pacific Cable Planned
    • Free Kiddie Dial-It Calls
    • AT&T to Read E-Mail

  • Equal Access May Not Be "Equal" to Modems  - Billing problems with autodialers, by The Shadow
  • Letters  - HAL-9000/Beast 666, Lord Phreaker, a.e., Worried Phreak
  • Test Numbers  - List of telco plant test numbers, by The Shadow (Shadow 2600 - Dave Flory - died 1989)
  • The Early Phreak Days  - Story of phreaking in the 1960s, by Jim Wood
  • Systematically Speaking  - Avoid phones in storms, rural unequal access, police cellular phones, toll-free from where?, AT&T to read email


$2600 Magazine Volume 2, Number 12 (December 1985)


Volume 3

$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 1 (January 1986)

  • Private Sector Returning  - Return of the Private Sector BBS.  Back online soon, but many questions on seizure remain, by Evil Corley
  • Divestiture: What Happened?  - An explanation of that which is confusing the populace on the aspects of the AT&T breakup, by Evil Corley
  • 2600 Flash
    • AT&T Does It Again
    • Five Aliens Hung Up
    • Technology Nabs Hooky Players
    • Home Computer Attacks Falwell
    • Another Astronomical Phone Bill
    • Dial-A-Porn Update
    • Phone Booth Wins Again
    • New Payphones Confuse Callers
    • Security Software
    • Your Own Private Centrex
    • New VAX Announced
    • Cray Maneuvers
    • Overcharge Hunters Needed
    • Phone Service via Radio Shack

  • Letters  - Ford Prefect, Arab149, The Creature, The Grub (Canada)
  • Blue Box Programs  - TI-99, Commie 64, Atari code for generating MF tones, by Ford Prefect (Steve Richardson)
  • Systematically Speaking  - Confusing payphones, code abuse software, Centrex features in your house, VAX8650, overcharge hunters


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 2 (February 1986)

  • VMS - The Series Continues  - Additional info on hacking DEC's VAX/VMS systems, by Lex Luthor
  • It Could Happen To You!  - Story of phone phreaks harassing other phreaks
  • Dial Back Security  - Info on how "dial back" security works and some ways to defeat it
  • 2600 Flash
    • Teenagers "Abuse" Party Line
    • A Unique Obscene Caller
    • The Scoop on Pen Registers
    • Reporters Steal Swiss Phones
    • Payphone Causes Panic
    • Sprint Unites with US Telecom
    • Write Protect Tabs Wrong
    • Bell Atlantic & MCI Collaborate
    • Cellular Phones in England
    • Infrared Beeper Will Find You
    • Electronic Tax Returns Are Here
    • Acoustic Trauma

  • Letters  - Artful Dodger, Field Support, Fellow in Utah, John J. Williams, Mojave Dessert
  • Interesting Phone Numbers  - Interesting phone number list
  • Systematically Speaking  - Spring and US Tel merge, write protect tabs wrong, Bell Atlantic chooses MCI, cellular phones in England, infrared beeper, electronic tax returns, acoustic trauma


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 3 (March 1986)

  • An Overview of AUTOVON and Silver Boxes  - Info on the Department of Defense's AUTOVON phone system and how it uses those extended DTMF tones
  • An American Express Phone Story  - Story about hacking the toll-free charge card authorization number, by Chester Holmes
  • Final Words on VMS  - Security info and tips on DEC's VAX/VMS systems, by Lex Luthor
  • 2600 Flash
    • Hacker Zaps Computer Marquee
    • Soviets Denied Computer Access
    • Who Called The Shuttle?
    • New Ways Of Stealing Data
    • Computer Password Kept Secret
    • Satellite Jammers Jammed
    • TASS News Service
    • Soviet Computer Update
    • Dial The Yellow Pages
    • Northern To Destroy COs
    • There Are More Phones Than Ever

  • Letters  - Corporation, Dissenting Opinion, DIAL, Various People, Scan Man, A Subscriber in Pa.
  • This Month at 2600  - Private Sector's return, Computel and Compuserve, Telepub '86, a postal miracle
  • Systematically Speaking  - Jamming satellites, TASS news service, Soviet computer update, dialing the Yellow Pages, Northern Telecom to destroy COs, more phones than ever


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 4 (April 1986)

  • RSTS for Beginners  - Beginner's guide to RSTS/E on DEC PDPs, by The Marauder
  • Mobile Phones - Theory & Construction  - Info on Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) and building your own dialer, by The Researcher
  • 2600 Flash
    • British Phonebooth Wedding
    • Man Worries About Sprint Bill
    • Bad Tenant Databases
    • Car Breathalyzers
    • Phone Phreak Fined
    • Marcos Phones For Free
    • 617 Will Be Divided
    • Congress Chooses AT&T
    • Baby Bells Don't Pay AT& Bills
    • Equal Access 800 Drawbacks
    • Encryption Provides Signature
    • Directory Assistance Failure
    • Dial "00" For Operator

  • Letters  - A Reader, Ben Harroll, (none given), Heyzeus Arguillis, NYNEX Phreak (Charles Andrew Hope)
  • A Story of Eavesdropping  - Listening to conversations during World War 2
  • This Month at 2600  - Transcripts of the Private Sector raid, more on Computel
  • Systematically Speaking  - 617 to be divided, Congress chooses AT&T, Baby Bells don't pay AT&T bills, equal access 800s, data encryption, DA failure, AT&T loses its zero


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 5 (May 1986)

  • Exploits in Operator Hell  - Harassing the operators in Alaska, by The Alaskan Phreak (TAP)
  • The Computel Scoop  - Info on the magazine Computel which was believed to be related to TEL
  • 2600 Flash
    • Bellcore Publications Go Public
    • US and France Link Phones
    • Computer Grammar
    • Shower Phone?
    • Cellular Modem
    • High Tech Parking Meters
    • Congressional Computer
    • Wrestlemania Pins Bell
    • Sting Boards on the Rise
    • American Network Fears Hackers
    • Free Pay-Phones Plague New Jersey
    • Bogotá, Columbia Gets Extra Digit
    • Patients May Get To Keep Phones
    • Beware of Hacker Terrorists

  • Letters  - MM (Dublin, Ireland), MS, The Doctor, J in Boston, WP, The Hooded Claw, Unlisted Number
  • AUTOVON Translations  - Translations for AUTOVON numbers, by The Creature
  • Systematically Speaking  - Wrestlemania pins Bell, sting boards on the rise, American Network fears hackers, free payphones plague New Jersey, disposable phones, hacker terrorists
  • Boxing on ITT / SBS Skyline  - Boxing tips and code info


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 6 (June 1986)

  • Computer Crime Review  - Review of a report from The National Center for Computer Crime Data
  • How to Hack a Pick  - Beginner's guide to hacking the Pick operating system
  • Review: The Computer Underground  - Book review of M. Harry's The Computer Underground, by John Drake (Mark Bennett)
  • 2600 Flash
    • New York's Computer Law
    • $6,829 Phone Bill
    • Big Computer Crime Pays
    • Public Phone Secrecy
    • Capitol Hill Hacker
    • Citibank Money Games
    • Hands Across Telenet
    • Kiev Calling Clogged
    • NYNEX Bumps Southwestern Bell
    • Stock Market Crash
    • "Ed Quinn Cell Site"
    • Let's Move To France!

  • Letters  - Twilight Zone The Phreaker (London, England), JN (Illinois), Lord Peter Wimsey, Dr. William Wainwright, John Smith Hacker, Seagull, PV, (none given), Right Track
  • Special AT&T Services  - Various phone numbers
  • Resources Guide  - Various groups and publications on computer security
  • Systematically Speaking  - Hands across Telenet, calling Kiev, NYNEX bumps off Southwestern Bell, stock market crash, cell site names, videophones


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 7 (July 1986)

  • Violating a VAX  - Trojan horses, obtaining passwords, and other VAX/VMS hacking tips, by Baalzebub
  • The Free Phones of Philly  - Skyline providing free long-distance from payphones, by Chester Holmes
  • 2600 Flash
    • Town on Hold During Strike
    • Prisoners Break Law
    • Hacker Degrees?
    • New Jersey Tops Taps
    • Ex-Fed Tapped
    • SS Numbers Returned To Citizens
    • Computers Strike Again!
    • Federal Employees "Tracked"
    • AT&T Selling Payphones!
    • Automated Operators Coming
    • Cellular Dial-By-Voice
    • New British Phone Service
    • No Data Protection for Hong Kong
    • 74,000 Calls to Fraud Line
    • Federal Phone Failure
    • Indiana Telco Threatens AT&T

  • Letters  - Shadow 2600 and Kid & Co., Howard, kl, Untitled, SF
  • Country Codes  - Country code list from Telecom Digest
  • Systematically Speaking  - AT&T selling payphones, automated operators, cellular dial-by-voice, new British phone service, no data protection for Hong Kong, Congressional fraud hotline, federal phone failures, Indiana telco threatens AT&T


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 8 (August 1986)

  • Knowing UNIX  - UNIX hacking tips, sending email, and some simple C code, by The Kid & Co.
  • A Trip To England  - Phreaking story from England, by John Drake
  • 2600 Flash
    • Phone Fraud in Governor's House
    • BB Watching VDT Operators
    • LD Companies Strike Back
    • Leave Our Poles Alone!
    • Phone Booths Mauled Then Stolen
    • The Ghost in the Machine
    • USSR Computer Hungry
    • ATM's in China!
    • Cash Machines Are Popular
    • TV Blue Boxes
    • New Chip Helps Sprint
    • Government Phone Fate?
    • Rural Radio Phones
    • "Debugging" Phones

  • Letters  - The Stopper, Rees Morrison (Scarsdale, New York), j, Stake Out
  • Carrier Access Codes  - List of 10xxx PIC codes  (Updated List)
  • NPA Exchange Count  - List of area codes and the number of exchanges in each
  • Systematically Speaking  - USSR computers, ATMs in China, NYCE, TV Blue Boxes, government phones, rural phone radios


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 9 (September 1986)

  • Some Facts on Supervision  - Information on phone call answer supervision signals, by The Kid & Co.
  • RCI & DMS-100 Bugs  - Long-distance extender bug
  • Another Stinger is Stung  - Another sting BBS operated by John Maxfield and Mike Wendland of WDIV TV.
  • 2600 Flash
    • NSA Drops DES
    • Hackers On Shortwave
    • BB Traffic Cop
    • Crosstalk Saves Old Lady
    • Indian Phones Under Siege
    • "Signature" On Video Transmitters
    • FBI Shopping List
    • Poor Connection Starts Bomb Scare
    • GTE Sprint Overbills
    • FCC Gives Away "Resource"
    • AT&T Best For Hackers
    • Portable VAXes!!!
    • Computer Clothing
    • Message On the Move
    • Call Rejection In Natchez

  • Letters  - Lord Phreaker, TCCFBT, Joshua Falkon, Friends in faraway places, Curious, Captain Zorg, Hal-9000/Beast 666
  • Interesting Numbers of Winnipeg  - Fun phone numbers in Canada  (Page 2)
  • Systematically Speaking  - GTE Sprint overbills, AT&T ranks #1, portable VAXes, call rejection


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 10 (October 1986)

  • Death of a Payphone  - Payphone secrets and how to mess up a payphone, by MAD!
  • Trashing: America's Source for Information  - How to dig through phone company garbage for information, by The Dragyn  (Steven Nygard, Austin, Texas)
  • 2600 Flash
    • FBI Investigates Coffee Machine
    • CIS Copyrights Public Software
    • Navy Software Available
    • HBO Encryption Broken
    • Pennant Ties Up Phones
    • Security Can Kill Creativity
    • Indiana "Fones" Are Gone
    • Electronic Tax Returns
    • Software Makers Crash BBS
    • Poor Service An Understatement
    • Rural Ultraphones
    • Local Toll-Free Numbers
    • ESS Goes To Taiwan
    • NSA Wants a New Chip

  • Letters  - Psycho (California), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Crazy Eight, Long-Distance Voyager, Wize owl (Hilo, HI), Mr. Tracer, Het Kap, Bernie S.
  • Interesting London Numbers  - Fun phone numbers
  • Systematically Speaking  - Electronic tax returns, software makers crash BBS, ICN, Ultraphone, ESS in Taiwan, NSA wants new chip
  • Ancient Bell Labs Advertisement  - Bell System Ad for Touch-Tone signaling


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 11 (November 1986)

  • ICN - More Than a Bargain  - Info on Independent Communication Network phone service, by John Freeman and Evil Corley
  • Mastering the Networks  - Info on some of the larger computer networks (ARPANET, BITnet, etc.) and their email syntax, by John Anderson
  • 2600 Flash
    • Voice of Reagan Tortures Patients
    • FBI Actions Anger Parents
    • "Q" and "Z" Controversy Rages
    • More Banks Link Arms
    • Sprint - Too Many Customers
    • More Magic Buttons
    • New Payphone Service for Michigan
    • Nickname Listings In Small Town
    • Computer College

  • Letters  - Amadeus, Frustrated in Miami, Reader on the Pacific, Private Sector Subscriber, Any Mouse, NYNEX Phreak
  • British BBS Numbers  - BBS number list for the U.K.
  • Wrath of God Strikes 2600  - They really are the dumbest people on the planet
  • Systematically Speaking  - Bank link arms, Sprint has too many customers, new payphones, nickname listing, computer college


$2600 Magazine - Volume 3, Number 12 (December 1986)

  • Cellular Telephones - How They Work  - How Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) cellular phones work, by Bruce Alston
  • Things We're Not Supposed To Know About  - Info on the Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) HBO hack, by Sir William
  • 2600 Flash
    • How Not to be Rejected
    • Phreaks Tie Up Lines
    • North Carolina #1 in Hacking
    • International Hacking
    • Computers Threaten Privacy
    • Telco Says "Pay for Tones"
    • Loophole in Wiretap Law
    • Free Directories For Bigwigs
    • PC Pictures
    • Fingerprint Identification System
    • Buy My Wires
    • Navigate With A CD
    • IBM Braille Compatible
    • Who Wants To Be Swept?

  • Letters  - John Freeman (Ann Arbor, MI), BA, TOTE (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico), Bernie S., Michael Marr (Dublin, Ireland), (none given)
  • Net Mail Sites  - Networks carrying electronic mail
  • Systematically Speaking  - Free directories, fingerprint ID system, navigating with CDs, sweeping for bugs


Volume 4

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 1 (January 1987)

  • TAP: The Legend is Dead  - Info on the ending of the TAP newsletter, by The Cheshire Catalyst
  • Stumbling Into Control on a VMS  - VMS hacking tutorial, by The Mole
  • Telecom Informer  - British Telecom info, by Dan Foley  (David Flory, The Shadow, Shadow 2600)
  • Illegal Megahertz  - Analog cellular frequencies
  • Letters
    • Beepers  - da
    • GTE Telcos  - Arthur Dent
    • Preacher Hams  - Phil
    • Student Restrictions  - An "English Soccer Fan"
    • An Acronym Maker  - The Gladiator
    • More TAP Woes  - Arab149
    • 800 Directories  - Cocopelli
    • Searching for ANI  - Also frustrated in PA

  • Phone News  - Phone news
  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 2 (February 1987)

  • Hugo Cornwall Interview  - Interview with Peter Sommer, (a.k.a. Hugo Cornwall), Britain's most famous hacker/author, by John Drake
  • COSMOS Guide  - Overview of Bellcore's Computer System for Main Frame Operations (COSMOS) frame/OE management system, by Sir William
  • Telecom Informer  - Phreaking news, by Dan Foley
  • Nasty Business  - MCI and Sprint letters
  • Letters
    • Some Suggestions  - The Perpetrator
    • Some Numbers  - Silver Bandit
    • On Cellular Phones  - The New Age Phreaker
    • ANI Trouble  - (none given)

  • Book Review: The Hacker's Handbook  - Book review of Hugo Cornwall's The Hacker's Handbook, by Roland Dutton
  • New Developments  - Touch-Tone (DTMF) service charges
  • Book Review: Automatic Teller Machines III  - Book review of Consumertronics' Automatic Teller Machines III, by Lord Phreaker
  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 3 (March 1987)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1987)

  • Computel Put to Sleep  - Computel hacking magazine out of business
  • Hacking PC Pursuit  - Using PC Pursuit out-dials on Telenet, by The Cheshire Catalyst
  • Telecom Informer  - Phreaking news, by Dan Foley
  • CN/A List  - Customer Name & Address number list
  • Letters
    • Communication  - (none given)
    • More ANI's  - JA (Florida)
    • Comments  - Kirk (California)
    • French Loophole  - The Cote D'Azur
    • Stuck on Busy  - F.B.
    • Praise  - (none given)
    • Criticism  - RDM (Texas)
    • Advice  - A Reader
    • A Warning  - (none given) Newark, NJ
    • Coin Test  - Box Tester
    • More Resources  - Het Kapittel
    • In Reply  - MAC???

  • Goings On  - Various news bits
  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 5 (May 1987)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 6 (June 1987)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 7 (July 1987)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 8 (August 1987)

  • The Summer Games of '87  - Editorial
  • TRW Credentials  - TRW credit history and their lack of security, by Rex Valve
  • Phone Numbers  - Interesting phone number, by NYNEX phreak (Charles Hope)
  • Telecom Informer  - Phone news, by Evil Corley
  • FBI Revealed  - Review of Glen L. Roberts' The FBI Project Newsletter and The FBI and Your BBS newsletters, by Evil Corley
  • AT&T Submarine Map  - How to social engineer submarine (underwater, intercontinental) cable system charts, by Bernie S.
  • Capturing Passwords  - DEC Control Language (DCL) script for capturing VAX/VMS passwords, by Texas Toad
  • Letters
    • CNA/CPA Questions  - Samuel Rubin
    • ITT Switching  - The Primal Wombat
    • Hotline Numbers  - Frank B.
    • Monitoring Cellular  - Stingray
    • An Experience  - The Sorcerer
    • Phone Literacy  - Audio O'Sirkit

  • A Hacker Survey  - Reader survey of hackers, by Evil Corley
  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 9 (September 1987)

  • Worldnet: Getting Closer Every Day  - Overview of early ARPAnet, BITnet, and UUCP networks, by Hank@Taunivm.Bitnet (Hank Nussbacher)
  • Operating With Difficulty  - New York Telephone operator troubles, by Wintermute (Peter Zatloukal)
  • Telecom Informer  - Phone news, by Al Fresco
  • English Dial-It Service  - Recordings and announcement list for England, by John Drake
  • Letters
    • Notes and Replies  - Rainer Mueller
    • An Explanation  - The Sorcerer
    • Newsstand Update  - Curious
    • Misinformation? Us?  - Worried and Upset in Arizona

  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Review: CO Magazine  - Review of a good telecom monthly journal, by Dan Murphy


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 10 (October 1987)

  • New York's IMAS  - Integrated Mass Announcement System overview, by Mac+
  • Telco's Response  - Telco response to Touch-Tone fee, by Bruce Reisman
  • Telecom Informer  - Phone news, by Evil Corley
  • International NUA's  - Tymenet and Telenet Network User Addresses (NUA), by The Greek
  • South African BBSes  - South Africa BBS list, by The Greek
  • Letters
    • Verification and Tracing  - Joshua Falkon
    • Missing Blue Box Chip  - KM
    • BBS Numbers  - HAL 9000/Beast 666
    • Getting Started  - JS
    • Private Sector Style  - (none given)
    • More on Disclaimers  - John J. Williams
    • And More  - N.E. Mouse
    • British Payphones  - John Drake

  • Those Silly Codes  - Bellcore Common Language Location Identification (CLLI) code information
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Contest Results


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 11 (November 1987)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 4, Number 12 (December 1987)

  • Important News  - Editorial
  • Hacking IBM's VM/CMS System: Part 2  - IBM 43XX-series and 30XX-series VM/CMS info, by Lex Luthor
  • Telecom Informer  - Phone news
  • All About BLV  - AT&T TSPS Busy Line Verification (BLV) information, by Phantom Phreaker  (Curt Richard Wilson)
  • Social Interaction With Phones  - Stories about phones in our culture, by Dave Taylor
  • Letters
    • Switch-Hook Dialing  - JS (Dallas, TX)
    • Pen Registers  - Norman Bates
    • Evil Happenings  - Pala Jones
    • Canadian Questions  - PG (Toronto, Canada)
    • The Truth Revealed  - The Cheshire Catalyst
    • Ingenious Solution  - Sgt. Pepper of Texas
    • How Do Inmates Do It?  - The Hooded Claw
    • BBS Thoughts  - P.A.Z.
    • The Missing Chip  - (none given)
    • Yet Another Telco Ripoff  - Mary M. (Cornland, IA)

  • Roman Hacking  - Overseas tales of hacking and phreaking, by Hal from Rome
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Long-Distance Horror Tales  - MCI tale of trying to set up a long-distance carrier


Volume 5

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 1988)

  • Monitoring Phone Calls With a TVRO  - Listen in on international telephone calls using a satellite receiver
  • More on VM/CMS  - VM/CMS article corrections and additional info, by VM Guru
  • Weathertrak Codes  - Codes for a telephone weather system
  • An Interpretation of Computer Hacking  - An interpretation of computer hacking by a complete fraud, by Captain Zap  (Ian A. Murphy, DOB: 01-25-1957)
  • Private Sector Scam Revisited  - Evidence from the Private Sector raid
  • Letters
    • More Secrets  - Doom
    • Encouraging Words  - A Friend in Texas
    • Still More Secrets  - (none given)
    • A Very Special Number  - (none given)
    • Tales of Hackers  - The Hooded Claw
    • Advice Wanted  - (none given)
    • Of Phones and Politics  - Skinhead Steve and The Boy
    • More on the 8038  - (none given)
    • REMOB Hunting  - MH (Uniondale, New York)
    • The Global Village  - The NATO Association

  • A ROLM Catastrophe  - ROLM telephone system troubles
  • Happenings  - Various news bits
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • AT&T/BOC Routing Codes  - Routing codes used during Blue Boxing


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 5, Number 2 (Summer 1988)

  • Allnet's Legal Problems  - Allnet lawsuit
  • A Solution To Viruses  - Protection from computer viruses, by Ross M. Greenberg
  • How to Write a Virus  - How to write a computer virus, by The Plague
  • Building a Red Box  - Schematic for a actual working Red Box, by R.J. "Bob" Dobbs  (Vance Morgan)
  • A Reader's Reply To Captain Zap  - Reader replies to Captain Zap's drivel, by Rancid Grapefruit  (Bruce Fancher, DOB: 04-13-1971)
  • Letters
    • Reactions to Zap  - Murdering Thug and The Boy!, The Shadow, Yevgeny Zamyatin
    • Gripes and Feedback  - Natuerlich!
    • A Useful Trick  - (none given)
    • "Deluxe" Call Waiting  - GH
    • New Falwell Numbers  - A True Believer
    • What is Sprint Up To?  - Cray-Z Phreaker

  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Fun Phone Numbers  - List of various interesting phone numbers, by Thunder Seven  (Page 2, Page 3)


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 5, Number 3 (Autumn 1988)

  • Outside Loop Info  - Telephone outside loop distribution plant overview, by Phucked Agent 04
  • Cellular Phones  - Update on cellular phones, by The Glitch
  • Who Was Strowger?  - Info on Almon Strowger, by Almon Strowger Jr. (No, not the real one)
  • Communications Update  - Various news bits
  • A Map of the 516 NPA  - List of exchanges in 516
  • Red Box Program  - Commodore 64 BASIC program for generating Red Box tones, by Tommy  (Art of Hacking, BBS, Website, Victoria, British Columbia)
  • Canadian Numbers  - Canada WATS, by Tommy
  • Letters
    • The Schematic  - The Bug Brother #1
    • The Virus  - Jonathan Porath, Paul van Hattum (Holland), Tommy
    • The Chip  - Rubber Soul (Toronto, Ontario)
    • Another ANI  - The Soldier
    • BLV Tidbits  - The Zeppelin
    • What's The Point?  - (none given)
    • Questions  - J.D.
    • Another Scam  - Doug Porter (Tucson, AZ)
    • Anti-Gay Offensive  - CH

  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 5, Number 4 (Winter 1988-1989)


Volume 6

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 1989)

  • Hackers in Jail  - Editorial  (Kevin Mitnick hacked NORAD!?)
  • The Wonders of UNIX  - More info on hacking UNIX systems - part 2, by Red Knight (Phreakers/Hackers Underground Network)
  • 800 & 900 Exchanges  - 1-800 and 1-900 translation table, by Scott Statton (N1GAK)
  • Letters
    • WarGames Dialer  - Phloyd Scaari
    • More ANI's  - RR, (none given), KH
    • Blue Box Questions  - Santa Claus, Boxed In (Texas)
    • A Scary Tale  - The Disk Jockey

  • How Payphones Really Work  - Detailed info on how payphones work, by The Infidel
  • News From Around
    • Ripoffs & Scams
    • Long-Distance Censorship
    • Foul-ups & Blunders
    • Abuse....
    • Mischief Makers

  • 2600 Marketplace


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 6, Number 2 (Summer 1989)

  • Remember...  - Editorial
  • A Guide to PRIMOS  - User guide to the PRIMOS operating system, by Violence  (Yesmar, Glyph, The Raver [cDc], Necrovore [Bellcore], Violence [The VOID Hackers])
  • 201 Exchange List  - List of NXXs in the 201 NPA (Northern New Jersey), by The Infidel
  • Scanning for Calls  - Monitoring cordless phones, by Mr. Upsetter (Jason Hillyard)
  • Letters
    • The South African Phreak Crisis  - (none given)
    • Payphone Query  - Uncle Ho
    • UNIX Made Easy  - The Micron
    • Did You Know?  - Name Withheld
    • Notes and Info  - S. Fox, Mr. Upsetter, PG
    • Crossbar Trick  - JWC
    • Stories Wanted  - JJ Buck Bloombecker
    • Tuning In Calls  - Cyber Punk
    • Austrian Phreaking  - WM
    • Just Say No  - Phil
    • A Myriad of Questions  - (none given)

  • Tips on Trashing  - How to dig through garbage, by Dr. Williams
  • A Sprint Story  - Story of a Sprint security raid against a code kiddie, by Larry P. (Larry Phreaker)
  • Spanish Phones  - Overview of the phone system in Spain which originally appeared in England's Financial Times, by Peter Bruce  (Page 2)
  • A Summer Worm  - Similar Robert Morris' Internet worm ADA source code, by Jeff Gray
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Reviews  - Reviews of George Zeller's book The 1989 Pirate Radio Directory and the "new" TAP, by Paul Estev and Evil Corley


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 6, Number 3 (Autumn 1989)

  • Competition: It's the Next Best Thing to Being There  - NYNEX Strike editorial
  • Grade "A" Hacking  - University Applications Processing Center (UAPC) information, by The Plague
  • Galactic Hacker Party  - Hacker con in Amsterdam
  • British Telecom's Guilty Conscience  - Letter to British Telecom customers  (Page 2)
  • The Death of COSMOS?  - Some info on Bellcore/Telcordia SWITCH, the COSMOS replacement system
  • What's Going On
    • Technological Marvels
    • Hacker Spies
    • NYNEX Bigotry
    • Dial-It News
    • Payphone Choices
    • Overseas Access
    • News from the U.K.
    • One Less Choice
    • Privacy?  What's That?
    • Hackers In Trouble
    • Hacker Fun
    • Telco Literature
    • Calling Card Tutorials
    • Another Telco Ripoff
    • Technology Marches Back
    • And Finally

  • The Secrets of 4TEL REMOBS  - Info on the Teradyne 4TEL loop testing system used by GTE, by Doom Prophet  (Craig Wilson, Ferrod Sensor, Trouble Verify)
  • Letters
    • Mobile Telephone Info  - Koo Iyo Do
    • Southern ANI  - John
    • ROLM Horrors  - gmw
    • A Nagging Question  - The Apple Worm
    • A Request  - (none given) (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
    • Another Request  - THOR
    • The Call-Waiting Phone Tap  - (none given)
    • Interesting Numbers  - (none given), LK
    • UNIX Hacking  - fin
    • Intelligent Payphones  - Mr. Upsetter
    • Retarded Payphones  - Incarcerated

  • REMOBS  - Information on the infamous Remote Observation Systems, by The Infidel
  • GTE Horrors  - Misc info on GTE and their operations, by Silent Switchman and Mr. Ed Angry
  • Voice Mail Hacking  - Hacking voice mail systems, by Aristotle  (Kevin P. Jones, Louisville, Kentucky)
  • Punching Payphones  - How to "punch" payphones, like in WarGames, for free local calls, by Micro Surgeon / West Coast Phreaks
  • Useful Frequencies  - DTMF and Special Information Tone (SIT) frequencies
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Carrier Access Codes  - 10XXX PIC codes


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 6, Number 4 (Winter 1989)

  • The AT&T Story  - Editorial
  • Our Ever-Changing World
    • Morris Found Guilty
    • Real Damage
    • Jailed For Incompetence?
    • New Technology
    • And Things To Play With
    • Ripoff City
    • Calling London
    • Sprint Is Watching
    • Equal Access For All
    • German Democratic Phones
    • Too Much Chatter

  • NYNEX Central Office Data  - CLLIs and info for NYNEX COs, by The Plague (Special thanks to Kornflake Killer)
  • PRIMOS, Part Two  - User guide to the PRIMOS operating system, by Violence
  • Building a Silver Box  - Build an extended DTMF keypad (A, B, C, D tones), by Mr. Upsetter
  • Letters
    • Help Needed  - Concerned (Syracuse, NY)
    • Interesting Facts  - The Renegade of Pittsburgh
    • More Frequencies  - MM (Rutherford, NJ)
    • Numbers Needed  - MC (Van Nuys, CA)
    • BBS Question  - Greg (New York)
    • Comments/Suggestions  - HC (Phoenix, AZ)
    • COCOT Hacking  - (none given) (Akron, OH)
    • GTE Mysteries  - H. (Manhattan Beach, CA)
    • On Being Traced  - The CPU Raider
    • Information  - KS (Pittsburgh, PA), DS (Rocky Point, NY), AG (San Bernardino, CA)
    • Life's Little Moments  - F.M. "Cordless"
    • Fun Numbers  - The Seeker (Chris Hufnagel, New York, NY)
    • Words of Thanks  - ???
    • How?  - WAFB (Knob Noster, MO)
    • Hacker Clubs  - BK (Syracuse, New York)
    • Another Rip-Off Story  - Dr. Williams (Washington State)

  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Area Code/Exchange Count  - Exchange count for each NPA
  • UAPC Update  - Update on the story of New York kids changing their grades, by The Plague


Volume 7

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1990)

  • For Your Protection  - Editorial
  • Facts About MIZAR  - Info on the MIZAR recent change memory management system, by The "Q"
  • How Blue Boxers Are Caught  - Info on Signal Irregularity (SIGI) reports under a #1A ESS, by Phantom Phreaker and Doom Prophet (Ferrod Sensor)
  • Build a Touch-Tone Decoder  - Schematic for a DTMF decoder, by B/Square and Mr. Upsetter
  • Silver Box Born in U.K.  - Using the extended DTMF tones in the U.K., by Tamlyn Gam
  • Listening In via VHF  - Monitoring marine wireless phone conversations, by Mr. Upsetter
  • News Update
    • Morris Sentenced
    • Albania Callable
    • MCI Insecurity
    • New York Tel Rate Increase
    • Furthermore

  • Letters
    • Clarifying REMOBS  - MOD!
    • Who's Listening?  - WH (New York)
    • Blue Box Chip  - Mr. Upsetter
    • Bug Wanted  - Charlie Brown
    • Questions and Info  - GB
    • Yet Another Threat  - fin
    • Red Box Woes  - Curious, (none given) (Rhode Island)
    • Suggestions and Questions  - Redneck 1 (San Luis Obispo, CA), Satisfied Customer, An Overseas Fan, Somewhere in the Midwest
    • Hotel Phones  - DB (New York, New York)
    • The Facts on 10698  - The County Man
    • More Network 2000 Ripoffs  - The Iron Warrior
    • Sensitive Material  - A Dedicated Subscriber

  • The 911 Document  - Review of the infamous BellSouth Practice 660-225-104SV (E911 document), by Evil Corley
  • Fun at the 2600 Meeting  - New York 2600 meeting apparently under surveillance  (Page 2)
  • DNIC Codes  - Data Network Identification Codes (DNIC) for X.25 packet networks
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • The 707 Area Code  - List of exchanges in 707, by Lurch
  • Review: The Cuckoo's Egg  - Book review of Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg, by Dr. Williams

[emmanuel2]
"Remember, much of $2600 is written by YOU, our readers."
But the profits go into MY wallet!  Suckers!

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 7, Number 2 (Summer 1990)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 7, Number 3 (Autumn 1990)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 7, Number 4 (Winter 1990-1991)

  • A Political Hacking Scandal  - Hacking Democrats
  • The Hacker Reading List  - List of hacker magazines, books, and mailing lists, by Dr. Williams
  • Central Office Operations  - Overview of the inside and outside plant, by Agent Steal (Justin T. Petersen, DOB: 07-28-1960)
  • More Leaked Documents  - Amusing document from a telephone operator's supervisor manual
  • 1-900-STOPPER: Anatomy of a Rip-Off  - Info on the 1-900-STOPPER number  (Similar Article)
  • Letters
    • COCOT Troubles  - KM
    • Future Surveillance  - fin (Minnesota)
    • Why Did You Do It?  - Questmaster (Santa Barbara, CA), Kenton A. Hoover
    • Questions  - Rob (Woodmere, NY)
    • BBS Troubles  - The Spectre (St. Paul, MN), Charlie Tuna (Kokomo, IN)
    • Another Method  - Mr. T.
    • Suggestions  - The Concerned!
    • Technical Suggestions  - AP (Oakland, CA)
    • Caller ID Override  - Pete (Akron, OH)
    • A Phone Company Tour  - Mitch (Cincinnati, OH)
    • Assorted Thoughts  - Keyboard Jockey, The Disco Strangler (South River, NJ)
    • COCOT Info  - (none given, Waterbury, CT), The Martyr and The Mute & Bach Wai

  • Winning Reader Entry  - Letter contest winners on counter the negative negative articles about hackers, by TELEgodzilla & unknown
  • The Word in the Street  - Various news bits
  • 2600 Marketplace


Volume 8

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 1991)

  • In Pursuit of Knowledge: An Atari 520ST Virus  - Atari 520ST virus code for the GEMDOS operating system, by The Paranoid Panda
  • The Terminus of Len Rose  - Story of Len Rose's bust, by Craig Neidorf
  • Soviet BBS List  - Dial-up list for various Soviet BBSes
  • What's Up?
    • Identifying Callers
    • Person Identification
    • Credit Release
    • Credit Due
    • Modern Times
    • Whose Scam Is It?
    • Eternal Vigilance
    • Illegal Networks
    • EFF Lawsuit
    • Prodigy Invading Privacy?

  • Letters  - Reader Feedback Time
    • Some Suggestions  - Mr. Upsetter, TT (Palo Alto, CA), Larry (New York), SM
    • What Could It Be?  - Mad Scientist
    • Info Needed  - JN (New York)
    • Compliments  - Carl Flach (San Leandro, CA)
    • Mysteries  - Flaming Carrot, (none given, New Mexico)
    • Observations  - Danny (Harlem, NY)
    • General Complaints  - Predator
    • Payphone Question  - TG PA
    • Frustration  - TG (Mt. Vernon, NY)
    • AT&T Special Deal  - Noah Clayton
    • Telco Rip-Off  - RG (Los Angeles, CA)
    • Information  - Boxholder (Walnut Creek, CA), The Butler, Jeopardy Jim (Jim Vichench, Stroke Information)
    • Hacking 101  - S.C. (California)
    • A Technical Explanation  - Count Zero
    • COCOT Observations  - George W. (Camden, NJ)
    • A Disagreement  - Vernon J. Grant (Ely, NV)

  • UNIX Password Hacker  - Source code for a crypt() brute-forcer, by The Infidel
  • Looking Up IBM Passwords  - IBM CMS 3.0 password grabber for non-privileged users, by Kevin Mitnick (DOB: 08-06-1963)
  • Internet Outdials  - List of Internet modem out-dials and how to use them, by Kevin
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • The New LEC Order  - Excellent article on modern Bell Operating Company (BOC) recent change and service order systems, by New Hack City

[gold2]
"Never gaze at a man, not even in passing.
A member of Al Qaeda might assume you are gay, and all gays are an abomination before Allah."

Maybe the source of Evil Corley's anger is because he was rejected from joining Al Qaeda?

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 1991)

  • Where Have All the Hackers Gone  - Editorial
  • Magnetic Stripes  - Magnetic stripe card reader schematic from Hack-Tic Issues #8/#9/#10, by Dr. Abuse
  • Death of NYNEX Business Centers  - Info on NYNEX changes, by Anonymous
  • Hacker News  - Info on Len Rose's prison sentencing for sending AT&T source code over a telephone
  • Building a Tone Tracer  - Build a tone generator for inductive probe line tracers, by Mr. Upsetter  (Page 2)
  • Hacking MCIMAX  - Using a MCI product computer to access their MAX database, by MCI Mouse
  • Inspect Implementation  - Security problems in Digital's EASYnet and using INSPECT, by Condor Woodstein  (Page 2, Page 3, Page 4)
  • More on the CLASS Struggle  - BELLCORE internal document on CLASS telephone service features
  • Letters  - The Letters Section
    • UNIX Password Hacker  - rj, DP, NEXUS 6
    • Another 2600 Meeting  - (none given)
    • Access From Korea  - Marooned in the ROK
    • Red Box Notes  - Larry (New York, NY), TH (Ventura, CA)
    • UNIX BBSes  - LT
    • Interfacing With Mainframe  - MAG (Saudi Arabia)
    • Send A Message  - Dark Overlord
    • Caller ID Questions  - MB, BK (Bethesda, MD), KB (Austin, TX)
    • C&P Info Needed  - The Monk (Arlington, VA)
    • More Hackerphobia  - Peter The Great
    • Information Sources  - CH (Los Angeles, CA), H. Rochim, Flatline
    • On "Breaking In"  - Scott Alexander (San Francisco, CA)
    • Very Concerned  - Quantom (Austin, TX)
    • Interesting Numbers  - Number 204 (Las Vegas, NV)
    • COCOT Theories  - Antonin Qwerty (Philadelphia, PA)
    • Valuable Lessons  - T.15 (Quebec, Canada)
    • Hacking Water  - RF (Hiller, PA)
    • Numbers  - American Anarchy (Virginia)
    • Another MCI Rip-Off  - GR (Libertyville, IL)
    • The Value of 2600  - CH (New York)
    • Disturbing Observations  - DB (Flushing, NY)

  • Some New Frequencies  - Info on new analog cellular frequencies, by Bernie S.
  • 411  - News about phone companies
    • Regulating Scams
    • AT&T Wants The World
    • Advances in the U.K.
    • New Services
    • Corporate Litigation
    • COCOT and PBX Features
    • Story of the Year
    • Another Great 900 Number
    • Japanese Numbers
    • Customs of the U.S.A.
    • The Outages
    • Another Outage
    • Caller ID Pushers

  • 2600 Marketplace
  • When Hackers Ride Horses: A Review of Cyberpunk  - Book review of Katie Hafner and John Markoff's Cyberpunk, includes an interesting reply from Kevin Mitnick, by The Devil's Advocate
  • Outdials  - List of PC Pursuit and Datapac modem out-dials on Tymenet, by Net Runner
  • Prisoner Update  - Letter from The Leftist (Frank Darden, Email #2, Email #3, Ft. Lauderdale, FL / Norcross, GA)


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 8, Number 3 (Autumn 1991)

  • Why Won't They Listen?  - Editorial
  • Simplex Locks: An Illusion of Security  - Infamous article on the poor security of Simplex locks - which everyone knew already, by Scott Skinner and Evil Corley
  • The Hacker Video  - Video of Dutch hackers entering a U.S. military computer system, by Evil Corley
  • Protecting Your SSN  - Protecting your Social Security number from con artists, by Chris Hibbert
  • COCOT Numbers  - List of COCOT phone numbers in New England and Washington D.C., by NB & The Dead Cow
  • Letters  - Pages of Letters
    • Where One Hacker Went  - (I used to be) Lex Luthor
    • Technical Questions  - MC (Austin, TX)
    • Raw Data  - The Militant Midget, Arkansas Coin Collector, GS (Seattle, Washington)
    • FAXers Beware  - SC (Hollywood, FL)
    • Prodigy Far From Gifted  - Big Al (Brooklyn, NY)
    • General Questions  - Wilson Longline (New York)
    • Red Box News  - Pete in Akron
    • Suggestions/Questions  - RN (Lake Forest, IL), Midnight Caller, KS (Saskatoon, Canada), GS (Ottawa, Canada), SS
    • Caller ID Decoders  - Bernie S.
    • Hacking UNIX Passwords  - SJ (New Haven, CT)
    • Voice Mail Fun  - Nick (Newcastle, England)

  • Tidbits  - Various news bits
  • USPS Hacking  - Postal bar code hacking, by The Devil's Advocate
  • Psychology in the Hacker World  - Inside the hacker mindset, by Condor Woodstein (Kevin Mitnick?)  (Page 2, Page 3)
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • More Conversion Tricks  - More tips for converting those Radio Shack dialers into Red Boxes, by DC  (Plagiarized from an article by Count Zero)
  • Useful UNIX Programs  - Simple hacker-related C source code, by Marshall Plann


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 8, Number 4 (Winter 1991-1992)

  • Computer Security at the Bureau of Prisons  - SENTRY computer system security statement before the Subcommittee on Government Information, by Richard J. Hankinson (Deputy Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General)
  • Stuff You Should be Interested In
    • Dutch Hacker Raids  - by Fellpe Rodriquez & Rop Gonggrijp
    • More AT&T Confusion
    • Progression
    • Regression

  • Crypt() Source  - C source code to the UNIX crypt() function, by Dust  (Bern, Switzerland)
  • Birth of a Low-Tech Hacker  - Story of an older hacker in India, by The Roving Eye
  • Mobile Frequencies  - List of VHF radiophone frequencies, by Esper
  • Simplex Update and Corrections/ USPS Hacking Corrections  - Error corrections in the last issue
  • POSTNET Programs  - Source code for generating POSTNET bar codes, by Marshall Plann
  • Letters  - The Letter Bag
    • Government Nonsense  - AB (Sacramento, CA)
    • Various Bits of Info  - The Crankster Gangster & Tweaky Bird, MG
    • Hacking School  - MOE
    • Modem Voyage  - CH
    • Questions  - LH (San Diego, CA), John, John, E, RA (Virginia)
    • Abuse of SSN's  - RH (Tacoma, Washington)
    • Private Eye View  - PW
    • Call For Info  - (none given)
    • On Virus Books  - Phat Phreddy Phreak (Dan DiCenso)
    • Long-Distance Trouble  - Danny (New York)
    • Dutch COCOTs  - Jack-o (Hengelo, Holland)
    • Cellular Eavesdropping  - Matt B. (Somerset, MA)
    • COCOT Experimentation  - Kingpin
    • Credit Wanted  - Count Zero
    • POSTNET Corrections  - Black Fox (New York, NY)
    • On Prodigy  - Lawrence (New York), Jon Radel (Reston, VA)
    • Reading ANI  - Pete at AU
    • Red Box Warning  - BillSF
    • Reading Stripes  - Trigger (Santa Ana, CA)
    • Lock Your Terminal  - Cray-Z Phreaker
    • Russian Technology  - KT (Moscow, Russia)

  • Class Features  - Overview of some custom calling features, by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz 75 Clicks from the bridge
  • COCOT Corner  - Examples from a COCOT database, various notes on payments and installation
  • An Appeal For Help  - Help pay Craig Neidorf legal defense fund, by Craig Neidorf  (Page 2)
  • Gulf War Printer Virus  - Info on that stupid "Gulf War Printer Virus" April Fool's hoax, by Anonymous
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • U.S. Phone Companies Face Built-In Privacy Hole  - Security hole in a switches Busy Line Verification (BLV) function
  • Monitoring Devices  - Simple FM wireless transmitter schematics, by BillSF  (Bill Squire, Amsterdam, Holland)
  • Human Database Centers  - Various credit bureaus and database agencies, by PW


Volume 9

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 1992)

  • An MS-DOS Virus  - MS-DOS .COM infecter virus x86 assembly code, by Paranoid Panda
  • A Batch Virus  - Virus using DEBUG and EDLIN from a BATCH file, by Frosty of the GCMS  (Robert E. Jones, Long Beach, MO)
  • Virus Scanners Exposed  - How virus scanners work and ways to bypass them, by Dr. Delam
  • Hacking WWIV  - Different techniques for hacking the WWIV BBS software package
  • Using a Silver Box  - Access ACD debug features using the extended DTMF tones, by Mad Scientist
  • Fun Frequencies  - Secret Service and Disney frequencies
  • UNIX Password Hacker  - An alternate approach to UNIX password cracking which hides your activity, by Keyboard Jockey
  • How to Take Apart a Payphone  - How to take apart a payphone, by The Monk
  • Letters  - The Letters
    • Caller ID Info  - Rich
    • POSTNET Questions  - BB (Woodbridge, VA), LM (Berkeley, CA), Anonymous
    • Info  - MT (Baton Rogue, LA), Taran King (Randy Tishler), Dr. Delam, SGC (New Jersey)
    • Searching for Answers  - The H. (Los Angeles, CA)
    • COCOT Updates  - NB, Juan Valdez (Washington D.C.), TELEgodzilla
    • A Mag Strip Future  - Mr. Upsetter
    • Technological Marvels  - Henry H. Lightcap (Seattle, Washington)
    • Transmitter Bits  - T^2 (Germany), BillSF (Amsterdam, Holland)
    • Clarifications  - Bill, Number 204 (Las Vegas, NV), DC (Loomis, CA)
    • Why They're Watching  - Dispater
    • Breaking Into The Scene  - The Information Junkie
    • Questions  - The Iron Warrior
    • Outraged  - P.O.

  • The Australian Phone System  - Overview of the phone system in Australia, by Midnight Caller
  • A Way to Catch Peepers  - C source code to log finger requests, by Alien X
  • Review: Steve Jackson's Hacker  - Game review of Steve Jackson Games' Hacker: The Computer Crime Card Game
  • Simplex Locations  - List of universities, colleges, schools, etc. which use Simplex locks
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • News Updates
    • Big Brother
    • International News
    • New Technology
    • Troublemakers
    • Opportunists
    • Observations
    • Regulations

  • Fascinating Fone Fun  - Interesting phone numbers, by Frosty of the GCMS


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer 1992)

  • On the Road Again: Portable Hacking  - Guide to portable computers and mobile hacking, by The Masked Avocado
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Phone System: Phreaking in the Nineties  - Modern phone systems and phreaking, by BillSF
  • Demon Dialer Review  - Review of the Hack-Tic demon dialer, by The Devil's Advocate
  • Bellcore's Plans for Caller ID  - Caller ID info from Bellcore TA-NWT-000030
  • Fun Things to Know  - Various news bits
  • Here We Go Again  - More information about the Secret Service and "hacker" arrests, mostly the New York kiddies
  • Letters  - Here They Are
    • Trouble to Come  - Maelstrom 517
    • Enhanced Exaggerations  - Danny (New York)
    • Mag Strip Update  - SE (Minnesota)
    • Scanning Results  - FD (Atlanta, GA), Name Withheld, David
    • At Wit's End  - CB (Colorado)
    • crypt() Correction  - SJ (California)
    • Simplex Sightings  - Albatross
    • Wanted  - Birdman (Tennesse)
    • Monitoring Problems  - Vid Kid (Minnesota)
    • Cellular Frequencies  - 6025 (Scotland)
    • What the NSA Does  - Someone (Somewhere)
    • Prisoner News  - PW (Washington)
    • Mystery Calls  - Sitting Duck
    • The Prodigy Side  - Steve Heln (White Plains, NY)

  • Defeating *69  - Tips to defeat the *69 automatic callback feature, by Bernie S.
  • The View of a Fed  - Story from a government computer security man, by The Fed
  • Review: Devouring Fungus  - Book review of Karla Jenning's book The Devouring Fungus, by W. Ritchie Benedict
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Voice Mail Hacking  - Hacking voice mail boxes, by Night Ranger (G. Batson)


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 9, Number 3 (Autumn 1992)

  • Hacking AmiExpress  - Security holes under this popular Amiga BBS software and a way to grab passwords and display them in ASCII borders, by Swinging Man
  • Defeating Callback Verification  - Neat trick to defeat BBS callback modem verification, by Dr. Delam
  • Shopper's Guide to COCOTs  - Guide to COCOT payphones, by Count Zero (John Lester)
  • Film Review: Sneakers  - Review of the movie Sneakers, by Evil Corley
  • A Simple Virus in C  - Sample source code for a DOS-based overwriting virus that attacks all EXE files in the directories off the main C: directory, by Infiltrator
  • Book Review: The Hacker Crackdown  - Book review of Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown, by The Devil's Advocate
  • Letters  - I/O
    • Blue Box Questions  - MD (Sheboygan, WI), Phrankenstein
    • Assorted Comments  - DC
    • Sheer Frustration  - T^2 (Germany)
    • Mild Encryption  - Danny (New York)
    • Cable Hacking  - Lawrence (New York, NY), Anonymous
    • A Phone Mystery  - The Psychedelic Sloth (Paul Bradley, Oregon)
    • Info  - Erreth Akbe/Energy!
    • Many Questions  - The Ronin (Pennsylvania), Clark Kent (Ames, IA)
    • An Opinion  - TC (Blauvelt, NY)
    • The Facts on ACD  - Kingpin (Brookline, MA)
    • Cellular Mystery  - MM (Nova Scotia, Canada)
    • Call For Data  - The Azure Mage
    • Call For Info  - JS (Philadelphia, PA)
    • Call For Help  - TB (New Jersey)
    • A Choke Tip  - The Prophet
    • Mail Problems  - RD (Austin, TX)
    • Comments From Abroad  - EL (Faulconbridge, Australia), DF (Milan, Italy)
    • BBS Update  - Guy Nohrenberg (Canoga Park, CA)
    • Voice Mail Question  - Puzzled

  • Hacking on the Front Line  - Good article on early 1990s computer hacking, by Al Capone
  • How to Use the Dial Telephone  - New York Telephone document on how to properly dial a phone
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Getting Started  - Getting started in hacking, by Phord Prefect
  • Toll Fraud: What the Big Boys Are Nervous About  - Overview of the Toll Fraud Prevention Committee (TFPC), by Count Zero
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 9, Number 4 (Winter 1992-1993)

  • Hackers in a World of Malls  - Info on the Pentagon City Mall 2600 meeting being busted up by the Secret Service
  • Cipher Fun  - Overview of simple encryption ciphers, by Peter Rabbit
  • Beginner's Guide to Minitel  - Some info on the French Minitel network, by NeurAlien
  • Vehicle Identification Numbers  - Guide to VINs
  • Secret Service Sites  - List of Secret Service field offices, by GCMS MechWariors
  • Letter From Prison  - Letter from a whiny hacker in prison and brute-forcing Spring card codes
  • Growth of a Low-Tech Hacker  - Hacking in a low-technology atmosphere, by The Roving Eye
  • High Tech Happenings
    • The Hacker "Threat"
    • Foulups and Blunders
    • Advances in Technology
    • Abuse of Power
    • Numbers

  • Letters  - feedback
    • Federal Issues  - Albatross
    • Credit Problems  - D (Nederland, TX), BR (Hamilton, Ontario), Pacoid
    • What a Surprise  - JL (Tampa, FL)
    • More Simplex Shenanigans  - Cray-Z Phreaker
    • In Defense of the Demon Dialer  - Hack-Tic
    • Slow Learners  - Dan
    • Data  - Sarlo (Chicago, IL), Tremoto, Happy Reader and Reporter, MA (Baton Rouge, LA), Digital Bear (Canada), Naddy (Germany), Sp00f
    • Scanner Observations  - Anon.
    • Where is TAP?  - IRC (Torrance, CA)
    • Book References  - WT (Santa Barbara, CA)
    • VMS Fun  - Alien Hacker
    • Answering Machine Hacking  - SPaDe (Montebello, CA)
    • A Request  - The Har (Denver, CO)
    • Bellcore Threats  - Valis (West Orange, NJ)
    • Caller ID Hoodwinking  - Gabriel
    • Hardware Lock Info Needed  - The Pizza Maker Hacker
    • Japanese Phone Tricks  - Japanese Subscriber
    • Assorted Info  - Scott (Buena Park, CA)
    • 2600 Meeting Adventures  - Techno Caster
    • Answers  - Scott R. (Huntsville, Alabama)

  • Toll Fraud of the Past  - An official Bell System document on "Blue Boxing" and toll fraud.  (Page 2, Page 3)
  • AT&T Office List  - List of AT&T offices and switching stations covering Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New Hampshire
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • More Telco Leaks  - Southwestern Bell computers and dial-ups
  • Review: Speach Thing  - Review of a Convox add-on voice module, by Cray-Z Phreaker
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 10

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 10, Number 1 (Spring 1993)

  • Cellular Magic  - Detailed cellular phone system overview, by Bootleg  (Mike Beketic)
  • Trouble in the White House  - Story of White House phone system trouble, by Charlie Zee
  • Beige Box Construction  - How to build a Beige Box which is a little more complex than others, by The Phoenix  (Page 2)
  • Descrambling Cable  - Cable scrambling and the infamous Radio Shack descrambler, by Dr. Clayton Phorester
  • Secret Service on Trial  - Court report from the Steve Jackson Games trial, by Paco Xander Nathan
  • One Angry Judge  - One man's Steve Jackson Games trial perspective and how the judge turned against the Secret Service, by Scott Skinner
  • Letters  - Letters of Merit
    • Cordless Questions  - Happy Reader (North Dakota)
    • Bypassing Restrictions  - Major Tom (Ari Braginsky, Champaign, IL)
    • More Simplex Stories  - A Fly on the Wall, Pez (Lafayette, LA)
    • Mysteries  - Annom, DG (U.K.), Maelstrom 517
    • Hacking Passwords  - MR
    • That Bell Computer  - layden02, The Road Warrior
    • Correction  - CA
    • Info  - CL (Holmdel, NJ), JR (Kingsburg, CA), The Tick (Arizona), Avalar, Ken, Misha, Mr. Upsetter
    • Red Box Questions  - Frustrated in Berkeley
    • Data in the Air  - The Winged Plecenta (Oregon)
    • Questions  - JG, TW (Binghamton), MJ (Massachusetts), SB (Massachusetts), Freaked-out Feyodor, AB (New York), JL (Shoreham, New York), Brendog
    • Fixing Your Credit  - DC Credit
    • Surprising Facts  - JM
    • Spanish Connection  - GMV (Motril-Granada, Spain)
    • BBS Info  - JCB (Concord, North Carolina)
    • Evil Payphones  - Inhuman (Arlington, VA)
    • Access to 2600  - The Apple II Evangelist (Jane Lee, Palos Verdes, CA)
    • Rolling Stone Corrections  - TELEgodzilla!
    • Special Phone  - TL (Tempe, AZ)
    • Seeking Virus BBSes  - YFNH (Your Friendly Neighborhood Hacker)

  • Acronyms  - Acronyms list a-g, by Echo
  • A Study of Hackers  - Article about hackers and setting up a honeypot, by Dr. Williams
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Getting Your File  - Getting your FBI or credit report files, by Bayonet
  • Lawsuit Filed Against Secret Service  - Legal action taken on behalf of the Washington D.C. $2600 meeting incident.
  • British News  - Various news information from Britain, by The Dark Knight (John Abercrombie)
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 10, Number 2 (Summer 1993)

  • A Guide to the 5ESS  - Very detailed guide to the Lucent #5 ESS, by Crisp G.R.A.S.P.
  • British Credit Holes  - Potential credit card security holes and ways to bypass the "Data Protection Act"
  • High School Hacking  - School PS/2 computer and Novell system security holes, by The 999
  • DTMF Decoder Review  - Review of the MoTron TDD-8 DTMF decoder, by Les Inconnu (Sydney, Australia)
  • Meeting Advice  - How to have a $2600 meeting and how to protect them from disruption, by Parity Check and Romula Velcro
  • More Acronyms  - Acronyms list h-r, by Echo
  • Letters  - Printable Letters
    • Mall Fallout  - The Knight of Ni (New Jersey), Knight Klone (Atlanta, GA)
    • Beginner Questions  - JC (Canada), Dial Tone (Nevada City, CA)
    • Defeating Hardware Locks  - The Public, Arclight (Fullerton, CA)
    • Telco Fascists  - NA (Sacramento, CA), M
    • Info  - John Wesley Harding (New Jersey), Frion Man (Los Angeles, CA), Static (Washington), Mouse Balls, MW (Ohio), Martian, Clovis
    • Freedom of the Press  - Mike
    • Equal Access?  - userid@temple
    • Help Needed  - Reuben (New York, NY)
    • Cable Potential  - Master Quickly
    • On Beige Boxing  - Andrew Sharaf (Brooklyn, NY)
    • Unlisted Directories  - SDW (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
    • Callback Defeat  - MJ (California)
    • Another Way to Fix Credit  - ES (Hollywood, CA)
    • Another Simplex Story  - The Flea (Lexington, KY)
    • Red Box Tones  - PB (Deerfield, MA)
    • Female Hackers  - A-Gal (Florida)
    • COCOT Question  - DW (Providence, RI)
    • New York's 890 Exchange  - The Sheperd (Brooklyn, NY)
    • The Best ANAC  - Non-Stop Phone Phreak
    • A Special Request  - Matthew (Los Angeles, CA)

  • AT&T's Pages  - Additional addresses to various AT&T offices and switching stations covering New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia
  • Assorted Videos from Commonwealth Films  - Software piracy video reviews, by Evil Corley
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Toll Fraud Device  - Red Box schematic using a Texas Instruments TCM5089 tone encoder IC.  (Page 2)
  • ANSI Bomb  - How to use and install a DOS ANSI bomb, by Mister Galaxy  (Patrick Harvey, Atlanta, GA, BBS Documentary)
  • News Update  - Steve Jackson declared innocent!
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 10, Number 3 (Autumn 1993)

  • Hacking at the End of the Universe  - Editorial
  • The Wheel Cipher  - How to use Jefferson's wheel cipher, by Peter Rabbit
  • True Colors  - Detailed technical overview of the various phone phreak "color" boxes, by BillSF
  • Caller ID Technicalities  - Technical information on Caller ID, by Hyperborean Menace
  • Congress Takes a Holiday  - Evil Corley testifies before Congress
  • UNIX Job Openings  - UNIX hacking/Trojan horse tips, by Orb  (Norman Richards)  (Page 2)
  • Meeting Mania  - More November 1992 Washington D.C. $2600 meeting info and Secret Service FOIA documents
  • Never Erase the Past  - Review of LoD's Hack/Phreak BBS Message Base Project, by Evil Corley
  • Hacking Honesty Tests  - How honest and integrity test work, by U.R. Source
  • Letters  - Never Before Printed Letters
    • Foreign Charge Phones  - Clovis
    • Hacker Info  - Crewcut
    • Reading List  - The Theoretician (Dana Beal)
    • Telco Ripoffs  - Sp00f!
    • Seen the Light  - A New Reader in Las Vegas
    • Hacking An Intercom  - The H. (Los Angeles, CA)
    • AT&T Irony  - PB at UT
    • Locked Out  - AH (Texas)
    • New Long-Distance Services  - Bill Bossiere, Telemanagement Systems of America (New Orleans, LA)
    • Evil Engineers  - Almost Anonymous
    • Los Angeles Numbers  - Red Wizard, (none given, Santa Ana, CA)
    • Governmental Mystery  - Baked Alaska
    • Numbers  - Boredom Prevails (Richmond)
    • Cellular Mystery  - ED (San Francisco, CA)
    • Disney Details  - IT (San Diego, CA)
    • Are We Neglecting IBM?  - KR (Little Rock, Arkansas)
    • Lack of Understanding  - Captain Poison (Puerto Rico), Tech
    • Review Update  - Les Inconnu (Sydney, Australia)
    • High School Hacking  - The Noid (Jason Chilton), Soylent Green, Haghard
    • Telco UNIX Trap  - A Maryland Hacker
    • Bookstore Trouble  - trader, J
    • Rumor Quelling  - Sue
    • Problem Solving  - LL, Saladin
    • Cellular Criticism  - Mark Uber

  • Password Cracking Software  - Review of Access Data Recovery NTPASS Password Cracking Software, by Hakim
  • Changing Your Grades on a High School Computer  - Hacking a school using Pupil Attendance and Records System (PARS), by Drewl/Salivate (A. Shafer)
  • Overview of DSS1  - Review of ISDN Digital Subscriber Signaling System 1, by Cruise-CTRL
  • Book Review: Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals  - Book review of Paul Mungo's Approaching Zero, by Stephen J. Resz
  • Protecting Your Virus from Evil Detectors  - Short piece of assembly code to add to your viral code to "encrypt" the virus until run time, by Dr. Bloodmoney
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • More Cellular Fun  - Info on cell cloning, by Judas Gerard
  • The Last of the Acronym List  - Acronyms list s-x (no y or z), by Echo
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 10, Number 4 (Winter 1993-1994)

  • Hackers in Jail, Part Two  - Editorial
  • Cellular Phone Biopsy  - Detailed cellular phone memory operations, by Kingpin (Joe Grand)
  • Elementary Switching  - Basics of phone switching and signaling systems, by 910
  • Know Your Switch  - Tricks to listen for to determine the type of telco switch (ESS, DMS) you are on or calling, by Rebel
  • Hacking Smartphone  - Info on the RBOC's Smartphone, by Tech Rat
  • High School Mac Hack  - Hacking Appleshare and using ResEdit at schools, by The Bard
  • Hacking Computer Shows  - Get into computer shows for free, by Walter S. Jaffee  (Page 2)
  • NYNEX Voice Mail  - Voice mail phone numbers for various NYNEX central offices
  • The Magical Tone Box  - Overview of using an ISD1000A digital voice recorder IC to create a Red Box or Blue Box, by FyberLyte
  • Letters  - Letters to Remember
    • Fun Telco Numbers  - Beetle Bailey (Arcadia, CA), MacGyver (Clearwater, FL), Uncle Waldo
    • Hacking Traffic Lights  - Lone Wolf (Atlanta, GA)
    • Past Hacker Prime?  - Darkhold Page (Pittsburgh, PA)
    • Info and Questions  - Whistler, Will Chung (San Luis Obispo, CA), Pipo Communications (Pollack Pines, CA)
    • Potential Discovery  - Maldoror (Florida)
    • Security Concerns  - Radiation X (California), Bleed The Freak
    • Starting a Meeting  - Johnny "The Quarter" Burpo (New York)
    • Questions  - M (Great Neck, New York), DY (Weston Ontario), Owen (Halifax, U.K.)
    • Why Hack Cable?  - A-$tring (Lenexa, Kansas)
    • How to Learn About Your CO  - Hook (Belmont, MA)
    • Observations  - The Lung (California)
    • New Technology  - Julian (Cleveland, OH)
    • Modem Back Door  - Antoch
    • Foreign Payphone Flash  - LN
    • How to Really Abuse a Payphone  - Peter (Manchaca, TX)
    • Technology Moves Backwards  - Martin
    • Corrections  - Jeff, King of Birds (Chapel Hill, CA)
    • Red Box Concerns  - Anoon, Nexus, Concerned
    • How Easy It Is  - CopKiller (Bethesda, MD), Erreth Akbe
    • Bypassing Restrictions  - Lost and regulated in NB, Canada
    • A Way Around Caller ID?  - Levendis (Deron Staffen)
    • School Phone System  - lexis
    • 2600 Wins Over Class  - BG (Georgetown, TX)
    • The Honesty Test  - The Vampire Gabrielle

  • Passageways to the Internet  - College Internet dial-ups
  • More Meeting Advice  - $2600 meeting advice and how to fight back if the government tries to prevent you from attending one, by The Judicator of D.C.
  • Book Review: Virtual Reality  - Review of Howard Rheingold's Virtual Reality, by W. Ritchie Benedict
  • Digital Locks  - List of the 1287 possible combinations for Digital-brand locks
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • News Roundup
    • Foulups and Blunders
    • Touch-Tone Registration
    • Electronic Mayhem
    • The Latest From The U.K.
    • Collect Your Wits
    • Fantasy World
    • Start The Insanity!
    • Insuring Profits
    • New Numbers
    • Journalistic Integrity
    • The Joy of New Technology
    • Caller ID News
    • Corporate Ideas
    • Tidbits

  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 11

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 1994)

  • Price: $4.00
  • Distribution: 13,000
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Harassing old ladies is hacking, or it isn't... I can't figure it out.
  • Cover
  • Staff
  • Payphones  Argentina has two phone companies: Telefonica in the south and Telecom in the north.  Buenos Aires is divided between the two.  Both companies use the same tokens but their cards aren't compatible.  See if you can guess which phones belong to which companies.  See if you can guess which one we're not sure about.  Photos by Edward Stoever.
  • Payphones  Argentina - 2
  • Payphones  Argentina - 3
  • Payphones  Argentina - 4
  • Payphones  Argentina - 5
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 11, Number 2 (Summer 1994)

  • Hackers on Planet Earth  - Editorial about the first HOPE conference
  • Life Under GTD5  - Detailed info on a GTD5 under GTE, also has info on the Proctor Test Set, by Zaphraud (Jason Kennerly)  (Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6)
  • The Joys of Voice Mail  - Info on hacking voice mail systems and password guessing, by snes
  • Foiling the Finger Command / Playing With Your Fingers  - Overview of some of potentially sensitive information Finger can reveal and how to "back finger" a person, by Packet Rat (Tim Russo) and Shidoshi
  • Cordless Fun  - How to listen to 49 MHz analog cordless phones, by Noam Chomski (New York Metropolitan Phreak Hack Organization [NYMPHO])  (Similar Article)
  • Admins Without a Clue  - Collection of quotes from various system admins, by Kevin Crow
  • Hacking Prodigy  - How to change your Prodigy ID, by DeVillage Fool
  • Hacking the Small Stuff  - Info on hacking ATMs, calculators, vending machines, by Leonardo Branson
  • Letters  - Letters to Read By
    • A Busy Connection  - Reuben (New York, NY)
    • Touch-Tone Tall Tales  - Power Spike
    • Improving Grades  - Brian, Black Night (Ohio)
    • Regression  - Fred
    • Car Tracking  - Tommy B.
    • How to be Honest  - V.A. Szell (Seattle, Washington)
    • High School Notes  - VicProphit, Number 6 (Bellevue, Washington), Deus/The Black Night/Silver Dragon/Pixel Threat/Zippy the WaterGod/The Unnamed One
    • Fighting Traffic  - flip (Ohio)
    • Become Your Own Admin  - Toaster (Narragansett, Rhode Island), Primitive Morales (Processed World)
    • Passing Numbers  - Ethan (Stanford), DD (Somerset, MA), Diashi (New York)
    • Red Box Rumors  - The Borg (Cleveland, OH)
    • Those Three Tones  - Empress
    • Cellular Mystery  - JV (Reston, VA)
    • Thoughts On Congress  - Gregg Giles (Oregon), John
    • Defending the 64  - Commodore Hacker
    • Tyranny in Church  - The Roadkill
    • Availability  - Hermit the Herman (David Johnson), sciri
    • Secrecy  - Somewhere in Kansas
    • Seen the Light  - An isolated feeling guy in Portland, Oregon
    • IBM Hacking  - Powercell (Hartford, CT)
    • Long Arm of the Secret Service  - Juan Valdez (Cambridge, MA)
    • Call Forwarding Tricks  - CM (Attlehoro, MA), LN (Minneapolis, MN)
    • Prodigy Savings  - George
    • Hungry For Knowledge  - Emory T. Suchau
    • Fighting the Slime  - RG (Los Angeles, CA)
    • Secrets of a Super Hacker  - JB (Habay-La-Nevue, Belgium)
    • Thoughts  - PB (Wayland, MA)

  • DTMF Decoder  - DTMF decoder hardware/software for a Commie 64 or Vic 20, by Paul Bergsman  (Merion Station, PA, N3PSO)
  • Monitoring Keystrokes  - Story of recording keystrokes using DEPL under DOS, by Dr. Delam
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Facts  - News bits
  • Detecting Corporate Leaks  - How businesses detect leaks and restrict data, by Parity Check
  • 2600 Meetings
  • Price: $4.00
  • Issue's Cash Cow: HOPE
  • Cover
  • Staff
  • Payphones  A set of German phone booths.  Note the incredible size of the handicapped booth.  Photo by Frion Man.
  • Payphones  Aruba.  Another card-only payphone.  Photo by YETI.
  • Payphones  Ecuador.  This phone on the Galapagos Islands is the reddest we've ever seen.  A true red box.  Photo by BLUBXR.
  • Payphones  Mexico.  Public card reader payphone in Tijuana.  Photo by Daniel Hank.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 11, Number 3 (Autumn 1994)

  • Opening Doors  - Editorial
  • Monitoring U.S. Mail  - USPS barcode information, by Paranoia
  • Irish Telephones  - The Irish telephone system Telecom Eireann, by Wonko the Inane
  • The Ghost Board  - Hidden bulletin board systems, by Autolycus
  • Hacking Netcash  - Hacking online money, by Palindrome
  • Welcome to MEL  - Southwestern Bell Mechanized Employee Locator (MEL), by EighT BaLL
  • Generating an ESN  - How ESNs are generated, by Maldoror
  • The Ten Dollar Red Box  - Instructions for turning a "talking" Hallmark card into a working Red Box, by Toxic Avenger  (Jeff Burchell)
  • How to Listen In  - Very detailed overview of common audio surveillance hardware and techniques, by Q (Alan Hoffman)
  • Letters  - Vocals
    • Worrisome Questions  - Susan
    • Defeating Call Return  - Emperor (San Francisco, CA)
    • Info  - Quinton McHale (Seneca, IL), WW (Austin, TX), Norm D'Plume
    • More Questions  - (none given)
    • Privacy Violation  - Anonymous
    • Meetings  - Frank (Kansas City, MO)
    • Reader Reunion  - Mike (Chicago, IL)
    • A Strange Number  - John Q Public, Zappy (Atlanta, GA), Mr. Asshole (San Francisco, CA)
    • Inside Info  - King of Spam
    • Strange Situation  - Marcus
    • Replies to Readers  - Da Phigzter (PHiGAN/6o2), .gKo. (DTMF: AB67)
    • Cordless Clarification  - Gladshiem
    • Mac Hacks  - Xausii, Space Rogue (617) (Christopher Thompson, Lowell, MA)
    • Sick ATMs  - (none given, London)
    • Lowdown on Lojack  - CARTWHEEL
    • Still More Questions  - Clear Plastic Raincoat from Seattle
    • On Piracy  - SM (Morgan Hills, CA)
    • On Honesty  - A.R. Weeks (New York, NY)
    • Northern Hacking  - DrP (Medicine Hat, Alberta)
    • Satellite Mystery  - Alcatraz (Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ)
    • Red Light Cameras  - An Unprintable Symbol (California)
    • Security Concerns  - lexis
    • Security Lapses  - Colostomy Bagboy (Paskell "Geno" Paris, Washington)
    • Contradictions  - Problem Child (Las Vegas, NV)
    • Hacker Sites?  - Roger Harrison (Long Island, NY)
    • Help Needed  - Lady Penelope (London, England)

  • Living on the Front Line  - Compromised Internet hosts  (Page 2)
  • News Items
  • Breaking Windows  - Bypass Windows screen savers, by The Camelback Juggler
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Internet World Guide  - List of the 2-letter Internet domains into countries
  • Software Review  - The Supervisor Series for VMS, by Floyd Lloyd
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 11, Number 4 (Winter 1994-1995)

  • Inspiration  - Editorial
  • Bypassing Protec  - How to defeat the Protec hard drive protection program, includes a Turbo Pascal boot sector copying program, by Michael Wilson
  • More Key Capturing  - Tips on capturing keystrokes and passwords for various operating systems, by Code-Cafe
  • Digital Telephony Passes  - Info and sensationalism on the Digital Telephony Bill
  • The Risks of War Dialing  - Legal problems you might run into war dialing, by Dr. Delam  (Page 2)
  • Cellular Hardware & Electronics  - Detailed information on cellular phone PROMs/EPROMs and the data they hold, by Kingpin
  • Australian Update  - Info on Australia's phone and cellular system, by Les Inconnu
  • Letters  - Right Letters
    • Missing The Point  - Deeply Shrouded & Quiet
    • Handy Tip  - DMG (Cherry Hill, NJ)
    • Problem  - Harlequin
    • HOPE Memories  - Dave (Hofstra)
    • Scantron Tricks  - Jonathan
    • Schematic Problems  - The Camelback Juggler
    • Fun With Sound  - AK47/[GZ] (Arkansas)
    • A Little History  - Fart Wino
    • Ottawa Fun Phone Facts  - The Bishop (Ottawa, Canada)
    • Wanted  - Geert (Rochester, New York), Spartacus
    • Info  - FP (Long Island, New York), Atticus, BW, Paul (New Jersey), Morning Wood
    • Mystery Number  - Bruce
    • Questions  - Anonymous
    • MetroCard Update  - Red Balaclava (Jeopardy Jim)
    • Highway Strangeness  - Son of Holocaust Survivor Redhead
    • More Hacker Persecution  - Mr. Hallmark (Rochester, New York), Majic (Maryland)
    • 800-433-3210 Update  - Presto
    • Payphone Tribulation  - Weasel
    • More Window Tricks  - Brother Orbis
    • More Mac Tricks  - Mr. Blackhood
    • Followup  - John Q Public
    • True Hacker Spirit  - JL (Highland, CA)
    • More On Honesty  - U.R. Source
    • Help Needed  - Dr. X
    • Hacker Graffiti  - JV (New York)
    • Take Responsibility  - Brad Peebles (North Palm Beach, FL)
    • Phone Boxes  - Cat in the Hat (Warner Robins, GA)
    • Inexcusable  - Particle Man (Arlington, VA)
    • International Tale of Woe  - Fabian (Long Island, NY)
    • Cable Affirmation  - James S. Allen (Office of Cable Theft)

  • VT Hacking  - DEC VT100/200/220-series computer (dumb) terminal information and login spoofer/password grabber, by Mr. Bungle
  • Janitor Privileges  - Security problems hiring outside janitors, by Voyager (Will Spencer)
  • Net Surfing Techniques  - Internet surfing tools and tricks, by Sonic Life
  • News Update
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Reviews: Network Security, Information Warfare, and Unauthorized Access  - Review of Steven Shaffer's book Network Security, and Winn Schwartau's book Information Warfare, and the video Unauthorized Access by Annaliza Savage
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 12

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1995)

  • The World vs. Kevin Mitnick  - Editorial
  • The Gold Card  - Holland PTT-Telecom prepaid phone cards and how to make your own reader/writer, by Hack-Tic
  • Facts on ATM Camera Security  - Overview of ATM surveillance cameras and debunking some of the myths, by Kitsune
  • Cellular Interception Techniques  - Different methods for the interception of analog cellular phones, by Thomas Icom
  • Letters  - The Better Letters
    • More Bookstore Fun  - Seventh Son
    • Piracy Proposal  - Daveed Shachar (Israel)
    • Eastern Europe Scene  - The MacMan (Carl B. Constantine, Budapest)
    • Locked Up  - ATM Bandit, Phafnir, The Cryptic Prognosticator
    • Bits of Info  - Zeek (Major) (Colorado), Skimmer (Cambridge, MA)
    • Digital Correction  - Spook
    • Intercept Tones  - Scott (Buena Park, CA)
    • Monitoring Mail  - Drew
    • Red Box Problem  - Pestilence
    • ATM Fun  - Kilobyter (Flushing, New York)
    • True Hackers  - Edison Carter (M.D. Spangler)
    • Mystery Computer  - William Tell
    • Source of Income  - CMS (Santa Rosa, CA)
    • Strange Numbers  - Jason (Boise, ID)
    • New Technology  - Bitslicer
    • Conscientious Trashers  - "Hackers for a Cleaner Planet"
    • Satellite Theory  - Daughter of a Satellite Engineer
    • A Fun Project  - Quasinym (Peter Garver?)
    • Mystery Number  - Tony Sharp
    • TV Garbage  - Puppet Master
    • Hacking Airphones  - Empress (Georgia) (Similar Info)
    • Mac Attack  - Rev. Mr. DNA
    • Computer Numbers  - The Phantasm (Jim Brinkerhoff)
    • Fun With Cordless Phones  - Radio Man, Tom

  • Hacking in Brazil  - State of computer hacking in Brazil and notes about the local BBS scene, by Derneval (Ribeiro Rodrigues)
  • Hacking Tandy/Casio Pocket Computer  - Using the Tandy PC-6, by Sam Nitzberg  (Eatontown, NJ)
  • Hacking the Tandy Zoomer/Casio Z-7000 ZPDA  - Using the Tandy ZPDA, by Enigma
  • 500 Exchange Guide  - List of NXXs in 1-500 land
  • Pager Major  - Shoulder-surfing a pager terminal password, by Danny Burstein
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • West Side Hacker: Masters of Deception  - Book review of Joshua Quittner & Michelle Slatalla's Masters of Deception, by Scott Skinner
  • Assorted News
  • Leaking Cables  - British cable company problems and leaks
  • 2600 Meetings
  • Price: $4.00
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Kevin Mitnick
  • Cover
  • Staff
  • Payphones  Hong Kong.  A Cardphone and a Creditphone.  The Creditphone takes credit cards, the Cardphone takes phone cards.  They both take coins as well.  Photos by Michael Pusateri.
  • Payphones  Hong Kong Creditphone.
  • Payphones  Costa Rica.  In the frontier town of Puerto Jimenez, Peninsula de Osa.  Photo by Martin Raminer.
  • Payphones  Finland.  Reminiscent of coin phones throughout Scandinavia.  Card phones in Scandinavia are usually orange, coin phones are blue/silver.  Photo by Flippy the Squid.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 12, Number 2 (Summer 1995)

  • The Bernie S. Saga  - Editorial
  • New Anti-Viral Technologies  - How to protect your virus from anti-virus software, by Adam Young
  • The Gender Snooper  - Cool little project involving a wireless serial port data transmitter to intercept low-speed RS-232 data going to things like modems, by Commander Crash
  • ATM Tricks  - Diebold ATM tricks, by Helen Gone
  • Citibank ATM Fun  - Playing with the ATMs at Citibank, by Ice of Spides
  • Day of the Hacker  - How a Wildcat BBS was hacked with a trick PKUNZIP.BAT and infected COMMAND.COM, by Mr. Galaxy
  • Diverters  - How call diverters (forwarding) work, by Ray Nonte
  • Hacking the AS/400  - How the AS/400 works, by Mantis King
  • Letters  - "Letters are the cornerstone of any civilized society."
    • Privacy Concern  - Anonymous in MD
    • Hacker Techniques  - Pumpkin Smasher (Natchitoches, LA), Mickey and Mallory, Wicker Man (DeKalb, IL), Streaker
    • War Dialing  - Clint Sare (Texas), Lineman
    • Numbers  - TAG (Sheridan, Oregon), Mike, Major Zeek
    • Data  - Airwolf (Twin Cities, Minnesota)
    • Questions  - GF
    • Pirate Alert  - Red 5! and Hellbender
    • Answers  - Name and Address withheld, Gump (Sacramento, CA)
    • Bookstore Stories  - The Black Carpet (Bay Area, CA), Pestilence/517
    • Caller ID Question  - Chester-Buzz
    • Lack of Security  - Another Thought Criminal
    • NYNEX Outrage  - Scammed in NY
    • Advice  - Fortunate Sun, Lincoln
    • On ATM's  - Kamakize (Virginia)
    • Spin Control  - The Black Panther
    • Handy Tip  - BillSF

  • Radio Reviews  - Review of some frequency counter and scanner gear, including the Optoelectronics' Scout, R10A, APS104, Universal M-400 decoder, and AOR AR8000 receiver, by Blue Whale
  • War Dialing  - Interesting wardialing stories from a small town in Canada and an autodialer script for Qmodem, by VOM  (Canada)
  • Coping with Cable Denial 2  - Jerrold 450 cable converter hack, by Prowler
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • News Items  - Mitnick trial starts
  • NPA List  - List of area codes (1995), including all the weird ones
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 12, Number 3 (Autumn 1995)

  • No More Secrets  - Editorial
  • Stealth Trojans  - Source code for a stealth DOS Trojan horse and "stealth" disk I/O access, by Commander Crash
  • Military Madness  - The true story of my experiences as a paid hacker for the military
  • T-Shirt Follies  - Washington D.C. $2600 meeting problems and harassment wearing a $2600 T-shirts, by The Roach
  • Macintosh Key Capturing  - Source code for a Mac keystroke recorder, by Swarthy
  • Just Say No  - Build a "NO-Box" which is like an improved "gold box" (switchable second line), by Hudson
  • COCOT Experimenter's Resource Guide  - Very detailed guide to various technical details about COCOT phones, by Dastar Corn
  • Letters  - Language is a Virus From Outer Space
    • Harassment  - African Herbsman (Lexington, Kentucky), Roger Blake, Little Alex (Michigan), sam (Berkeley), Fast Lover (Houston, TX)
    • Information  - Ether, Dali Lamer, Curious and Anonymous (Los Angeles, CA), pbixby, Matthew Kassin, FkPigMan (Pittsburgh, PA)
    • Telco Brains  - Neo Zeed of 201, TTJ
    • Article Feedback  - (none given), Rokket Man, LACR01X, Bloodshot (Mt. Vernon, NY)
    • Numbers and Addresses  - McPhrie, Veg
    • Censorship  - Disgusted
    • Discovery  - Katfish
    • Wanted  - Nameless
    • Mac Infiltration  - Maud'Dib (Silicon Pirates)
    • On Diverters  - MASTER JSW, Anakin
    • ATM Fun  - The Final Chasm, ATM Dude
    • Advice  - Law Hack (Los Angeles, CA)
    • Causing Confusion  - tfg
    • Fear of Subscribing  - John Doe
    • Yet More Bookstore Fun  - John Lowe (Memphis, TN), Ford
    • German Payphones  - THX-1138 (Raleigh, NC)
    • HOPE Repercussions  - Mr. Pink (San Marcus, CA)

  • Mutation Engine Demystified  - Understanding virus mutation code, by Tio Mate Jones
  • ISDN Overview  - Technical overview of ISDN services, by Roger Harrison
  • DTMF Decoder Review  - Review of a MoTron TM-16A+ DTMF decoder, by Blue Whale
  • Hacking a Police Interrogation  - Tips on surviving a police interrogation, by Darlo Okasi  (Page 2)
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Breaking Windows 2  - Defeating Windows screen saver passwords, by Bisect Skull Gas
  • Movie Reviews: The Net and Hackers  - Movie reviews of The Net and Hackers, by Evil Corley and Thee Joker (Jason)  (Hackers Transcript)
  • 2600 Meetings
  • Price: $4.00
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Bernie S.
  • Cover
  • Staff
  • Payphones  Japan.  This phone resides in Yokohama and is referred to as a "green phone".  They use phone cards in 1000, 5000, or 10,000 yen denominations.  Photo by Bill Bond.
  • Payphones  A typical French cardphone, found in Paris.  Photo by Anonymous.
  • Payphones  This payphone was found in northern Norway (64.5 degrees north) and takes only coins.  Photo by John Lewandowski
  • Payphones  An Israeli cardphone that is a big improvement over the old token system.  Photo by Unka Nisi.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 12, Number 4 (Winter 1995-1996)

  • Speech Control  - Editorial
  • What Happens on the AT&T Side  - AT&T long-distance operator info, by Crash 24601
  • AOL Censored Wordlist  - AOL internal memo for rules on the use of certain words.
  • News Updates
  • A Spoofing Odyssey  - How jsz, Shade, Len Rose?, and others on #hack used Robert T. Morris' IP spoofing vulnerability to attack Shimomura's system for Kevin Mitnick, by Gregory Gilliss
  • Infiltrating Disney  - Very inaccurate Disney World secrets, by Dr. Delam
  • Sniffing Ethernet  - Overview of DOS utilities for monitoring Ethernet traffic, by Veg
  • Bypassing DOS/Windows Security  - How to bypass the security on DOS/Windows machines, by Case
  • Understanding VeriFone Machines  - VeriFone machine info, by Dr. No
  • Pakistani Phones  - Info on the Pakistani phone system, by The Shepherd
  • Letters  - Thoughts of the Reader
    • Fraid Not  - madh, Avi Drissman (Farmington Hills, MI)
    • Questions  - Psycho, Proteus (Babylon, NY)
    • Clarification  - Lucas, Fastchrlie
    • The Master Plan  - The Silicon Phoenix/810
    • Words of Thanks  - Lady Penelope (London, England), Checkerboard Phox (Kevin Phillips, Memphis, TN), SLUMBRBAK of the forest, Joel (Orange County, CA)
    • Mac Trix  - The Invincible in MD, Equant (Tucson, AZ)
    • Privacy Regained  - DayEight, Jerry
    • Of ANACs and ANIs  - Kevin (Memphis, TN), Percival
    • Viral Stuff  - Problematic 29
    • Brazilian Hackers  - kazi (Brazil)
    • The Truth About Mitnick  - Daniel
    • On Bernie S.  - King B, Data Recall
    • Possible Warning  - J.R.
    • AOL Hell  - Mark
    • Destruction and Theft  - TD, LIG (Life is Good)
    • Hacker Perceptions  - se7en (Christian Valor, San Francisco, CA)
    • Answers  - Bell Buddah
    • Speech Confinement  - angchay twenty-fidy
    • Bookstore Stories  - Harmony, MRB (Boca Raton, FL)
    • Standing Up  - Feyd, Tunnel Vision
    • Pet Peeves  - Stickman, Hacked, Cracked, and Phracked
    • Shocking News  - GoatBoy
    • Back Pack Hack  - The Cat's Meow
    • Problem Stealing Money  - Riddler
    • Contacts Wanted  - Joey Jay Weinman (Texarkana, TX)
    • Info  - David Smith (Las Vegas, NV), CMS (Santa Rosa, CA)
    • Opening Doors  - The Laughing Cow

  • .COM File Infecter  - Source code to a .COM file infecter, by Impending Dhoom
  • Understanding the Hacker  - Editorial, by Bootleg
  • Scanning Space  - Military satellite, NASA, and Air Force radio frequencies, by The Majik Man
  • AOL Syndrome  - Using AOL's FTP space to host files via HTTP, by Kris
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Hacking NetWare  - Hacking Novell NetWare, by Trap
  • Cashing in on Mitnick: The Fugitive Game  - Oh, the irony!!!  Book reviews of Jonathan Littman's The Fugitive Game and Tsutomu Shimomura's Takedown, by Scott Skinner
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 13

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 1996)

  • Caught in the Web  - Editorial
  • Tap Alert  - Simple phone tap detector, by No Comment and Crash Test Idiot  (Text)
  • A Page of Revenge  - Pager demon dialer ideas for Quick Basic, by Big Lou
  • Unshredding the Evidence  - How to unshred paper evidence, by Datum Fluvius
  • Confessions of a Beige Boxer  - Funny story, by RedBoxChiliPepper (Brad Carter, MySpace)
  • Macs at Ease  - Bypassing AtEase on school Macintosh computers, by Loogie
  • Sharp Cash Trix  - Sharp ER-3100 cash register information and how to open the cash drawer, by Dennis Fiery (Knightmare)
  • Hacking Doors  - Apartment telephone security system holes and intercepting their DTMF codes, by Clark W. Griswald
  • Hacking Caller ID Boxes  - Extend the memory on caller ID boxes, by Dave Mathews (Dallas, TX)
  • The Alaskan Phone System  - Info on the phone system in Alaska with a hacker point-of-view, by Ice
  • Avoiding Suspicion  - How to avoid looking and acting suspicious, by -Me
  • Letters  - Where the Letters Are
    • Opening More Doors  - RB (San Francisco, CA)
    • Eastern Europeans  - Hrvoje Vukovic (Croatia)
    • ANAC Change  - woodrat
    • Points on Interrogation  - The Prophet, System Default, Robin Scurr (White Lake, MI)
    • Bernie S. Fallout  - Name Withheld, Mike W., TcP (Denver, CO), Mario (Canada), Adam Schoenfeld
    • Military Miscellany  - Cockroach, Disappointed in our Government
    • Spanish ANI  - The Mad Tapper (Ringwood, IL)
    • Cellular Prisoner  - Jeremy G. Cushing (Alphabits, Arrest Info)
    • Highway Weirdness  - Jus Jizzen (Phoenix, AZ), King Otar
    • Meeting Questions  - Joshua, Skywarp (London, U.K.), Frank M.
    • Info  - anonymous, PhreakHolio (Colorado Springs, CO), The Mighty Pantharen (N. Vancouver, Canada)
    • Corrections  - b00da (Philadelphia, PA)
    • Reality?  - Meth
    • Radio Shack Fun  - Biohazard
    • Unfriendly Payphones  - Michael H.
    • Questions  - NeVeR \FluX/, M
    • The Winter Cover  - Christian (Germany), Dereks, fuLcrum (Miami, FL)
    • Fun On Planes  - Particle Man (203)
    • Repression and Hackers  - Brian Martin (Australia)
    • AOL Hell  - YUKYUK
    • Credentials on Credentials  - Gebby
    • Crippled 911  - Ben Stock
    • Disney Critique  - Michele Warner, The Imagineer
    • An Edward A. Smith Theory  - some guy
    • Cincinnati Bell Nightmare  - Mr iNSaNiTY
    • Understanding the Hacker  - Sevangels
    • 56K ISDN Link  - ThePawn (New Jersey)
    • Netware Nonsense  - Gandolf
    • Words of Praise  - The Cyber Hitchhiker
    • Words of Shame  - E.W.L., Dr. No

  • Motorola Cellular Guide  - Motorola cellular phone information, by Mike Larsen
  • 2600 Marketplace  - CAP'N CRUNCH WHISTLES. Brand new, only a few left
  • Hackers '95 Review  - Review of Phon-E and R.F. Burns' film Hackers '95, by Blue Whale
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 13, Number 2 (Summer 1996)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 13, Number 3 (Autumn 1996)

  • Fallout  - Editorial
  • Searches and Arrests  - Your rights during a search or arrest, by Keyser Soze  (Page 2)
  • Hacking the SCC OS  - Hacking tips for the SCC business management software (not the telco system), by D-Day
  • Security Through the Mouse  - Bypass keystoke recording with this clever program which allows mouse clicks in your password, by Steve Rives  (Email)
  • Brazilian Phone System  - Overview of the landline and cellular phone systems in Brazil, by Derneval
  • The Dial Pulser  - Turbo BASIC code for a 2600 Hz single-frequency pulser (a.k.a. Captain Crunch whistle), by Golem of Sprague
  • GI CFT2200 Power Box  - Overview of the General Instrument CFT2200 cable box, by Active Matrix
  • GTE Voice Prompts  - Codes to generate each of the voice recordings, by Chillin' Bit Boy
  • HP LX200  - Hacking with the HP LX200 portable computer, by PsychoWeasel
  • Maximum WOW!  - Compuserve nation-wide PPP Internet service information, by Kris
  • Hack Your High School  - Tips for hacking your school's computer, by DayEight  (Ryan Stevens)
  • Federal BBSes  - Government BBSes, by Anonymous
  • Hacking the SR1000 PBX  - Hacking the Cortelco SR1000 PBX system, by maldoror
  • Building the Cheese Box  - Build a phone line diverter box using a Parallax BASIC Stamp, by Thomas Icom
  • Letters  - Going Totally Postal
    • The Cincinnati Nightmare  - Craig A. Finseth, Judicator of DC, Mickle, Feanor (Fargo), Benjamin (New Jersey)
    • 2600 Groups  - Michael J. C. G., The Rippa
    • Airplanes  - Bishop (Maple Ridge, British Columbia))
    • That Question Again  - Jimp
    • Phone Shutdown  - PyroLite (Barry Bowling)
    • Corrections  - Cannibal
    • Boat News  - Phillip Phlop
    • Mac Hiding  - Josh M. McKee (Corvallis, Oregon)
    • Submission  - SN0WBLiND
    • Numbers  - foX mulder, Shadowdancer, cybersurfer, Ruthless Dictator, rolando rojas
    • Mystery Computer  - cookiesnatcher
    • Novell Hacking  - Dusty
    • Security Concern  - Ginchy
    • Canceling AOL  - Eribake
    • NSA Tracking  - Montauk
    • The Red Box Issue  - Cesar, Rev. Doktor S-bo (Steve Johnston), mthed
    • Malfunction  - Vader187
    • Off The Hook  - Mr. B.
    • Free Communication  - MA
    • Words of Thanks  - C.S Spankford (Seattle, Washington), DFW
    • Applying Knowledge  - Dr. Bob (Dr. Bob Testen, Germantown, MD)
    • Coin Collection  - Anonymous
    • Trouble  - alien13
    • On The Inside  - Cpt. Kirk
    • Retail Madness  - Jamez Bond
    • Update  - MRGALAXY
    • Suspicion  - Redial
    • Videotext  - MLiq
    • Chip Implants  - OddBall
    • Hacker Defense  - Charr
    • Battling *69  - Ty Osborn
    • Cash Registers  - Spydir Man (Phoenix, AZ)
    • Disney Facts  - Line Noise (Orlando, FL)
    • Crazy Phone  - PoT-UsA
    • Paranoia  - Ben (Wichita, KS)

  • Spoofing Cellular Service  - Overview of cellular ESN cloning, by Baxlyder
  • Reprogramming Data  - NAM programming info for various Autovox cellular phones, by JS
  • The Weird World of AOL  - Various AOL Terms of Service violations
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • PHF Exploit  - Using the infamous Apache PHF web server exploit, by fencer
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 13, Number 4 (Winter 1996-1997)

  • Knowledge is Strength  - Editorial
  • Toward More Secrets  - Info on today's cryptography, by Seraf  (Dominick LaTrappe)
  • Backcountry Phones  - Info on rural phone systems, Optaphones, by Equant  (Nathan Hendler, Tucson, AZ)
  • Chipcards Explained  - Detailed information on chipcards, by BillSF  (Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6)
  • Biggest Mac Mistakes  - Securing Mac computer networks, by The Guy Who Was In Craig Neidorf's Spanish Class And Had No Idea
  • Craft Access Terminal  - Info on outside plant Craft Access Terminals and the Craft Access System, by Local Loop
  • Cracking askSam  - How to bypass askSam database password protection, by Datum Fluvius  (Missing Table)
  • Snooping via MS-Mail  - Snoop on email using MS-Mail, by Schlork
  • Letters  - Your Letter Could Be Here
    • The Ruling Class  - Socrates, Josh (Abilene, TX), Hype (Mississippi)
    • Folklore  - Wussfish
    • Finding People  - Asmodeus (McKinney, TX)
    • Info Needed  - Jorge (Uruguay), Geert (Holland), DoubleZeroOne (Texas), Yosemite Sam
    • Encryption  - Data Stream, Azazel, Anonymous, WinSocker
    • Questions  - thedespised, Merlin (Anchorage, AK)
    • Holes  - charr (Atlanta, GA)
    • On Cluelessness  - Zyklon B
    • Observations  - Dr. Delam, xphreak, Desaparecido (San Francisco, CA), NG (New Jersey), Ammon, Rosey (Canada), president@whorehouse.gov, CF (Alameda, CA)
    • New Stuff  - xorsystm (Eric), TheFetish To Heresy
    • Numbers  - sisifis (Illinois), Captain Video, Michael (Germany)
    • Corporate Hacking  - Jack Stuart
    • A Word of SYN  - meem, George
    • Oops  - Gordon
    • More FlightLink Facts  - +universal cytixn+
    • Bernie S. Thoughts  - Kevin
    • Our Hypocrisy  - Sean Emerson (Goleta, CA)
    • Upgrade  - MRGALAXY
    • A Freer Juno  - phunhertz
    • Cable Notes  - Platypus Man
    • Gambling Hack  - Guz
    • PHF Exploit  - Astraea
    • Monopolistic Motion  - (orbital) (Nashville, TN)
    • A Fun Federal Story  - love 357
    • Disturbing News  - Rich D.
    • Porn Sting Update  - BD (Denver, CO)
    • NYNEX Neighbor Problems  - Guard of the Gate (Massachusetts)

  • Subscriber Network Interfaces  - Info on telephone network interfaces, by Frequency Man (FreqMan)
  • Unfriendly Numbers  - List of 800-numbers that charge, by Secret Squirrel (Michael Jacobus)
  • How to Steal Things  - How to steal stuff, by Ted Perver  (J.J. Styles [a.k.a. 0ptiKal ilusioN, a.k.a. Zot the Avenger])
  • Social Engineering via Video  - Use video tools and techniques to social engineer information, by Bernz  (David Noah Bernick, Email #2)
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • Defeating the W95 Screen Saver  - How to extract a Windows 95 screen saver password, by rdpzza
  • Book Review: Anarchy Online  - Review of Charles Platt's book Anarchy Online, by Scott Skinner
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 14

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 1997)

  • Enough is Enough  - Editorial
  • Hacking LED Signs  - How to hack those scrolling LED signs, by Bernie S.
  • Use Your Skills to Escape Boot Camp  - How to get out of boot camp, by InVerse
  • Poor Man's Access  - Provides remote shell access on UNIX servers, by GT
  • Consequences of .GOV/.MIL Hacking  - What happens when you hack .gov/.mil sites, by Chocolate Phoetus
  • More PHF Fun  - Script to search for the Apache PHF exploit, by ChezeHead
  • Credit Card Numbers via Calculators  - How to generate credit card numbers on a TI-82 calculator, by DETHMaster (Jesse Curry)
  • Paper Evidence  - How to properly destroy paper evidence, by F. Leader
  • Cellular Programming Data  - More CT-352/3, CP-170, Technophone 901, CT-100/101/200/201, EZ400 NAM programming notes, by Threc (Dustin Darcy)
  • Downsizing Insurance  - How to avoid being fired and collecting "payback" data, by Hans Gegen
  • Letters  - Letters That Don't Suck
    • Dealing With Parents  - edoban, FEENIX aka The Ebola Virus, fordyman, Ace Lightning
    • Subscribing vs. Newsstands  - jetman
    • A Real Clever Trick  - ameba
    • Tale of Woe  - Jeff
    • Number Fun  - CIA, Darkman, Saiine, CrACKeD (Tucson, AZ), BStone, JN, Rokket Man
    • Technological Marvels  - Phreakner
    • Big Brother  - Wes "Holodoc" Mills
    • Frequencies  - Desaparecido (Bryan Robert Cowan, Sacramento, CA, DOB: 11-27-1974)
    • School Terror  - Socrates
    • Exciting Updates  - sw, Josh M. McKee
    • Bernie S. Feedback  - CYBERJE, POEE Chaplin (J. Weiss), Armitage Shanks, MBG
    • Video Boxing  - =NSNiPER=, NeoCzar, Pyrojax (ShwaG)
    • Exorcising AOL  - Sevangels
    • Newbies  - ZeBoK, OpieX
    • PHF Findings  - Zeed
    • Web Reaction  - KH, Anonymous
    • Submitting Stuff  - (i), Jack T. Dragon
    • 2600 Name Dispute  - Mr. Kiddie Pr0n
    • 2600 Sells Out  - Brain Child
    • Cable/Web Thoughts  - Eli the Bearded
    • Praise  - sgtpepper
    • More on Disney  - Moonpanther, GB (Georgia)
    • Cellular Spoofing  - WinterMute
    • Implants  - /dev/null
    • More on the Mystery Computer  - Viral Messiah (Mike, Jamestown, KY)
    • Credit Fraud  - scrap
    • Bookstore News  - Phun and Gamez (Emporia, KS), /dev/thug
    • On Stealing Things  - Artifice, charr (Atlanta, GA), Dorsey Morrow, Jr.
    • Mischief in the Subway  - Madeagle
    • Psychic Rip-Off  - DT
    • Radio Show Online  - Zaph32 (Dallas, TX)
    • One For Kevin  - Venshea, MD
    • Inspiration  - SodaPhish (Corey J. Steele)
    • Phone Weirdness  - grim, Procell
    • 2600 Meeting Mishaps  - Cesaro (Toronto, Canada), Crumb (Buffalo, NY)
    • Military Hacker  - Mainframe
    • Punctuation Problems  - Niel Ians
    • Mac Hiding  - Total Idiot
    • The Other Side  - (unreadable signature on a fax)
    • Evil Ex Strikes Hacker  - MANOWAR (Orangeville, Ontario, Canada)
    • Serious Concerns  - Shadodin

  • How to Hack Tech Support  - How to talk on the phone, by Dennis Fiery (Knightmare)
  • Letter from Prison  - Letter from Agent Steal
  • The Other Kevin Book  - Book review of Jonathan Littman's The Watchman, by Noam Chomski
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • How to Legally Use a Red Box  - Use the audio tone output of a Red Box to control things, by Kingpin
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 14, Number 2 (Summer 1997)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 14, Number 3 (Autumn 1997)

  • Sobering Facts  - Editorial
  • Busted! A Complete Guide to Getting Caught  - What to do if you are busted by the feds, by Agent Steal (Contributions and editing by Minor Threat [Chris Lamprecht])
  • Hacking FedEx  - Overview of FedEx computer systems and security (The Beast = SecurID), by PhranSyS Drak3 (Brian Taylor)
  • Defeating *67 With Omnipoint  - Defeat caller ID blocking using the Omnipoint GSM network, by TtJ
  • How to be a Real Dick on IRC  - Hacking and taking over IRC channels, by semiobeing
  • Brute Forcing the World  - Ideas for brute-force password hacking, by ChezeHead
  • Hacking the Vote  - Potential voting holes and loopholes, by A-Napa Candidate
  • The E-ZPass System  - Overview of the E-ZPass toll pass system, by Big Brother
  • Letters  - We Printed Your Letter!
    • True Hacking  - banaker
    • Fun At Barnes & Noble  - Black Jaguar, anonymous, Barnes & Noble Financial Center (Westbury, New York)
    • Righteous Hacking  - Bomber Chick, Katfish
    • Replies  - Imran Ahmed a.k.a. Eric Blair, kingpin, Deranged
    • A Challenge  - Clive
    • Questions  - StLSD2000, Phracture, scott, CP
    • The End?  - Ripped Off by NYNEX
    • Critic's Corner  - sTs, Orion, TC (Fort Leavenworth, KS)
    • Mitnick Fallout  - Phip-C, DM & NightShadow, fiNrod (Montgomery, AL)
    • Circuitry  - Crampet
    • Suggestions  - Steven, sb
    • Problems  - [Name Obliterated], MaRTiAs, sryob
    • Improvements  - Mutter
    • Numbers  - Ydeologi (Marshall Votta), DJinOK, A., Spillage (Orange, CT), Mwaaah, Jonny Deth
    • Uh Oh  - josmo
    • Fixing Juno  - BuPhoo, cap.n_crack
    • Offended  - Absinthia Vibrato
    • Notes From The Military  - Jungle Bob
    • For The Record  - The *REAL* NeoCzar
    • Meeting Problems  - CW Extreme, Flipliquid, Checkmate
    • Beyond Hope Aftermath  - mattj, D.
    • IRC Woe  - havok
    • USA Still #1  - elw00d
    • Gee Whiz  - Adam768L and Da Violator
    • Singapore Connection  - Joe a.k.a. DaemonX
    • Free Video Games  - PaulT
    • Clarification  - Ether Bunny, TheEtch
    • PCS Mystery  - Matt D.

  • 2600 Marketplace
  • News Summary
  • Secrets of Walmart  - Overview of a Walmart phone systems and the different extensions, by Pirho  (Gregory Jones, New York, New York, MySpace)
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 14, Number 4 (Winter 1997-1998)


Volume 15

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 15, Number 1 (Spring 1998)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 15, Number 2 (Summer 1998)

  • Lies  - Editorial
  • Where Long-Distance Charges Come From  - Detailed tabulation of where long-distance phone charges come from, by The Prophet (Babu Mengelepouti)
  • Facts About Cable Modems  - Technical info on cable ISPs and modems, by jeremy
  • What is ICA?  - Overview of the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture thin-client protocol, by Democritus "Father of Materialism"
  • A Newbie Guide to NT4.0  - Beginner guide to Windows NT 4.0, by Konceptor
  • Build a Modem Diverter  - Divert an incoming modem line to another line, by digital/Digital
  • The Tyranny of Project LUCID  - Info on Advanced Technologies' LUCID "international justice" computer system, by Tom Modern
  • Hacking Lasertag  - Hacking the LaserStorm games, by johnk
  • Fun With Java  - Playing around with JavaScript, by Ray Dios Haque
  • Millennium Payphones  - Overview of Nortel Millennium payphones, by Phluck
  • How to Hack Your ISP  - Overview of some basic UNIX security and exploits, by Krellis
  • Gameguru Hacking  - How to hack the demo copy of Game Guru, by Axon
  • Letters
    • Questions  - Payphone, reid, Anonymous in Minnesota, Callme Ishmael, kris, Bendzick, PbH, Asher
    • Newsstand Update  - Javelin, John Doe
    • Meetings  - twisted circuits, Flash, Dr. Doolittle
    • Disturbing News  - Ruiner (New Times BBS), M Davis a.k.a. SemiSpy
    • Online Idiots  - Dave, The Informant
    • Software Concerns  - Schrooner, Greyhare
    • Random Info  - Luke, Allin, SilverStream, FIXatioN, Mark Iannucci, Soul Implosion, phiberphit, Desaparecido, Flinx, skwp, Citrus, Mastery
    • More Fun In Stores  - Corvi42 (Trisan Nixon, Toronto, Ontario), Carole
    • 2600 Problems  - Kevin Brown, Eric B. AKA Flyable George, SYCO, Dave Kiddell, Catt, Disappointed
    • Comments  - Dr. Psycho, JJ
    • Pleasantries?  - DramaDame, Briareos
    • Mitnick  - klineline, *69, ed
    • Head Hacking Advice  - Malico, kevin g
    • Clarification  - Atrifix (Matt Atrifix), K. Ruff
    • Bookstore Monopolies  - R.J. Eleven
    • Credit Due  - Nothingg
    • Phone Exchange History  - Stealth Ricochete
    • A Suggestion  - F.E.D.-D.E.F.
    • The Generation Gap  - curtis in cali
    • More on FYROM  - MJ Mastermind (Athens, Greece)
    • A Nagging Question  - Trend_Killa

  • Fingerprinting at the Precinct  - Story of being fingerprinted at the NYPD 44th Precinct and the computer system they used, by The IMC
  • Inter-Tel Phone Systems  - Hacking Inter-Tel phone systems, by Sundance Bean
  • Security Through "Secure"  - Program to watch process IDs vi ps aux to determine if they exceeding a set limit, by kasper
  • Tips on Generating Fake ID  - Info on getting or making fake IDs, by DrNick (Ben Polen)
  • More on DSN  - Overview of the Defense Switched Network, by Dr. Seuss of the OCPP
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 15, Number 3 (Autumn 1998)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 15, Number 4 (Winter 1998-1999)

  • The Victor Spoiled  - Editorial, plus Mitnick case update
  • A Touch Memory Primer  - Detailed overview of Dallas iButton Touch Memory devices, by Kingpin
  • The Facts of SSN  - Social Security number info and prefix guide, by Kermit the Hog
  • A Guide to VMS'pionage  - Hacking OpenVMS, by EZ Freeze
  • Samba: Lion King or Software Suite?  - Overview and security of Samba shares and the SMB protocol, by VmasterX (Ron Belcher)
  • Copper Pair Color Coding  - 25-pair color code, by Catatonic Dismay
  • A Security Hole at S-CWIS  - Computer security holes in Student Campus Wide Information Service, by Phineas Phreak  (Bryan Finger)
  • Pocket Connectivity for Frugal Hackers  - Hacking with the Sharp Zaurus 3500X, by Mr. Curious
  • Fun With NetWare 5  - Hacking Novell NetWare 5, by Khyron (Claude Johnson)
  • Become a Radio Ninja  - Radio hacking and how to get your ham license, by Javaman  (Adam J. O'Donnell, PhD Dissertation)
  • Cable Modem Security  - MAC address security with cable modems , by Fencer (Dr. Faubert)
  • How to Handle the Media  - How to properly deal with talking to the media about hacking subjects, by nex
  • 800-555 Carriers  - 1-800-555-XXXX modem carrier scan, by MSD
  • Letters  - NON SPAM
    • More on "Free" Software  - (none given)
    • Data  - Pigano, nobody, Mark Milgrom, Nighthawk, KC, Shahn
    • Questions  - Rav0n, analyzer, smokescreen, Matt, Keebler, the medik, NAME, KLoWN, RANT-o-MATIC, RANT-o-MATIC, vsr600, Envision (Anaheim, CA), TydiLFuX (Wisconsin)
    • Radio Shack Antics  - Jestah (Orlando, FL)
    • Fun on the Phone  - NERO, Knotfil, Innominate (Buffalo, NY)
    • Religious Advice  - Patrick, Deryc, Riddler
    • Scary Stuff  - jagxr
    • Injustices  - wrath, Toxygenn, hex
    • Olympic Fun  - Informagnet
    • Miscellaneous Mitnick  - denileofservice, Anthony T. aka SYCO, TetterkeT (Jonathan M. Wilcox), exhalibut, Shawn Morris, Timba Wulf, Eppie, snachbot, Little Bobby, Telephreak, Pago, Jade, DaRkSiDe (Richmond, Indiana), Desaparecido, Baaaa (Waltham, MA)
    • Fingerprinting  - The Fryar
    • Barnes & Noble Feedback  - J.A. Hasse, Bendar the Barbarian, cloak, Rachael (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
    • Between The Lines  - Pete
    • Help Needed  - morbus, Col Pete
    • Hotmail Fun  - Feng Laser
    • Non-Subscriber  - Sandy
    • 2600 To The Rescue  - jeff
    • In Defense of Microsoft  - Count Zero Int
    • Clarifications  - Spoon, StuntPope, Dustin Decker, Rave669, Archive, D-Recz, Cslide, Frank (Seattle, Washington), Shaggy Dan, Frogman
    • An Offer  - st
    • Military Madness  - Dippy (Virginia), Virtual Vandal (Detroit, MI)
    • Thoughts and Reflections  - BurningWorld (New York), fl00dland, WG (Friday Harbor, Washington)

  • Why Anonymous Phone Cards Aren't  - Laws that can reveal phone card info and FBI testimony
  • The Cryptography of Today  - Modern computer encryption, by kriminal 3nigma
  • Hacking the Atcom Cyberbooth  - Hacking airport kiosks, by Fever
  • Le Firewall  - How firewalls work and Checkpoint Firewall-1 3.0b information, by Black Ice
  • Phreaking in the Midwest  - Phreaking story and information for Midwest states, specifically Illinois, by deth6 of the Bullz On Parade
  • How to Hide From Netscape  - Clearing your Netscape web browser cache and history, by J.P. (John Pierce "J.P." Cummins)
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 16

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 1999)

[littleboys]


                TAKEDOWN:

                       Number of crimes documented : 2
                        Number of meals documented : 42

                   $2600:

                          Number of good articles : 2
                           Number of TinyPedoAds® : 42

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 16, Number 2 (Summer 1999)

  • A Culmination of Efforts  - Editorial
  • Securing Your Linux Box  - Steps to help secure your new Linux installation, by miff
  • More on SIPRNet  - Overview of the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) used by the U.S. military, by Happy Harry
  • Hacking AS/400  - Discusses the IBM AS/400 mainframe including pre-set user IDs, default password policy and some useful commands, by radiat
  • Fun at Costco  - Hacking Costco's AS/400, by nux
  • Brute-Forcer for Tracer  - Brute-forcer for Tracer unit control hardware found at most big stores, by J-lite
  • Broad Band via the Earth  - Broadband radio/data transmissions using the Earth as a conductor, by saint (David)
  • Secrets of Copy Protection  - How various hardware and software copy protection schemes work, by root access (Data War)
  • How Parents Spy on Their Children  - Computer usage spy programs and One Tough Computer Cop software, by Demonologist
  • The Future of IPV6  - How IPv6 works in comparison to IPv4, by rift
  • Letters  - Chatter
    • Offerings  - flatline, Douglas
    • Revelations  - ZeROLogiKz (Michigan), ronwarren, Justin, Rufus T. Firefly, charr (Atlanta, GA)
    • Responses  - Ethan LaPan, Fencer
    • Fun Numbers  - maxm0use (Owosso, MI), Remy, PhuzzBoi, Mike
    • Secrets  - ethan (army.mil)
    • Gripes  - ICE breaker, RGBKnight, K2, shinobi, Matt Lesko
    • Tales of Injustice  - marbike, Outbreak
    • Retail Tips  - Fredrick 860, Sylex
    • Cries for Help  - TOPACE12
    • Flush Out Religion  - Joe Sixpack
    • Mischief  - Anonymous, the ninth name is NOD
    • Clarification  - baalse, Lucky225, NoDiCe, Elite
    • Supplemental Info  - Corey, ts, Corban, Scoop, rain.forest.puppy, MMX, Justin (Memphis, TN), Anonymous, Charon, F00bar98, matt, techs, The WildCard & |SC|
    • Military Mentality  - aeglemann, USN Sailor & ModG, Surreal
    • Education  - Made in DNA
    • Miscellaneous Mitnick  - RomeoW, Static-Pulse, Payphone, Chris, David, Ed in CT, toneboy1700, EchoMirage
    • Mysteries  - shine, niceroova)
    • Foreboding  - SLATAN, Mars
    • Feedback  - pArtYaNimaL, olsonjv, tk, brm, Grey Ghost, oolong, First_Incision, mgs21, Phred, xdissent, r0uter
    • Advice  - LeeTKuRp of HoC, Karen, CorLan
    • Pure Stupidity  - pretzelboy
    • Reassurance  - (none given)
    • General Weirdness  - ICON
    • Chutzpah  - Robin S (White Lake, MI)

  • How to Keep Parents From Spying  - Tips minors can use to prevent parents from monitoring their activities, by JediMaster666 (Phillip Benoit)
  • Food for Your Brain  - Finding personal info about people using info available from things like IRC, by DJ Tazz
  • Adventures With Neighborhood Gates  - How security gates in gated communities work, by jaundice
  • Internal Hacking  - Story of a person hacking an internal computer system to try and get a raise, by Zenstick
  • Batch vs. Interactive  - Overview of the different types of computer processing systems, by StankDawg  (David Blake)
  • Manipulating the Aspect  - Hacking the Aspect ACD call center system, by HyTeK
  • Pushbutton Lock Hacking  - Info on Benton T2 model DL2700 and DL2750 push-button locks, by Clawz
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 16, Number 3 (Autumn 1999)

  • Slow Motion  - Editorial
  • Upload Bombing  - Web server attack exploiting CGI holes by pretending to be a web browser uploading a file, by Ulf of VSU
  • Killing a File  - How to thoroughly remove a file from a computer, by THX1138
  • The Terrorist of Orange, Texas  - Story from Texas about a high school student labeled a potential "terrorist," by The Abstruse One (Jason Byrons)
  • ITS Prison Phones  - Info about the Inmate Telephone System, by ElecRage (John Schang)
  • Infiltrating MediaOne  - Cracking MediaOne Express - the password is "password," by Lobo The Duck
  • PalmPilot's Canadian Red Box  - PalmPilot program for generating Red Box tones used in Canadian payphones, by CYB0RG/ASM
  • Forging Ping Packets  - C source code to forge ICMP echo requests under *BSD, by /bin/laden
  • Trunking Communications Monitoring: Part 2  - More info on monitoring trunked radio systems, by TELEgodzilla
  • Internet Radio Stations  - Running a Internet "radio" station, by -theJestre- (Chris Marland)
  • Quantum Hacking  - Info on quantum computer hacking and the OpenQubit project, by skwp  (Yan Pritzker)
  • Protel COCOTs  - Info on hacking Protel COCOT payphones with the dial-up feature, by HeadTrip
  • Assorted Disney Fun / More Disney Fun  - Disney crap, by Hacks and Madjestr
  • Letters  - Enunciations
    • Clarifications  - Barcode, RS, still nobody, Falcon, twiztid, joe cool, John Belushi, rj, Meth_od, Sunshine
    • Venom  - None of your Damn Business., alex
    • Guilt By Association  - icon, napalm, artiedeco
    • Retail Hacking  - KeMo BoY, caesar gaius caligula, Drifter, Yerba AKA Willy L., xprotocol
    • Phone Trickery  - payphone, Jonathan Fredericksen, Iineside, SSTcobra (Atlanta, GA), Loggia, Rolan
    • Dissatisfaction  - Dementia, Entropic (Dallas, TX), M0leBrain, cookiesnatcher
    • Free Kevin  - crypto, Lord Maestro, Brother Inferior, Fire Drake, Skyppey the Hyppey (Canada), Joe Blow
    • Foreign Phones  - Psychedelia, MD_Yugo_NSM
    • Conspiracies  - name withheld because I can't think of a good one, FeuErWanD, namib1234, ghostriter, john doe
    • Discoveries  - Weber, EKo, admintemplate_, finn, Calis, BBrain (Boston, MA), timm
    • Hunting For 2600  - Phreakilation, SAR, GB
    • Y2K  - RB, R.B.
    • Game Playing  - Mike (Seattle, Washington), AllOut99, mad cow disease
    • Corporate Expansion  - james hall
    • Hiding Things  - SCUDS
    • Info Wanted  - caffeine, tnsecure, Bazz
    • Stealing  - SpeedDRaven (Carl J. "Byron" Speed)
    • Ad Policy  - Eric W.
    • Secrets  - Seraf

  • An Overview of Cellemetry  - Wireless telemetry technology designed to monitor, control, and track anything that is worth being monitored, controlled, and tracked, by Jinx (Johnny)
  • Solaris x86 for Plants  - Overview of installing Solaris 7 on an Intel x86-base system, by Javaman  (Adam J. O'Donnell)
  • Eleetisms  - How to talk like an idiot, by Hex (Jarrod Eyamie)
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 16, Number 4 (Winter 1999-2000)


Volume 17

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring 2000)

  • The Next Chapter  - Editorial  (css-auth.tar.gz)
  • A Taste of Freedom  - Post-prison letter from Kevin Mitnick, by Kevin Mitnick  (Picture 1, Picture 2)
  • How to Stay a Sysadmin  - Tips for computer system admins to prevent burnout, by Shade (Paul A. Watson, Resume)
  • Military Computer Secrets  - Military computer (Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management Information Systems [NALCOMIS]) tidbits, by Suicidal
  • Securing Web Sites With ASP  - ASP code to secure a web page, by guinsu
  • Still More on SIPRNet  - More info on SIPRNet and some of the hardware used, by Phrostbyte  (Kevin Wahl)
  • Finding and Exploiting Bugs  - Searching software and code for potential bugs and security holes, by Astroman66 (Andrew Lance)
  • All About SecurID  - Overview of RSA's SecurID, by magus  (Steven Beverly)
  • SecurID  - Info on the SecurID protocol and real-world usage, by xenox
  • Your Internet Birthday  - Privacy reasons for giving out a "fake" birthday when filling out forms on the Internet, by The Cheshire Catalyst
  • Make Spammers Work For You  - Spamming spammers - "human ping of death," by Chatreaux
  • Taking Advantage of All Advantage  - Exploiting the All Advantage system which pays you to surf the Internet, by silicon kill
  • AT&T's Gaping Hole  - Free phone service with AT&T wireless service, by Jinx
  • Cellular Networks Detailed  - Detailed info on various cellular protocols, by EchoMirage
  • Letters  - We're Listening
    • Alien Intelligence  - CgK
    • Bookstores  - Downsouth, Anonymous Barnes and Noble Music Seller, quash
    • Adventures in School  - Xkaliber, P2129 - the student formerly known as Kevin, phil, gopher the contradictory, Microkiller
    • Discoveries  - darky0da, casey, Handle6015, Mongo, brain, robert, Dr. K, carls_pub
    • Kevin Free  - Koishii, KuNg, Chris from Chrisconsin, ASZ, Rave669, VinceC, r00t_Canal
    • More on SecurID  - Kingpin
    • More Fun in Retail  - Anguirus, The Wedge, cashmolia, MustardMan, Phelix, cashmolia, Jack A. VanWoerkom, squatex
    • Anti-Venom  - The Devil
    • Additional Details  - netsplit, Cilo, Platinum Dragon
    • Defeating Corporate Advertising  - orn, Alpha
    • Help Needed  - xequalsl, Dan Wheeler, Lubdub
    • State of the Hacker World  - Pestilent, Mind Plague of The Committee, JL, phiber_life, Quantum Knight
    • Positive Developments  - ph0x
    • Idiocy  - wNdozCRASH, tacit
    • Humor  - Rick
    • Forbidden Exchanges  - .244
    • The MPAA Lawsuit  - Michael F. Nudell, Punker04, Anonymous (London), Apocalyse, Wayne, Pay_No_Attention_To_That_Man_Behind_The_Curtain!
    • Y2K Issues  - Desaparecido, AssMonkey, Gustaf, CubanPete
    • Facts on NT  - RickDogg
    • Irony  - Knightsabre
    • Free Stuff  - Twist
    • Question  - scorchmonkE
    • 2/6/00  - MeSSerSchMiTT (David or The "RUSSIAN" as I get called in USA school), Rhymezor
    • DoS Cluebags  - Keith Gardner, Andrew, Cooter, Jason (Louisiana)

  • How PSX Copy Protection Works  - How PlayStation copy protection works, by Lord Xarph  (Tod Weitzel, San Jose, California)
  • Fun at Circuit City  - Harass old ladies at Circuit City, by ccsucks
  • How to Build a Coffee Box  - Combine a Beige Box and Brown Box, by skrooyoo
  • The Sprint PCS Network  - Tech info on the Sprint PCS cellular network, by ~sn0crash
  • How to Get Banned From Your ISP  - How to be stupid, by Mandark
  • Build, Don't Buy, Your Next Computer  - How to build a computer a quality computer system, by bober
  • How Does That DSS Card Really Work?  - Brief overview and technical details of the operation of DirecTV DSS cards, by Phredog
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 17, Number 2 (Summer 2000)

  • Madness  - Editorial
  • The Art of System Profiling  - Identifying operating systems and networks on the Internet, by Thuull  (Page 2)
  • A Brief Intro to Biometrics  - Overview of on biometric-based physical security systems, by Cxi~
  • Fun With TDOC  - Information on the Tennessee Department of Corrections computer network and the Tennessee Offender Management Information System (TOMIS) system, by Anonymous
  • Strange Abuses For Your Home Phone  - Info on a Conair HAC SW8260 phone, by Static (Brandon Malzahn)
  • More Advantages of All Advantage  - More info on All Advantage and how to disable ads, by KireC
  • Over the Verizon?  - List of Internet domains registered by Verizon
  • Securing ASP: A Deeper Cut  - How to secure ASP-based websites, by AgentK (Kent Tegels)
  • Jello Biafra: Hacker Ambassador  - Clueless, rich, hypocritical, media whore - sounds just like Evil Corley, by princessopensource  (Shana Skaletsky)
  • Hacking the Three Holed Payphone  - Old payphone hacks and information, by Munzenfernsprechermann
  • Packet Analysis and Header Sniffers  - General overview of packet sniffing for header identification and a low-level Internet protocol overview, by Javaman  (Adam J. O'Donnell)
  • Letters  - Dangerous Thought Section
    • Clarification  - Kevin V (Trenton, OH), Treker, Einstein, Mark, Transmissions from the South
    • Getting Around Stupidity  - Dr Jest, Karr0t T0p (Kristoffer William Marshall, DOB: 05-13-1984), phil, sonnik, GhettoBlaster (Jason Louisiana)
    • Discoveries  - Squee, Allin, Elektr0chr0nik, bill
    • Car Talk  - Devil Moon, The Artful Dodger
    • Annoyances  - thegeek (Glasgow, Scotland), Funk Strings, 2MnYiDiZ, ryan
    • Retail Tips  - SnoFlak, gasfumes, Cybah
    • Additional Info  - Immolation, mbve, Qwertydvorak, DAR
    • Dealing With The MPAA  - Scott, Sys Edit, mr. blonde, Mr. Roboto, Jedi's Chaos, Daewoo, g00fy, steven az (heretidpogo)
    • The Mitnick Case  - Sienne (805), Technomatrix, Speedk0re (Gary Kuhlman, Irvine, CA)
    • Fun With Cable Companies  - RootX11, jjjack, Rizzn Do'Urden (Mark Hopkins)
    • Info Needed  - Popeye
    • School Update  - Izubachi, Eric S., Code_WarriorX, cs0074life, Blooder, ICMP
    • Criticisms  - Patrick, cryptofreq, The_36th_Chamber, dustbert
    • Helping New People  - Notmyrealhandle
    • Ideas  - MrBid
    • Injustices  - Anthrax, SHemp5150 (Shaun Kemp), KoDo, diss0nance
    • Starting a New Meeting  - NuLL vaLue, neurophilter
    • Praise  - Dave (New York, New York), Da Clyde, 3_trinity_3 (Shawn McCullough, San Antonio, TX)
    • ANAC Number  - Goop, PaleronD
    • Media Misrepresentation  - phil
    • The Staples Threat  - Cielo, Maverick212
    • Y2K  - Mojo
    • True Security  - pulse (Tony Brown)
    • Listening In  - zzflop
    • Female Hackers  - MiStReSS DiVA (aka-Beui)
    • Desperate  - From a Wanna be Hacker
    • The Verizon Threat  - majickmutex

  • A Simple Hex Hack  - Registry hex editing (date editing) and the tools to use, by Zarathustra
  • Secrets of Dell  - Secrets of Dell tech support, by Deamtime
  • How Domains Are Stolen  - The potential for domain name hijacking, by Crim, Redomega
  • Playing With Dominos  - Explaining some of the more confusing points about Lotus Notes, by Dr. Clue
  • Java Applet Hacking  - Exploit password protected web pages via information revealed inside a Java archive, by Xprotocol
  • The Privacy Box  - Prevent phone extension pick up, by obitus
  • A Student's Privacy Security Survey  - Survey of private student information at various colleges and how it is protected, by Pip Macki (Mike S.)
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  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 17, Number 3 (Autumn 2000)

  • A Summer of Trials  - Editorial
  • Kernel Modification Using LKMs  - Detailed article on creating hidden loadable modules to alter a running Linux kernel, by dalai  (Josh D.)
  • How to Hack CyberTime Software   - Admin password hack for CyberTime - a Internet usage time management system, by Waphle
  • Target Advertising  - Advertising notes and how advertising can be seen as propaganda, by Hieimlich VonScootertraus the 53rd
  • An Introduction to Sprint ION  - Overview of Sprint's Integrated On Demand (ION) Network voice and data system, by The Prophet  (Similar Article)
  • The GeoSpatial Revolution  - Using Geographical Information Systems and the data they provide, by Silvio Manuel
  • Anomaly Detection Systems  - Using active intrusion detection systems, by Thuull
  • Hunting the Paper Carnivore  - A look at the FBI's Carnivore email scanning system and how it infringes on our rights, by BrotherBen
  • The Making of a Pseudo Felon  - Hacking story of a person caught scanning for "codes," by Brent Ranney
  • Flaws in Outsourced ECommerce Systems  - Potential security problems with E-commerce sites, by Dean Swift
  • Letters  - Reader Droppings
    • How Verizon Sucks  - Jeff, Kendall, Filthytot, Alterego, AM, Trouble Maker from WayBack
    • More Corporate Intimidation  - 7h3 31337 pHr34k4r0id, LoC, dot, robin, J-Fast, Secret Squirrel
    • Answers  - drakiel
    • IRC Bitching  - Muckraker, FLAMEcow
    • H2K Videos  - Hedgecore
    • Questions  - Phuct, kamal abbas, Theseus, Wolf
    • DeCSS/MPAA/DMCA  - Matt, Anonymous in Ireland, William, beezle, Brad Brown, phil, Decius 6i5 (Tom Cross), Scott, William Ryan, happitree, oddyOphile (Portland, Oregon, DOB: 05-10-1974), Quikfuze, Blanked Out, Woody
    • Misconceptions  - phx
    • More Info  - SLATAN, Will, Dave (Adelaide, Australia), jeremy, Cafeeen Boy, Mr. Roboto, Bowman, Court Jester, WStend, Immolation, kram12085, guinsu
    • Bypassing Napster  - Hedgecore
    • Mitnick  - illii, ReNt12596, Bill Dahab
    • Reprinting Stuff  - Jason Benton
    • The Old Days  - Akolade
    • More Government Stupidity  - Chad Ziccardi
    • Bookstores  - vesparado
    • Observations  - SuperHacker@aoI.com, COMTek, watice, Aulophobe (Phoenix, AZ), Kevin V. (Trenton, OH), Luminol, Stealth Ricochet, Queen Ann
    • Lotto Fever  - b0b126, DigitalZero
    • The Dangers of Info  - rootx11
    • Phone Problems  - Maria, Roark, Silverspartan
    • Schools  - Anonymous Hacker in England, SwordMage, YorNamHere, Herbert, SSGohan, Tweeter
    • Fast Food Facts  - Big Mac
    • Credit Files  - LoAN RAnGER (Colorado)

  • Finding a Target Using DNS Lookups  - man nslookup, by fU9A5i
  • Another Way to Defeat URL Filters  - Use a host's IP decimal equivalent to bypass web filters, by ASM_dood
  • Accessing Federal Court Records  - Getting access to various court records and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) systems, by Iconoclast
  • Zone Scanning  - Tips for scanning an entire network by only choosing the "important" machines, by DEFT
  • DeCSS in Words  - DeCSS is protected speech but the Pledge of Allegiance is not - figure that one out!  (Gallery of CSS Descramblers)
  • Build a Car Computer   - Build a computer/MP3 system for your car, by Megatron
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 17, Number 4 (Winter 2000-2001)

  • Direction  - Editorial
  • Introduction to Snooping Around  - Overview of basic Internet host snooping and network probing, by copycat
  • BellSouth's Mobitex Network  - Technical information and general overview of BellSouth's Mobitex wireless data networks, by Dspanky  (Dave)
  • An Introduction to Radio Scanning  - Detailed guide to the basics of radio scanners, searching for new frequencies, and signal analysis, by Sam Morse
  • More Java Fun  - Ideas for decompiling Java applets and trying to obtain passwords via <PARAM>, by FaultySignal9
  • Sub7 - Usage, Prevention, Removal  - Info on the Sub7 script kiddie remote administration Trojan program, by CaS
  • Get Anyone's Credit Report For Free  - Getting (other people's) credit card reports, by Ranaldo
  • Microsoft's Hook and Sinker  - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) info and questions, by LeXeR
  • Hacking an NT Domain from the Desktop  - Messing with Windows NT via the command line and adding yourself tot he local admin group, by Hi_RISC
  • The DVD Paper Chain  - DVD manufacturing info, by Common Knowledge
  • Polymorphism Script  - Demonstration of polymorphism in a Perl script, by xdroop  (David Mackintosh, Ottawa, Canada Twitter)
  • Letters  - Postal Prose
    • Clarifications  - D. Lopez, p4
    • Exciting News  - Katia S. McKeever (Foster City, CA)
    • The DeCSS Case  - MaD-HaTTeR, Dan, Reverend Lust, Ned Flanders, aUd10phY|, eggo, Pete Davis, carpman, DG, Tony, rootx11 (Farhan Khan), Michael, Weez, jys_f, Harry, Nitehawk, KisP, n3xu56 (Sam K.), Mistral, Jakob (Denmark), hiredgun
    • Hacker Ethics  - Lizard, Mannequin, joshstout
    • Newbies  - DreyDay_33 (New York, New York)
    • Hacker Fashion  - Downsouth
    • Scary News  - Katia S. McKeever
    • New Projects  - s0ny, CaseTheWig
    • Discoveries  - buster, Colin, Kyoya san, matt (anonymous), Mr. DNA, JEM, zzflop, Dan, Big Shooter, NaterZ, Bob
    • Questions  - mpower, mheyes, catfood, S0J073RO, Paper
    • Parallels of Oppression  - Cambalache20
    • Takedown Spotting  - Camandrett (Argentina)
    • More Corporate Evil  - B.R., Byran, Rebilacx (Matt, DOB: 03-08-1980), The Dude (iamnotahacker), BizarreOne
    • Annoying News  - Brigit Blomme (Foster City, CA)
    • Further Info  - Daewoo, narce
    • Suggestions  - arc, Pestaline, RevZer0
    • General Feedback  - Manic Velocity (Salt Lake City, UT), Viaticus, KoDo, HamAZ, Enzo, TBOTe, maldoror, Stark, Phil
    • The Politics of Change  - BATTERY, phillippe, chrisbid, Prehistoric Net-Guy
    • Schools  - Aragoren, Sekicho-sensei, data refill, student #3594, JoePunk102
    • Microsoftheadedness  - Hermit, CB, Agentskye101, jesus X
    • Spreading the Word  - Kent
    • Not News At All  - Katia S. McKeever

  • Confusing ANI and Other Phone Tricks  - Explains how to bypass CLASS services, spoof ANI to AT&T 800 numbers, and make free untraceable calls, by Lucky225
  • Jury Nullification and The Hacker  - Jury tricks and why hackers can make good jurists and to just say "not guilty" to bullsh!t charges, by Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Cop Proof Laptops  - Police car laptop computers like the PCMobile by CYCOMM, by Common Knowledge
  • Radio Shack's Newest Giveaway  - :CueCat info and usage tips, by canyoumatrix
  • Dissecting Shaw's Systems  - Cash register info for Shaw's supermarkets and manager login information, by Sect0r F4ilure
  • Hacking Free ISPs Using WinDump  - Hacking free dial-up ISPs and viewing the login information with WinDump, by rya
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 18

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 18, Number 1 (Spring 2001)

  • Signs of Hope  - Editorial
  • Police Searches of Computers  - Procedure for police searches and warrants, by Todd Garrison  (Denver, COo, MySpace, Band Info)
  • The Future of PKI  - Overview of the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) for credit and smart cards, by Elite158
  • PHP/CGI Vulnerabilities and Abuses  - Common security holes with PHP and Perl scripts, by L14
  • Breaking the Windows Script Encoder  - How to defeat and decode the infamous Windows Script Encoder, by Mr. Brownstone
  • Liberating Advants Terminals  - Bugs in Advants Internet kiosks, by Loki
  • A Romp Through System Security  - Overview of locally and remotely securing your Linux system, by Lumikant with help from Zarium
  • Hacking QuickAid Internet Stations  - Bugs in QuickAid Internet kiosks, by Durkeim the Withered God
  • The Billboard Liberation Front  - People with too much time on their hands
  • Computing with the Fabric of Reality  - Overview of quantum-based computers and their applications for defeating public-key crypto, by Chris Silva  (a.k.a. Sarah Jane Smith)
  • Letters  - SMS
    • Politics  - Lisa J., Ben Stragnell, Chris S.
    • Random Questions  - MiStReSS DiVA, Frank R. (San Antonio, TX), Equinox, Keyser Soze (Chris V.), Wax, muthu, EmptySet, Boneman, D'artagnon, haux, Philter (Chicago, IL), CyberInferno
    • Ideas  - Phredog@Work, Reverand_Daddy, DragonByte
    • Info Hungry  - Screeching Weasel
    • Random Fear  - Brad
    • Harassment  - Nate, Sam 'E', RagnSep, MajickMutex (Jenn), KNP, Corv
    • Cluelessness  - Parin, Randy Ford, Screamer Chaotix (Connecticut), SellOut
    • Observations  - C...., *31337*, Kyle, ~otacon~, RevZer0, Three, Mad Pyrotechnologist (Eric Schmiedl), Trigga Bistro, Your Mom, tnt419 (Tom M. Brady, MySpace, Toledo, OH), zerolemons, noire (Colorado), Eric, kju, almightycoop, Biohazard51 (DOB: 05-28-1988), Xian, zeitgeist (Germany), hemlock, Weez, patrick, rootx11, Sir_Poet, shader, gan0n
    • Discoveries  - Kal, Robb (Ireland), Splices
    • Memories  - Stevie B a.k.a. Blue Lightning
    • Fighting Back  - Scott, rene gonzalez, Marina Brown (MGN)
    • Voting Ideas  - SiON42, cstoll, Michael, anon
    • Article Feedback  - reuven, Tim, v-dick
    • Fun in the Stores  - xcham, AquaGlow
    • Legal Questions  - Joseph, Hy Stress
    • Advice  - noname
    • Technological Nightmares  - Xerxes2695, Jeffery, ^CircuiT^, Dalai, The_Chaotic_1 (Joseph, Email, DOB: 03-14-1985)
    • Offerings  - Simon Jester
    • From The Inside  - James, Eric Burns

  • Secrets of Electronic Shelf Labels  - Overview of supermarket LCD price labels, by Trailblazer  (Paul)
  • Anomaly Detection Systems, Part II  - Intrusion detection under Linux, by Thuull
  • The Anna Kournikova Virus  - Overview of the Anna Kournikova Virus, by 6M AL
  • Declawing Your :CueCat  - Removing the serial number from your :CueCat, by Lunius
  • Scum  - Realistic-looking "fake" bill
  • Takedown Taken Down  - Only $2600 Magazine can distort the truth about Kevin Mitnick and profit from him, by Evil Corley  (Scan: Page 1, Page 2)
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  • 2600 Meetings

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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 18, Number 2 (Summer 2001)

  • The Broken Wheels of Justice  - Editorial
  • What is Carnivore, Really?  - Overview of the FBI's Carnivore electronic interception program, by Achilles Outlaw, Ph.D.
  • Extra Polymorphic Worms  - Update to xdroop's polymorphism script article and ideas to bypass detecting systems, includes example Java code, by Dr. Leovinus
  • Everything Your Parents Told You About ESS Was a Lie  - Wow!  A good phone article!, by dalai
  • Michigan Memos  - Internal memos from Ameritech and Ford
  • How to Become a Hacker Saint  - Wow!  A stupid article!, by J-Fast
  • Misconceptions About TCP Wrappers  - Overview of using and securing TCP Wrappers rules and what to watch out for, by Golden_Eternity  (Blake R. Swopes, Ventura County, California, GitHub)
  • Hacking an NT 4 Domain from the Desktop - Revisited  - Scripts to gain administrative rights on Windows NT a email or crack the passwords, by Hi_Risc (a.k.a. ASB)
  • Popular Myths on Password Authentication  - How to chose secure passwords, by Stephen Thomas
  • Exploring HPUX Password Schemes  - Overview of the "Trusted Systems" protected password database scheme under HPUX 10.x, by Alex
  • Letters  - The Inbox
    • DeCSS Fallout  - gc, Anonymous Reader, Clown Father, Xerock, Avon, yonder, jeff weems, djeaux, Brian
    • Bypassing Restrictions  - mkr08, HacKz_jEEveZ, F.H., Av1d
    • Spying  - R Otterbine, The_Chaotic_1
    • School Stupidity  - Wetwarez, Newzweak, Phredog, Sam S., mr self destruct
    • Real World Stupidity  - dc66, Tizal, The Colonel, zeigeist, phobik, Chewie, Joe, Ray
    • Appreciation  - TwistedGreen (Donna Murawski, Windsor, Ontario), civilsurveydraft, nomad, Danny, Waldo, Cunning Linguist (Jeff Strauss), Ford Prefect, Sate, Thomas
    • Individual Perspectives  - KHD, Gil Young, kate, kaH220
    • Clarification  - kaige, Shadow Freq, Mike Walton, Qblade, Anonymous, Jeff, Dan, Scabby, Mike
    • Questions  - Neo, IM_Ruse, Mike G., SPAMLord, BillyNo, IceBlast, Double Helix, grant welch, Mikko, Peter, Kn0w, quatre
    • Corporate Stupidity  - 7h3 31337 pHr34k4z0id, Tony, Newspimp, niihon, litze, Thomas
    • Discoveries  - LazerBeamX, ryanx7, Cyrus, Morn_Star, SkorpiosDeath, toast666
    • Issue Problems  - doug, I1269U, Jizzbug
    • Napster Alternatives  - Shawn
    • Counterpoint  - Bob, Steve
    • An Idea  - My Name is Joe!
    • Voter Education  - Poll Watcher
    • A Call To Arms  - ICFN PMP

  • AOL At School  - Overview of the AOL at School program, by The Datapharmer
  • Fun With Fortres  - Messing with Fortres 101 Windows security program, by Amatus  (David Barksdale, Email #2)
  • AT&T At Home  - Info on AT&T @Home Internet services, by m0rtis (Daniel R. Wright)
  • The New AT&T Network  - Overview of AT&T's long-distance network updates after the article "ANI Spoofing" appeared, by Lucky225
  • Tell Me: Uses and Abuses  - Using and abusing the Tell Me wake up call services, by Screamer Chaotix  (Bridgeport, CT, Email #1, Email #2, Frequency Archive, YouTube Channel)
  • Snooping the Stack  - Snooping around the Internet, by ThinkT4nk  (Ryan McGowan, St. Louis, Missouri, Email #2)
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 18, Number 3 (Autumn 2001)

  • Page 33 Easter Egg: Snyy 2001, Cntr 33
  • Price: $5.00
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Blame everyone but the terrorists, typical.
  • Cover  The old New York Telephone (now Verizon) building in Manhattan was given a black color and blown up in size, giving it the appearance of a huge monolith.  The writing down the side of the building was a very loose Japanese translation of a famous phrase making the rounds: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," which itself came from a bad translation of the Zero Wing video game.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 19, Number 4 (Winter 2002-2003)

  • Positively  - Editorial
  • Passport Hacking Revisited  - Vulnerability in Microsoft Passport, by Chris Shiflett (Brooklyn, New York, Twitter)
  • Lazy Exchange Admins  - Security holes in Microsoft Exchange servers, by ddShelby (George M., Savannah, GA)
  • Warspying  - Portable receiver for wireless X10 cameras, by Particle Bored  (Additional Info)
  • CD Media Data Destruction  - How to destroy CDs, by Gr3y t0qu3
  • How to Make a DVD Backup  - How to rip, copy, and encode DVDs, by Maniac_Dan  (PDF)
  • Honeypots: Building the Better Hacker  - Overview of using computer honeypots and how they may not always be practical in stopping (or exposing) a really dedicated attacker, by Bland Inquisitor
  • DNS Redirection Stopped  - VB script to check IP-to-DNS mappings, by c0ld_b00t
  • More on Telemarketing  - More tricks for defeating telemarketers, by D. Foetus  (D.L. Jones)
  • Cracking Voter Fraud  - How to prevent fake voter registrations, by Kr@kH3d  (DFxC, Dominick)
  • Linux on the Xbox  - How to install Linux on an Xbox, by Live_wire
  • Removing Spyware and Adware  - man rm, by 0/\/3_3y3d_/\/\0/\/st3r
  • Exposing the Coinstar Network  - Overview of the Coinstar change machine network, by area_51
  • A Dumpster Diving Treasure  - Neat finds (Alteon iSD-100) in the garbage, by phantasm  (Robert Davies)
  • DMCA vs. DMCRA  - Ramblings, by Alex Daniel
  • Letters  - Blather
    • Spreading News  - NoSpahm, Keith, scott, Sardonicus, cybernard
    • Terrorism Related Issues  - Tresser, jmu, Herman, PLMN, Lectoid, Surfgods, LordKhamul, Hells-own, Kr00lee-O
    • Dumpster Diving  - Paddy, Nomad, Stinky
    • Feedback  - Traveler, XiChimos, joe, Bob M., Eil, Charles, Shadowfax0 (Kingston, Ontario), hawk2000, Poetics, Nietzsche, JaMm3r, Rob T. Firefly, Jason Argonaut, Resurrection20
    • Injustice Department  - deejayred2001 (Templeton, CA), Matt, Evnglion, im_source, Dune Tanaka, Todd
    • Thoughts On Piracy  - I1269U (Leilan, Harrisburg, PA)
    • Questions  - Super-Fly, In a TrAnCe, QuietShadow (Liz), Phate_2k2, Quiet Riot, ddShelby, Ganja51 (Kris Blommel, Rosemount, Minnesota), Tony
    • Observations  - Freddy, Quebec, Mark, The Nibbler, Spooky Chris, jesse, christopher, jasonburb, jmk, Radarjam, sunzi, Cambalache20, k1d0n, derrick
    • Tale From The Past  - John K.
    • Retail World  - Zac T., XiChimos, acj626 (Arleigh, Austell, GA), pinchepunk (J.M, Chicago, IL)
    • Parallels  - Sparkster
    • A New Project  - Poetics, Elf Qrin
    • Critique  - AGE_18, Dave D.
    • Significant Developments  - RusH, fstratto (Frank Stratton, Urbana, IL)
    • Defining Hackers  - f0x deacon
    • Reaching Out  - Nyght

  • .ncsc.mil (144.51.x.x)  - man dig
  • A Brief Introduction to DeepFreeze  - How the DeepFreeze blocking software works, by The Flatline
  • Beating Download Manager Protection  - Defeating file blocking on the web, by Straightface
  • DHCP is Your Friend!  - How to configure DHCP, by di0nysus
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 20

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 20, Number 1 (Spring 2003)

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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 21, Number 4 (Winter 2004-2005)

  • Stick Around  - Editorial
  • Hacking CDMA PRLs  - Hacking Preferred Roaming Lists, by The Prophet  (Audio Version)
  • An Old Trick for a New Dog: Wi-Fi and MITM  - Overview of Wi-Fi Man-in-the-Middle attacks, by uberpenguin (Matt Britt)
  • Vulnerabilities in Subscription Wireless  - Wi-Fi MAC spoofing, by wishbone
  • Best Buy's Uber Insecurity  - Info on Best Buy computer/network security, by skilar
  • Hijacking Auto-Run Programs for Improved Stealth  - Hiding running processes under Windows, by Forgotten247 (Shawn Maschino)
  • Catching Credit Card Fraud through Steganography  - Customize credit card charges to verify what you charge, by Anonymous Author MD5: d03d3293cd954af6bccd53eac5d828fc
  • Ad-Ware: The Art of Removal  - Overview of spyware removing programs, by Patrick Madigan (Doylestown, PA)
  • Tracking Wireless Neighbors  - How to monitor/track unwanted Wi-Fi users, by Sam Nitzberg
  • Backdooring the NAT'ed Network  - Somebody read the Netcat manual, by David Dunn
  • Electronic Warfare  - Overview of the different EW methods, by HOMA
  • Grokking for Answers  - How to search the interweb, by Bryan Elliott
  • Letters  - Back and Forth
    • Questions  - Deepen D. Shah (Livingston, NJ), Mike, Shell, Sheri Lowers, Carole, Nick (Florida), Sarma, LeStat, Andrew 0., Tabetha
    • Life's Little Experiences  - DemonEclipse, Austin D. (Washington), Alex (Massachusetts), Muhammad Adil
    • Discoveries  - Mr. Fairweather, LabGeek, Mike
    • Injustices  - Will, Black_Angel (Ligia Tinta), Tcc9mpl (Matt Lametta), Monkey Minister, Citron, waterboy382, Oz1980, Zacchini
    • Observations  - Narcess, Dr. Ultra Doom Laser, .:LOGIX:., Ryan, CSIN, TOneZ2600, jeff affiliate, Freakker, Hoser, Josh, OveRHaulT (Arvada, CO), 00 (Tampa, FL), Dufu, Anon, Shellcode, William, Brain Waste (New York, New York), Chris C.
    • Visibility  - niknak (Galway, Ireland), chris (Canada), Ruth (Puerto Rico), bookdrone
    • Additional Info  - Jon, brarsh, Redukt, BBVGoon2126, Crapinapale
    • Responses  - WhiteHat (Australia), Osi44 (Buenos Aires, Brazil), N@vi, BuffaloB, oZ, H, Paul, Dagfari, Evan, tutwabee  (Trey Hunner, San Diego, CA), Cabal Agent #1, Ellomdian
    • Gratitude  - Alexis, A little kid
    • Info Needed  - jjr, Jeff, PurpleSquid (Netherlands)

  • Hacking LaGard ComboGard Locks  - How to reset the combination, by ax0n  (Noah Dunker, Olathe, Kansas, Blogspot, Resume)
  • AVS Spanner Addendum  - A follow up to "A Simple but Effective Spanner in Your AVS" by Irving Washington in the 21:1 issue, by Suicidal
  • How to Own Star Search  - How to make little kids cry, by StankDawg
  • Hacking Ticketmaster  - Overview of the Ticketmaster system, by battery
  • Practical Paranoia  - Encryption notes, by MoJo
  • Building Cheap ID Cards  - Make your own bar code IDs with a :CueCat, by Barfbag  (Admin @ Team Blank)
  • Hotspot Tunneling  - Hiding you Wi-Fi traffic, by Samjack
  • Self-Checkout or ATM?  - Self-checkout machine bugs, by Bob Krinkle (Ryan R. Frederick)
  • 2600 Marketplace
  • 2600 Meetings


Volume 22

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 22, Number 1 (Spring 2005)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: You just paid $5.50 for a crossword puzzle
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Alicante, Spain  - A standard phone throughout the country.  It takes credit cards and coins.  In addition this phone has SMS and fax capabilities.  Photo by Gabriel Scott Dean
    • Alicante, Spain  - An older version of the Telefónica phone which has the same features but isn't nearly as pretty.  Photo by Gabriel Scott Dean
    • Seoul, South Korea  - One of many phones operated by KT.  This one has a very dominant coin slot as well as the ability to take cards.  Photos by Goran Topalovic
    • Seoul, South Korea  - Another KT phone.  The amount of space saved by not taking coins is striking.  Photos by Goran Topalovic
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • Samarkand, Uzbekistan  - Coins only but what a magnificent handset.  And just look how they've reconfigured the Tone-Tone pad!  Photo by Tom Mele
    • Mumbai, India  - A coin-operated phone at the Taj Mahal Hotel.  Photo by Tom Mele
    • Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka  - We've seen the actual phone in a previous issue but this rural phone booth is a striking sight.  Photo by Tom Mele
    • Firenze, Italy  - A space-age phone that looks as if it's about to burst with enthusiasm.  Photo by Lorette Masa
  • Back Cover Photo  This has to be about the worst idea ever concocted  We've heard of driverless light rail systems in the confines of an airport but huge steel freight train locomotives on an easily accessible track?  Technology marches on.  Found in Roseville, California.  Photo by Adrian Lamo
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 22, Number 2 (Summer 2005)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The people who try and censor you for having the wrong opinions, and vote for the most corrupt politicians in the world, now apparently care about your freedom.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Israeli Payphones
    • Downtown Jerusalem  Someone had to make the decision to put "FIRE" ahead of "AMBULANCE" even though it's out of numerical order.  Photo by Shibuya
    • Jerusalem's "Old City"  Not far from the Western Wall.  Seems like all of that yellow space is just begging for some graffiti.  Photo by Shibuya
    • Jerusalem  Near downtown.  An orange card-only phone with what appears to be the phone number above.  Photo by Shibuya
    • Jerusalem  In the shopping market district.  A gray version with complimentary beverages.  Photo by Shibuya
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • Tunisia  This payphone is located at the end of the Tunis Grand Metro in La Marsa.  It seems that payphones in Tunis only accept coins.  Photo by Richard Springs
    • Tunisia  This curvy payphone is located in a plaza in La Marsa.  This seems to be the newest model of payphones in Tunis.  Photo by Richard Springs
    • Tunisia  The payphone is located in the Tunis Airport.  This style seems to be the oldest model still in use.  Probably the most blue as well.  Photo by Richard Springs
    • Syria  A payphone from the Axis of Evil!  This phone is located next to a tea and shisha shop in Al-Hamidiyeh Souq.  It accepts both coins and prepaid cards, although coins are most commonly used.  Photo by Richard Springs
  • Back Cover Photo  We're pleased that Underwriter's Laboratories Inc. recognizes the value of our magazine and that they're willing to tell the world in such a bold an defiant manner.  Let's hope it catches on.  Found in Camas, Washington.  Photo by tOnedeph
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 22, Number 3 (Autumn 2005)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: You just paid $5.50 for a crossword puzzle
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Mongolian Payphones
    • Phone #1  Yes, this is a payphone.  In the streets of Ulaanbaatar, it's the human holding the phone who is referred to as the payphone.  Photo by Sasja Barentsen
    • Phone #2  The phone itself is a wireless CDMA phone.  You give the "payphone" money and you make a call.  And yes, most of them wear masks.  Photo by Hanneke Vermeulen
    • Phone #3  A more normal looking payphone but one that isn't seen in very many places.  This one was found in the post office.  Photo by Sasja Barentsen
    • Phone #4  Here's a variation, designed to appeal to travelers and others who may have second thoughts about walking up to a masked person.  Photo by Sasja Barentsen
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • Belarus #1  A pack of payphones hangs out in the streets of Minsk.  Photo by Emmanuel Goldstein
    • Belarus #2  A closer look at two of them with subtle differences.  Photo by Emmanuel Goldstein
    • Russia #1  These were found in the city of Yekaterinburg.  Photo by Emmanuel Goldstein
    • Russia #2  Very clean and rarely used due to the prevalence of mobile phones.  Photo by Emmanuel Goldstein
  • Back Cover Photo  From the Some People Have Entirely Too Much Time On Their Hands Dept., here is a true "minivan" recreation of our own 2600 van, made from a Tonka toy phone van picked up at an antique shop in Austin, Texas.  The tires are a little weird and our rear end looks a lot better, but it's a valiant effort.  Photos by Golden Helix
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 22, Number 4 (Winter 2005-2006)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: You just paid $5.50 for a crossword puzzle
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  North Korean Payphones!
    • North Korea Phone #1  In the lobby of the Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang.  This one only takes IC cards and makes local calls on the phone system that isn't connected to the outside world.  (North Korea has two phone systems - one is international-capable and the other can only place and receive domestic calls.)  Photo by TProphet
    • North Korea Phone #2  On the third floor of the Koryo Hotel, Pyongyang.  This one has international capability.  To use it, you make an appointment for an international phone call (there are only three international circuits so all usage must be scheduled) and place your call then.  You pay when you're finished.  Photo by TProphet
    • Jordan  This phone doesn't take coins or cards and can only call toll-free numbers.  Photo by Eric
    • Katrina  It's true that Katrina isn't a country and that this phone isn't foreign.  But it's definitely a payphone in a strange environment and a pretty sturdy one at that.  We assume the receiver is around somewhere.  Photo by Cameron Bunce
  • Back Inside  Iranian Payphones
    • Esfehan  Makes you realize just how insignificant the Touch-Tone pad is in the bigger scheme of things.  Photo by Qumars Bolourchian
    • Shiraz  A little worse for wear.  But what a unique cord.  Photo by Qumars Bolourchian
    • Tehran  A more modern model that only takes cards.  Photo by Qumars Bolourchian
    • Tehran  This is a true work of art.  At first glance it might seem as if someone just shoved a deskphone into a payphone kiosk.  But a coinslot has been added into this structure making it a true payphone.  It's unclear what that little padlock is protecting.  Photo by Qumars Bolourchian
  • Back Cover Photo  Here's living proof that reading 2600 will lead to trouble.  This little cluster of buildings in San Jose very subtly makes the connection.  People driving by see the huge 2600 on the building and rush on over thinking that this is our legendary west coast distribution center.  But when they arrive they get the message that becoming involved in 2600 will only wind up getting them sentenced as an adult.  Photos by Amorel
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Volume 23

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 2006)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: HOPE Number 6
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  More Katrina Phones
    • Phone #1  A New Orleans payphone in the Lakeview area that has seen things no payphone should ever have to see.  Photo by Chris Chambers
    • Phone #2  This area was only a few blocks from where the 17th Street Canal broke.  The phone had been submerged and the storage building next to it was overturned.  Photo by Chris Chambers
    • Phone #3  And this is what it looks like when a cable snaps.  Photo by Chris Chambers
    • Phone #4  This row of phones is located in St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans and was set up by BellSouth so residents could make calls (supposedly anywhere) for free.  Photo by Chris Chambers
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • India  Found in Mumbai Airport.  The phone on the left is a typical STD.ISD.PCO payphone with a coin slot.  The phone on the right is a credit card payphone.  Photo by William Garrison
    • Tunisia  Another look at the massive blue phones as seen in the arrivals lounge at Tunis Airport.  Photo by Joe Deuter
    • Austria  A few feet of snow has no effect whatsoever here.  Photo by slowburn
    • Malaysia  Found in the streets of Kuala Lumpur.  Photo by Gurt
  • Back Cover Photo #1  We've been looking for this police car for YEARS!  Congratulations to C6S6R8 for finding it somewhere in the streets of New York and for resisting the temptation to steal the license plate and mail it to us.  We appreciate that.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  Where else but in Ohio could such a sight be seen?  Well, probably in quite a few places but this one's a first for us.  Spotted by cojak in Columbus.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 23, Number 2 (Summer 2006)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Bush listening to some terrorist raghead's telephone call is bad, Clinton killing innocent White people at Waco & Ruby Ridge, and Obama/Biden weaponizing the (((DOJ))) to attack their political opponents is good.  Who's to blame?  Evil Corley.
  • Cover    (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • France  A stereotypically French payphone booth on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.  Photo by 303909
    • Ireland  This phone was seen in Dublin and is operated by Ireland's second largest telecom company, Smart Telecom, second to the former state-owned Eircom.  Photo by Tom Mele
    • Romania #1  Found in Sibiu, Transylvania.  Until quite recently, Romtelecom had the monopoly in Romania.  Photo by Michael Francois
    • Romania #2  Also found in Sibiu, Transylvania.  A couple of standard (and large) Romanian telephone booths.  Photo by Michael Francois
  • Back Inside  South American Payphones
    • Chile #1  In the tiny town of Cucao on Chiloé Island, this picturesque phone booth was found.  Photo by Pelayo Besa Vial
    • Chile #2  Apart from clashing with its surroundings, this blue phone resembles the old credit card phones that used to be all over the place in the States.  Photo by Pelayo Besa Vial
    • Brazil #1  Seen in Salvador, a city in the northeast of the country, where people often look as if they're being devoured by payphones.  Photos by Marta Strambi
    • Brazil #2  These phones are meant to resemble a folk instrument known as a berimbau, which looks remarkably similar - just not as scary.  Photos by Marta Strambi
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This is an interesting little nail care shop located in a strip mall on the corner of Rt. 59 and New York Ave., Naperville, Illinois.  Their explanation of the name is that it's either supposed to mean "unisex" or "uniques."  They apparently also run Windows.  Spotted by Wordsmith.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  Some of you may have heard of the recent Phoenix hostage standoff at the 2600 Building.  Our public relations department will stop at nothing to get our name out there.  Several of you sent us screen captures from your local TV news.  This one was sent by Phnx_fiend.  (And everyone got out safely.)
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 23, Number 3 (Autumn 2006)

  • Price: $5.50
  • Issue's Cash Cow: HOPE Number 6
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  More Iranian Payphones
    • Iran #1  One of the more modern public phones operated by the Iranian PTT in the northern part of Tehran.  Photo by op amp
    • Iran #2  An older public phone but easily one of the coolest designs we've ever seen on any phone old or new.  Found in Shiraz.  Photo by op amp
    • Iran #3  This is what a privately-operated payphone in Tehran looks like up close.  For those keeping track, the fee is 250 rials in coins.  Photo by op amp
    • Iran #4  Also in Tehran, this demonstrates how privately-operated payphones can literally be put anywhere that happens to be convenient.  Photo by op amp
  • Back Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • India  Yes, this is actually a payphone in Mumbai.  You pay the friendly guy at the counter and make a call.  This is very low tech but it provides service to the masses.  Photo by Michael Kane
    • Norway  This is a phone booth seen in the old section of Fredrikstad.  These are becoming very rare in the country.  Photo by A. Harjurju
    • Ghana  This is a phone from Cape Coast in the southern part of Ghana.  It looks like cards are the only way to pay in order to use the phone but it's not so easy to figure out what kind of card to use.  Photo by Patrice Beaulieu
    • Philippines  Found in General Santos.  PLDT, incidentally, stands for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.  Photo by Chris Crowley
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This is part of the secret 2600 compound in Lombard, Illinois where our readers gather for indoctrination sessions and to have their minds purified of anti-hacker rhetoric.  Uncovered by Stephen who will now have to be purged.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  An important part of any indoctrination is to get to the new crop of minds while they are still young.  Here we see this evidenced in the form of one of our elementary schools designed with a hacker curriculum in mind in Manchester, Georgia.  Taken without our consent by a free-spirited Mouser_inc who will be sent to the bigger building down the road for reeducation.
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Volume 24

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 24, Number 1 (Spring 2007)



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 24, Number 2 (Summer 2007)

  • Remaining Relevant  - Editorial

  • Discovering Vulns  - Introduction article on the different types of software vulnerabilities and how they are found, by Cliff

  • The Shifty Person's Guide to 0wning Tire Kingdom  - Week long adventure story about Tire Kingdom and their network of AS400s, by The Thermionic Overlord

  • Enhancing Nortel IP Phones with Open-Source Software  - Use DD-WRT with OpenVPN to use an IP phone at home as an extension of his office phone, by Ariel Saia

  • Telecom Informer  - SMS Short Code numbers and the scams that typically revolve around them, by The Prophet

  • Deobfuscation  - Reversing the obfuscation that SourceCop applies to PHP code, by Kousu  (Nick Guenther)

  • Getting 2600 the Safe Way  - Overly paranoid person sets up ASP script to tell him when this crap comes out, by daColombian

  • Fun at the Airport  - Security problems with TSA checkpoints, by Evil Wrangler

  • Hacking Xfire  - Tweaking the XFire games .INI files, including loading programs to create false game results, by Akurei

  • Hacker Perspective  - by Mitch Altman

  • Valuepoint  - Serious flaws in the Valuepoint wireless network service offered by many hotels, by Sidge.2 & Bimmerfan

  • Internet Archaeology  - How to gather historical/hidden information from websites using archive.org, by ilikenwf  (Matt Parnell)

  • Hacking Answers by Gateway  - How to get help from Gateway with pirated software, by Franz Kafka

  • Letters  - Opinions
    • Suggestions  - L0j1k, MS3FGX
    • Complaints  - Guitarmaniax (Peter Huggins, MySpace), Minstrel, Jacqueline, mikes, A Fan, Ignacio, SiKing
    • Response to Articles  - aa2600 (Dave), dthron, JB, Ugg, Wgoodf (Dale Goodfellow, Edinburgh, U.K.), Wesley, Short Blonde, NYC Locksmith, Pat
    • Response to Letters  - S. Pidgorny, Hennamono (John English, Littlehampton, West Sussex, U.K.), OSIN OSIN
    • Injustice  - Xiver0m, Barron, Kristian
    • Observations  - FeTuS in MN, Randall, ThrILL (Orlando, FL), DJ Walker, justin, Ian 2.0
    • Taking Action  - Anon
    • Security Issuse  - lucidRJT
    • Store Issues  - Matthew, Raven, Ben
    • Questions  - Macavity, M, Davis

  • VoIP Cellphones: The Call of the Future  - Different technologies being used to implement Voice over IP calling for cellphones, by Toni-Sama

  • Pandora Hack - Get Free MP3s  - How to download MP3s that are streamed to you by the Pandora internet radio station, by SickCodeMonkey (David Huggins)  (Alternate)

  • Adventures in Behavioral Linguistics  - People who are wishing really hard to have "Jedi mind tricks" in real life (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), by Marxc2001 (Mark Carney)

  • Transmissions  - Advice for improving your operational security in situations where you should be more paranoid, by Dragorn

  • An ISP Story  - Story about trying to help someone who is having their account compromised by unspecified MSN exploits, by Witchlight

  • Hacking Whipple Hill with XSS  - Cross-site scripting vulnerability in some school's schedule management software by Whipple Hill, by Azohko

  • Haunting the MS Mansion  - Windows XP system recovery using Norton Ghost 9 bootable CD, by Passdown

  • Reading Ebooks on an iPod  - Different options for converting long text files into multiple linked "Notes" for viewing on an iPod, by DBTC  (Andy Kaiser, Grand Rapids, Michigan)

  • Java Reverse Engineering  - Using a Java decompiler to make a key generator for Zend Studio, by quel

  • 2600 Marketplace

  • Puzzle  (Solution)  Data Matrix of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray AACS processing key: 0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 24, Number 3 (Autumn 2007)

  • Politics  - Editorial

  • VoIP Security: Shit or Get Off the POTS  - Summary of the risks of implementing VoIP in an organization, by Reid

  • Getting More Out of Your College Linux System  - I would recommend hanging onto this article so that you can present it to your school's IT staff when they round you up for being a nuisance on school-provided computers, by Silent Strider

  • Social Engineering and Pretexts  - Store detective and private investigator gives anecdotal advice and stories about social engineering, by Poacher

  • Telecom Informer  - History and purposes of PBX systems and their significance to phone phreaks, by The Prophet

  • Language Nonspecific: Back to Fundamentals  - How once you learn one programming language, you can easily learn others, and why it doesn't matter what language you use as long as you understand what its logically doing, by Kn1ghtl0rd

  • Front Door Hacking: Redux  - Another article on bump keying, by Darkarchives

  • A Penny For Your Laptop  - Very simple vulnerability in the Kensington MicroSaver notebook lock - use a penny to add tension and spinning the dials until they stick, by Atom Smasher

  • The RIAA's War on Terror  - Inaccurate story comparing anti-terror tactics to the RIAA's, by Glider

  • Free Files from Flash  - Tips for downloading Flash files directly by using a packet sniffer to get their exact URL, by DieselDragon  (Colin Blanchard, Farnborough, England, Blog, Twitter, YouTube Channel)

  • Target: For Credit Card Fraud  - Former employee of Target discloses a whole host of problems with the stores' computer networks and details a method of obtaining register transaction logs, including credit card information, by Anonymous

  • How to Get More from Your Sugar Mama  - How to cheat Virgin Mobile's Sugar Mama ad-supported free minutes program, as well as how to send free text messages through one of Virgin's web interfaces, by gLoBuS

  • Owning UTStarcom F1000  - How to unlock the UTStarcom F1000 VoIP phone, by ZiLg0  (Jeremy Brosnahan, Craftsbury Common, Vermont)

  • Hacker Perspective  - Results from the subscriber survey

  • Hacking 2600 Magazine Authors  - Security agent tracks down a $2600 Magazine author, by Agent Smith  (Possible Email)

  • Designing a Hacker Challenge  - Hacker challenge designed to help you and your crew find out who is the best, and who dies like the rest, by glutton

  • Hacking an Election  - Former employee of Elections Manitoba, gives a good description of how provincial elections work in Canada, by Dagfari (Dave Alexander)

  • How to Cheat Goog411  - How to make free phone calls using Google's 411 service (1-800-GOOG411) by setting up "fake" businesses, by PhreakerD7  (Website #2, Twitter)

  • Letters  - Yammering
    • Privacy  - A Broken Husband, Muddy
    • Safeguards  - inf3kT1D, AnOldFool
    • Submissions  - Michael, Tyler, ithilgore (Email), Josh, WC
    • Meetings  - Vince, MasterChen, John
    • Critique  - Jason Scott, Anonymous, Cliff, P3ngu1n, micah, Crazypete, D1vr0c, Nelson, Anonymous
    • Retail  - Michael, Justin, John, Trollaxor, Michael
    • Encryption  - Atom Smasher, SodaPhish
    • Questions  - dluvaisha, Elana, Haroon the Hacker (Grant Hayes), Zoran, Phail_Saph  (Email, BinRev Profile), Omid
    • Injustice  - The Invisible Man, carbide
    • Gratitude  - Jane Doe
    • Observations  - Rev. Troy, Arcade One, Jason, Mattew, Cyphertrex, acidie, ViSiOn

  • Hacking the Buffalo Air Station Wireless Router  - Default passwords on Buffalo wireless routers, by Donoli

  • The Thrill of Custom Caller ID Capabilities  - Discusses using caller ID for call routing to lower costs, simplify voice mail access and maintain a single number presence, by krt

  • Securing Your Traffic  - How to tunnel all of your traffic through SSH, by b1tl0ck

  • Transmissions  - Ethical implications of using open wireless access points, and then goes into the legal aspects of it, by Dragorn

  • Hacking the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector  - How to modify drivers and software for this device to unlock its use as a general purpose USB Wi-Fi device and access point, by MS3FGX  (Tom Nardi, Trenton, New Jersey)

  • Fun With International Internet Cafes  - Disable the timer on an Internet cafe computer in Bangkok by removing it from the startup entries and rebooting, by route

  • The Trouble with Library Records  - History behind INNOPAC, a popular library management system, by Barrett Brown  (Email)

  • The Life and Death of an American Help Desk Agent  - Good summary of the different tiers of support and their culture, by Geospart  (George Doscher, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Twitter)

  • 2600 Marketplace

  • Puzzle  A PDF417 barcode containing a quote from Winston Churchill that was broadcast on October 1, 1939 and said, "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."  (He was talking about the USSR.)

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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 24, Number 4 (Winter 2007-2008)


Volume 25

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring 2008)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Confusing FISA, a foreign intelligence act, with the (technically) legal monitoring U.S. citizens.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Argentina  It's hard to believe such old payphones are still in use but this one was indeed found in the Palermo Viejo district of Buenos Aires.  Photo by Kingpin
    • Barbados  Seen in Bridgetown, this has got to be one of the flashiest, most commercial telephones ever created.  Photo by Keith Hopkin
    • China  Seen in Songpan and conveniently next to a fire hydrant.  Photo by Ben Tanner
    • Ethiopia  Seen in Jimma and conveniently next to a trash can.  Photo by Ben Tanner
  • Back Inside  Weird Payphones Moments
    • Morocco  Found in Agadir, this is probably the most secure phone in the world.  At least in outward appearance.  Photo by Shareef Zawideh
    • England  No, it's not a hacker space.  It's actually a British Telecom facility in Leeds where payphones are tested.  Each payphone runs a TCP/IP stack over PPP.  Photo by Kokor Hekus
    • United States #1  We had heard that AT&T was dropping all payphone service.  Here's the proof.  This was spotted outside their Gardena, California office.  Photo by Jerry Dixon
    • United States #2    "
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Mungopw discovered this 60 foot sign right outside the Muckleshoot Indian Casino in Auburn, Washington.  We see the existence of "2600 machines" as an open invitation to hackers to come and try their luck.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Here's one of those tenant directory phones that you find at the entrances to apartment buildings.  You scan for the person's name and it dials them, often Touch-Toning their unlisted phone number for you to hear.  As you can see, this tenant has a rather interesting name.  Spotted (and hacked) by drlecter.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 25, Number 2 (Summer 2008)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The Best of $2600: A Hacker Odyssey
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Weird Ass Foreign Payphones
    • Tunisia  Found in Chebika, near the Algerian border.  This is the first payphone we've ever seen that specifically expresses hostility to cell phones.  Photo by Lawrence Stoskopf
    • Panama  Now here's something you don't see every day.  Unless you're in Boquete, a city in Chiriquí province, in which case you'd be used to this trailer of phones that was just dropped on an available dirt patch.  Note the phone cables running from the hitch on the left.  Photo by Xiguy
    • Fiji  Seen in Suva.  We can't really say for sure just what's going on here with the pincher-looking things.  Perhaps it's for those people with cell phones?  It could also conceivably be some sort of tribal pole.  Photo by Peter Vibert
    • Argentina  We'd love to know the story behind this one.  This payphone was found in the middle of the jungle at Iguazú National Park.  The sign translates to "Please do not put water on the telephone."  Too bad, it was exactly what we wanted to do when we saw it.  Photo by Martin
  • Back Inside  More Strange Foreign Payphones
    • Mali  At last we can say we have a payphone photo from Timbuktu.  And here you can relax outside the phone booth as well as inside.  Photo by Stephen Rice
    • Thailand  Found in Chiang Mai in the north.  This thing looks like a creature from The Terminator.  Let's hope it's on our side.  Photo by swan
    • Peru  Apparently you can save a lot of time and expense by simply drilling phones into stone walls around here.  These ones were found in a mountainous region.  Photo by Mark Jensen
    • India  This phone was seen in Bangalore.  It's about as retro a look as we could ever hope for.  Photo by Larry Cashdollar
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Tom discovered our secret Walmart trailer parked in a loading zone in an undisclosed part of the country where there were signs all over proclaiming "Camera Use Prohibited."  They really should know better, shouldn't they?
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Found in Phoenix, Arizona by David Jacobson, who believes this institution's motto should read: "Be debt free and never have to pay for the credit charges that you make in the future.  Hacker Financial can make it happen."
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 25, Number 3 (Autumn 2008)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The Last HOPE
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Really Strang Payphones
    • India #1  Another example of adaptation by the people of Bangalore.  These phones are pretty much just nailed to the tree.  Nothing unusual here.  Photo by infowallah
    • India #2    "
    • Puerto Rico  Seen in the El Condado area.  Try to spot what is unusual about this phone.  Hint: Something is missing.  Photo by Alex Llama
    • Dominican Republic  We know this is not a payphone.  But undoubtedly there are payphone lines hidden in this mess of wires somewhere.  Along with a million other things.  We pity the repairman who's called upon to find the source of a broken connection here.  Photo by TicoPhreak
  • Back Inside  More Funny Looking Payphones
    • United States  From a place that's actually called Big Arm in Montana comes this picturesque view of a simple payphone by the side of the road.  Photo by Thomas Fleming
    • Guinea  This phone was found in the capital city of Conakry.  It uses national carrier SOTELGUI's network.  The country also has at least three cellular networks.  Photo by alphabot
    • Ecuador  Seen at the equator at a tourist stop.  Porta also operates the largest GSM network in the country.  Photo by pelik
    • Canada  This is just your basic Canadian payphone manufactured ages ago by Northern Telecom.  But this scene from a highway in Alberta looks like some sort of classic painting.  This lonely phone is 39 miles from the U.S. border and 65 miles from any town.  Photo by Paul Rainey
  • Back Cover Photo #1  Motzie found this sign outside her local community college in Edison, New Jersey.  If ever there was a good place to have 2600 meetings, right underneath that sign would be it.  They even use the same font!
  • Back Cover Photo #2  The most elite train in Sweden as seen by Robert Luciani who rode it to Stockholm.  If we ever get around to chartering a train, this one is first on the list.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 25, Number 4 (Winter 2008-2009)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Satan's little helper (a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama) was "elected."  And Evil Corley voted for him...
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Azerbaijan #1  These distinctly different types of phones were both found in Baku, the capital city.  Photo by David Scott
    • Azerbaijan #2    "
    • Cyprus  This is a card-only phone found in the Greek half of capital city Nicosia.  Photo by Daniel Olewine
    • Malaysia  A neat little row of colorful phones found in Kuala Lumpur.  Photo by Matthew W.
  • Back Inside  Unusual Payphones
    • Antarctica  Yes, there are indeed payphones on the seventh continent.  This one can be found at New Zealand's Scott Base.  It only takes cards.  Photo by rooperator
    • Bahamas  Found on a cruise ship pier in Nassau, we are told there is indeed a payphone hidden somewhere within all those advertisements.  Photo by Scott
    • Australia  This is actually a radio payphone found on a Sydney to Canberra country train.  It uses satellite and mobile phone networks, and only accepts credit vouchers or credit cards.  Photo by Rowan Wilding
    • Morocco  Found somewhere in the middle of nowhere near Errachidia, this is one impressive phone booth (note writing that says "Telephone Public").  Unfortunately it was locked so the actual payphone remains a mystery.  Photo by Paul Rainey
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This is NOT the 2600 van but merely one of many cheap imitations.  Thanks to Vyrix who spotted this off US 290 in Houston, Texas.  Our lawyers will be following up with a copyright infringement suit.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  Now THIS is a van we'd be proud to own.  Actually this vehicle, spotted by asd dasdsa in Uijeongbu, South Korea, is a whole lot more than a mere van.  We really don't know what they're up to with this thing, but we want in.  (Their website, incidentally, could be used as a pictorial definition of the word "busy.")
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Volume 26

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2009)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Celebrating 26 years of this crap!
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Eastern European Payphones
    • Serbia #1  Found in Belgrade, these phones seem to be the prevailing model throughout the city and possibly the entire country.  Photos by Stevan Radanovic
    • Serbia #2      ""
    • Ukraine #1   Both of these phones were seen in the city of Cherkasy.  One is a newer model while the other is a slight bit older.  See if you can figure out which is which.  The older one was actually attached to the former KGB building.  Both are operated by Ukrtelecom.  Photos by Alex Kudelin
    • Ukraine #2      ""
  • Back Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Hungary #1  Seen in Szolnok in a quaint but graffiti ridden booth, this phone is operated by T-Com, a fully consolidated subsidiary of German phone giant Deutsche Telekom, the company best known for inventing the pink handset.  Photos by Rob Craig
    • Hungary #2      ""
    • Malaysia #1  Seen in the state of Johor in West Malaysia, these are two distinct types of payphones that have each been around for a while.  The first can be found in restaurants and other establishments while the second is more likely to be seen outdoors or in an unsecured environment.  Photos by Jayakanthan Lachmanan
    • Malaysia #2      ""
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This may indeed be the most "leet" highway in America, discovered by Rob Dolst somewhere on the tenuous border of Prince George County and Hopewell, Virginia.  The name "Crossing Boulevard," however, has to be among the lamest of the lame.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  This happens far more often than you might think.  It would be wise to warn parents everywhere that our magazine, although high in fiber and good for the brain, is not a substitute for the more traditional sustenance.  Thanks to Nick and his son Bruce for helping us get this message out.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2009)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Obama/Biden are gonna basically kill free speech on the Internet, but Evil Corley and the One Percent don't care because Obama is a negro jew-tools and Democrat.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of the Old World
    • Egypt  This phone box was located on the bank of the River Nile, just outside the Temple of Kom Ombo.  Photo by Ben Sampson
    • Egypt  Another common type of phone that can be seen throughout the country.  This one was found in Luxor.  Photo by troglow
    • Ukraine  This phone has obviously seen it all and still has managed to retain a sense of fashion.  Seen in Lviv.  Photo by c. sherman
    • Vatican City  Technically a country right in the middle of Rome, this may very well be the only payphone in existence there.  It can be found at St. Peter's Basilica on the "roof" overlooking Piazza San Pietro.  From this phone you are eye level with the 140 statues of saints.  Photo by Da Beave
  • Back Inside  More Foreign Payphones
    • Suriname  Found at the Torarica Hotel in Paramaribo, this payphone lacks an enclosure but has a sticker with the website for Telesur, the national telecommunications operator.  Photo by TProphet
    • Japan  A stylish and very busy phone, which was seen near the grounds of Kumamoto Castle on the island of Kyushu.  Photo by LART
    • Canada  It's amazing what you can do to an ordinary payphone with a little imagination and rustic charm.  Found in Fort Edmonton Park, a historical park in Alberta.  Photo by Carsen Q.
    • South Africa  Found at the waterfront in Cape Town, this Telkom payphone takes both coins and cards.  Photo by TProphet
  • Back Cover Photo #1  Perhaps you've heard of Hackers on a Plane?  Well, here we have Hackers on a Bus, discovered by Rolla J. in Budapest, Hungary.  Now if only this company would branch into air travel, we could really have some fun.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  O.K., let this be notice to all of you who call us in a panic every time someone on Jeopardy! has $2,600 on their display: it happens all the time and it's not a big deal anymore!  But when all three contestants have it, that's pretty damn cool.  This alignment was spotted and captured by Mike Troutman on April 4th, 2009.
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"Answer: Gets teenaged boys drunk at HOPE and sells other people's old BBS files."



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 26, Number 3 (Autumn 2009)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Hacking at Random 2009
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones in Exotic Places
    • Guatemala  One of the typical phones found throughout the country.  Photo by Gary Davenport
    • Burkina Faso  This rather dusty phone was found in the city of Ouagadougou.  Note the symbol for international calling: one flag connecting to another.  Photo by M J
    • Rwanda  Seen in the departures area of the Kigali Airport.  (It didn't work, incidentally.)  Photo by Jeffrey Mann
    • Mauritius  This brightly colored model that takes both coins and cards was discovered beside the Pereybère Beach in Pereybère.  Photo by Scott Brown
  • Back Inside  Unusual Looking Payphones
    • France  The unusual thing about this phone found in the countryside is the fact that it takes neither coins nor cards.  In fact, this phone can only make emergency calls or calls using credit or calling cards.  In France, the law states that every city, town, or village must have at least one payphone.  Photo by Mike Miller
    • Japan  They don't really get much pinker than this model, found in a park in Ueno, Tokyo.  Photo by Jim E. Etheredge II
    • Thailand  Seen in a place called Chiang Mai, or perhaps it was just a hallucination.  Photo by professor ned
    • Russia  This was actually the grand opening of a payphone in Kamchatka Oblast.  We can't even imagine one of our phones being celebrated so festively.  These people must really appreciate telephony.  Photo by Curtis Vaughan
  • Back Cover Photo #1  Now here's a campaign we can all get behind.  This race took place in Illinois and we don't really know how it turned out.  But that's not the point, is it?  Thanks to Rich Tordia for letting us know about our increasing political presence.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  Perhaps this is the true predecessor to 2600 meetings held on the third Tuesday after Easter.  Thanks to Mr. Skillz for letting us know how elite things once were back in the medieval days.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 26, Number 4 (Winter 2009-2010)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Human devolution with technology
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Unusual Payphones
    • United States  In the U.S., you might say payphones are a dying breed.  Found in Franklin, North Carolina outside a gas station on the highway 23/74 bypass.  Photo by Sam T. Hoover
    • Kyrgyzstan  Quite the opposite holds true in Kyrgyzstan, found in Bishkek.  These models have existed for ages in the old Soviet Union.  This one has been converted to Touch-Tone from rotary dial and it's also been freshly painted.  It's not going anywhere.  Photo by romano.tamo
    • Japan  We never tire of these weird little payphones found all over Japan.  One has to wonder what's really going on in all that space under the hood.  It being pink and rotary is just an added bonus.  Found in the lobby of a hotel in rural Suzuka.  Photo by Darren Stone
    • United States  And we're back in the United States again where (did we mention?) payphones are a dying breed.  And in a variety of styles.  Found in Newport Beach, California.  Photo by Matt Figroid
  • Back Inside  Unusual Phone Booths
    • Turks and Caicos Islands  One of these phones is not like the other.  These booths were found outside the phone company building in Grand Turk  The phone company, incidentally, is known as Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment (LIME).  Photo by Dieselpwner
    • New Zealand  This is about as grandiose as it gets.  This booth, found in Arrowtown, is closer to the size of an apartment than a phone booth.  Photo by Michael Hall
    • Lithuania  This one is just unusual on a variety of levels.  The colorful booth, the bright blue phone, the old street scene, even that strange word that means telephone.  This is, of course, in Lithuania, in the old town district of Vilnius.  Photo by Elvis
    • United States  In the U.S., payphones are going through a confusing period, as is evidenced by these ones found in West Caldwell, New Jersey.  Why they are Chinese-themed is anyone's guess.  They were seen outside a ShopRite in a neighborhood with no obvious Asian connection.  Photo by Conor Laverty
  • Back Cover Photo #1  Let's make this crystal clear.  We don't condone mindless graffiti that makes the world less attractive.  However, this is without a doubt one of the most beautiful applications of guerilla art that we've come across.  We're not sure what makes it so amazing but something in it speaks to us.  Thanks go to Nokier in Melbourne, Australia for spotting this (but not for creating it we presume).
  • Back Cover Photo #2  We can only imagine the possibilities of having German hackers design and build your kitchen.  Until that day comes, we'll be happy just to see this 18-wheeler go speeding past us on the Autobahn someday.  Discovered by Hollowpoint in Hemel Hempstead in England.
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Volume 27

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 27, Number 1 (Spring 2010)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Security and privacy issues with large companies handling your email and other personal data.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Italy  This neat little row of phones was seen in Venice and is a callback to the times when cell phones didn't even exist.  We suspect the voice quality on these models is also much better than today's norm.  Photo by Sean K.
    • Costa Rica  Seen at Manuel Antonio National Park just south of Quepos on the Pacific coast, this rugged little phone looks like it's been through a lot.  We're told the number is 2777-5188.  Photo by EJD
    • Russia #1  These were both found in the city of Tiksi, where you need special clearance to visit.  The rotary phone on the left was seen at their airport and has likely been there forever.  The more modern red phone was in a hotel lobby.  You might think this is the most northerly payphone photo we have.  You would be wrong.  We top this in just a few more photos.  Photo by Robert X
    • Russia #2    "
  • Back Inside  Unusual Payphones
    • Canada  This was seen in Ottawa in a place where people apparently come to let out all of their frustrations.  And we wouldn't be at all surprised if the phone still worked.  Photo by Etienne T
    • Norway  We believe this to be the most northerly payphone photo we have, found in Ny-Ålesund, one of the settlements on the island of Spitsbergen.  Only 750 miles from the North Pole, this phone connects to the world via satellite.  Photo by adder1972
    • Chile  It may take you a moment or two to even find the payphone here.  Seen in Valparaíso, this is an example of how a little bit of decorating can quickly spiral out of control.  Those prices, incidentally, are in Chilean pesos and are nothing to panic over.  Photo by Celeste Robert
    • United States  This is a great example of what can happen when people stop using payphones.  Telebeam operates (somewhere) in the streets of New York.  Perhaps this is the first truly green phone company.  Photo by Brooke
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This is one of those ironies where one could say we've "hacked" the photo to make it say "foto hacker" but in reality this is exactly how it appeared in Neckarsulm, Germany (home of Audi) as discovered by Teddy Du Champ.  There's really no limit to what you can find in a country where "hacker" is a fairly common name.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  There's no question that children like 2600.  Exhaustive market tests have consistently proven this.  But we never expected them to erect a shrine to us in a playground.  That is something we could definitely get used to.  Thanks to Damien for tracking this one down in Charleston, South Carolina.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 27, Number 2 (Summer 2010)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Dear Hacker - an entire book printed in italics!
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Asian Payphones
    • Malaysia  Seen in downtown Kuala Lumpur, this polka dotted phone booth is a rather common sight for this particular brand of phone.  We have no info on its square neighbor.  Photo by Nathan Linley
    • Malaysia  Found at the commuter train station in Kajang, here is a phone that has clearly seen far too much sun and advertising.  Photo by Nathan Linley
    • Singapore  This phone was discovered at one of those open air food centers known as "hawker centres."  Multicoin and multilingual, there doesn't seem to be much this phone can't do, except take cards.  Photo by Stylie
    • Brunei  Spotted in the Tasek Merimbun Heritage Park in the Tutong district.  Not really what we'd call "pay" phones but these days you can apparently just stick a desk phone in a payphone kiosk and get away with it.  Photo by Steve McCain
  • Back Inside  Mostly Asian Payphones
    • Thailand #1  Definitely one of the more alien-looking setups we've seen and the Thai alphabet on the booth only adds to that feel.  Found in Chiang Mai near a Buddhist temple, we're not entirely sure if the color scheme on the phone is just a really neat design or the remnants of something truly disgusting that got all over it.  Photo by Martin
    • Thailand #2    "
    • South Korea  It's hard to disagree with the sentiment expressed above this model when you realize that this phone is prepared to cheerily take on any task under the sun.  Discovered at the Seoul airport, it's ready to surf the net for either coins or cards.  Photo by John Hilger
    • United States  Oh how the mighty have fallen.  In this section's only non-Asian contribution, we see the continued disrespect that payphones and former payphone kiosks are treated with.  Spotted at the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee, it's apparently become necessary to remind people not to throw their trash into the space where the phone once was.  Photo by Peter Knauer
  • Back Cover Photo #1  This actually is far from the first speedometer picture we've gotten, but it's one of the coolest looking ones.  It comes from a 2010 Ford Fusion belonging to timi2shoes who set an alarm on his phone to keep from missing the magical event.  He had to pull off of a busy street and drive into an alleyway for a while in order to capture the 2600 moment.  Now that's dedication.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  This is one of the better looking "2600 lairs" that we've seen lately.  Spotted in Vancouver, Washington by MotoFox, this building has since had their huge red numbers removed.  Apparently, too many readers were showing up to get autographs.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 27, Number 3 (Autumn 2010)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: WikiLeaks, falsely claiming civilians were intentionally killed when the raw, unedited video evidence proves otherwise.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Unusual Payphones
    • Japan  What's unusual about this payphone?  Well, it's a bit weird to find a phone inside an actual cedar tree - or, at least, what's left of one.  Apparently this sort of thing isn't a big deal on the island of Yakushima.  Photo by Kevin Campbell
    • United States  Seen somewhere on the highway from Alaska to the border with Canada.  Unusual in that it's rather hard to find payphones in American cities, let alone in the middle of nowhere.  Photo by Greg Thompson
    • United States  O.K., three guesses as to what's unusual about this one, found at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport.  Give up?  It's really unusual for us to feature two American phones on the same page or even in the same issue.  (If you thought it was unusual for there to be such a huge buildup to something that turned out not to even exist, that's actually quite common in the States.)  Photo by William Ellis
    • Spain  This, too, is an unusual sight, seen in the city of Ronda.  This abandoned payphone kiosk is right on top of a cliff.  But, at least this non-phone doesn't have all sorts of signs advertising its non-presence, plus it fits in pretty well with the surroundings.  We might even be able to convince ourselves that this is a monument to an ancient intelligent civilization, long since passed.  Photo by Kim Moser
  • Back Inside  Payphones in Interesting Places
    • Iran  This phone relies on a wireless connection and can be found in the countryside and along the highway.  Photo by bvdp
    • Iran  This somewhat older and scarier model was seen in a suburb of Tehran.  A true fortress phone.  Photo by bvdp
    • United States  Again?!  Yes, an unprecedented third American picture in the same issue.  This one is interesting because it's one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City.  But this one isn't exactly in a place where tourists will come upon it: It was found in the horse stalls at the Belmont Park racetrack.  Photo by Gregory Kline
    • Kazakhstan  This phone is inside the walled city of Baikonur, residential hub of the Baikonur Cosmodrome and heart of the Russian space world.  Despite being in Kazakhstan, Baikonur is administered by the Russian government, and access is by invitation of the Russian Space Agency only.  This box is on Abay Street, the main east-west drag in town.  Photo by Isaac Wilson IV
  • Back Cover Photo #1  We're slowly coming to the realization that "Hacker" is a real name in many places and has nothing to do with the actual hacking of computers.  But "Hackmore?"  That just sounds like a rallying cry to us.  Spotted by Jeff Lacy in Sacramento County, California.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  It's a toss-up as to which is funnier: a computer store whose address happens to have a "2600" in it or the 'personal data removal" line in the vicinity.  Not that we do that sort of thing or approve of anyone's data getting deleted.  But the mainstream might find themselves subconsciously avoiding this place.  Found by Damon Melendez in Pittsburgh.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter 2010-2011)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The move to digital publishing and it's potential effects on the hacking community.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of Foreign Lands
    • Cuba?  United States?  We honestly don't know.  It's that strange bit of reality where the USA somehow has a military base and infamous prison on the land of one of its enemies.  And yes, they have payphones there.  From the looks of them, they're a lot more American than Cuban.  These phones are located in front of the Navy Exchange (the Navy's version of Walmart).  Photo by mavrik72
    • Cuba?  United States?  These phones are in front of a furniture store currently undergoing renovations.  We're told the phones will be back.  Photo by mavrik72
    • Hungary  Found in Budapest, this old style booth is operated by Magyar Telekom (a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, hence the trademark pink handset) and also serves as an ad for a local cafe.  Photo by Erwin Goslawski
    • South Africa  In Pretoria, this is a fairly common sight.  The payphone operator is a human.  You pay them and you get to use the phone for a while.  The system uses some sort of VoIP over 3G.  Photo by Breto
  • Back Inside  Payphones with Distractions
    • China  Seen in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.  This is where Mao Zedong was supposedly converted to Communism.  If you look carefully, you should be able to see his statue in the distance.  Photo by Tony Anastasio
    • United States  Found in a place called Volcano, California, this phone, like the previous one, also lies in the shadow of a national hero.  Superman's plea reads: "Please do not vandalize this phone booth.  I have no place else to change clothes."  Photo by Scott Webb
    • England  This phone is said to still exist in The George Tavern in East London.  The fact that God himself may be trying to get through is overshadowed by the fact that this is actually a true rotary-dial phone.  Photo by Sam
    • United States  Seen in New Paltz, New York, it's not really fair to call the message here a distraction to a payphone, since in fact there is no payphone.  But the message is one that we must always heed, even if the phone companies won't.  Photo by Rocco Rizzo
  • Back Cover Photo #1  You know it's your lucky day when a speeding locomotive heading in your direction has those magic numbers on it.  Spotted in Wisconsin by Mike Yuhas, who was definitely in the right place at the right time.
  • Back Cover Photo #2  This is from a hotel in Deerfield Beach, Florida, as discovered by ateam.  There's another sign in the same complex that says "Guest Parking," but somehow this one tends to draw more of a crowd, who perhaps think this is where the Club-Mate shipment comes in.
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Volume 28

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring 2011)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Starting more (((Kinetic Military Actions))) in the Middle East, but now it's O.K. because Obama is the president.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • Spain  Found in the winding streets of the ancient city of Granada in the southern part of the country.  Takes both coins and cards.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • Italy  Seen in the small town of Riomaggiore, in the Cinque Terre region of the north.  While this model doesn't take coins, there are others like it that do.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • Belgium #1  A study of two standard payphones with very different upbringings in the city of Brussels.  With this kind of cultural clash going on, is it any wonder the country is being torn asunder?  Photo by Sean K
    • Belgium #2    "
  • Back Inside  International Payphones
    • Japan  Discovered in Hiroshima, about a block away from the Atomic Bomb Dome and only 30 meters from the actual hypocenter of the A-bomb dropped on the city.  Photo by F.K. Martens
    • Egypt  Not really in the center of all of the recent mayhem, this phone nonetheless could have been used to spread the word from the relatively tourist-friendly area of Luxor.  Photo by Andrew Song
    • Malaysia  Seen in the city of Miri on the island of Borneo.  Only coins are accepted here but they won't do you a whole lot of good without the handset.  Photo by Jimmy Winslow
    • Ghana  This phone was found in Abetifi-Kwahu.  Almost every last person in the country uses cell phone service from either TIGO, Vodafone, or MTN.  AT&T has a presence, but it is very limited.  Photo by Dufu
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Thanks to Jim Osborn for letting us know about "The 2600 Building," one of the most desirable properties in Palm Beach, Florida.  As Jim suggests, this might be a good place for hackers to retire, provided the bandwidth was sufficient.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  A building of an entirely different nature was found by Kit Wong in Sacramento, California.  We might have been able to say that this was the center of all of our financial dealings if the address only had "capital" rather than "capitol" in it.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 28, Number 2 (Summer 2011)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Why you should purchase the electronic versions of $2600 Magazine and not download them here for free.  Heh...
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Albania  Seen in the capital city of Tirana, this is the standard model that takes only cards.  And yes, "Shqiptar" is an ethonym for the Albanian language.  But you knew that.  Photo by Kyle Drosdick
    • Israel  This bright orange and black model can be found in Jerusalem and does not take coins.  We firmly believe that colorful payphones brighten everyone's day.  Photo by FA
    • Iran #1  Both of these very different models are used in the streets of Tehran.  One is old and takes coins, one is newer and takes cards.  But they each exist under the exact same style of canopy.  There's probably a lesson in here somewhere.  Photo by Venture37
    • Iran #2    "
  • Back Inside  Disrespect & Respect
    • United States  It's like some sort of creepy ghost story.  There once were six happy payphones here.  Six!  All that remains now are empty shells.  (And all of the people seem to have vanished, too.)  Seen in Nantucket, Massachusetts.  Photo by Jules
    • United States  Talk about no respect.  Here we have a Home Depot in Reston, Virginia that apparently thinks an empty shelf serves more of a purpose than an actual functioning payphone.  We fear they may be right.  Photo by Melissa Jonas
    • Canada  Sure, maybe nobody's using the damn thing.  But at least it looks attractive and artistic.  So the next time you see a lonely payphone, think about making it look pretty.  This one was found in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Photo by Lani Johnson
    • Taiwan  Someone always has to go a bit overboard, don't they?  This phone, seen at TPE Airport's international terminal in Taipei, is definitely too pretty for anyone to take seriously.  The Hello Kitty craze has really gotten out of hand.  Photo by Henrik
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  This auto collision shop, discovered by KC7EPH in Seattle, is not our latest business venture.  But they did manage to frame the 2600 in an almost perfect position for a future cover.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Yes, it's another 2600 building, this one found by Jules in Lighthouse Point, Florida.  We don't know about having the solution to the national debt problem, but we do know this building is for sale and would make a dandy hacker space.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 28, Number 3 (Autumn 2011)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: People who whine about censorship, but then run around trying to shut down websites and forums they don't agree with.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • Denmark #1  In Copenhagen, there is a choice between blood-stained and generic models of the basic payphone.  Neither appears to be overly popular at the moment.  Photo by Jason Barna
    • Denmark #2    "
    • Luxembourg  Seen in the town of Manternach and operated by Ascom of Switzerland.  Photo by Alex Hamling
    • France  Found in a bathroom area in Paris, which is probably how this old-style payphone has evaded replacement for so long.  Note that the coin slots still ask for French francs.  Photo by Keith Hopkin
  • Back Inside  Retro Payphones of the USA
    • Hackensack  Ruins of an ancient payphone civilization which once thrived in Hackensack, New Jersey.  The demise of the payphone has been a boon to the flyer community, who now have sheltered spots for their advertisements.  Photo by Marcus Daniels
    • Rotterdam  Here we see that some of the electronics have been left behind but not enough to complete a call, hence the crossing out of the word "phone" from the display by a concerned citizen.  Seen in Rotterdam, New York.  Photo by Rich Gattie
    • Los Angeles  This is the first stage towards the remodeling of a working payphone into the more popular nonfunctioning design.  The phone is still there but the earpiece has been smashed and the coin return removed.  It won't be long now.  Spotted in Los Angeles, California.  Photo by Tyler Lawrence
    • Washington, D.C.  All that's left here is a wire.  Ironically, this shell was seen in the basement level of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., which we all know is located at 2600 Virginia Avenue.  Photo by kondspi
  • Back
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Yeah, we know the image quality sucks, but when something like this appears in front of you, there isn't a whole lot of time to grab the best camera equipment.  Thanks to Christopher Borders for spotting this in Kent Island, Maryland two summers ago and waiting until now to tell us about it!
    • Back Cover Photo #2  How does one even find something like this?  Who could have ever guessed that there was an official 2600 sofa for sale somewhere in the world?  Thanks to Russ for stumbling upon this in Gaylord, Michigan.  The perfect finishing touch for a local hackerspace, perhaps?
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 28, Number 4 (Winter 2011-2012)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: "Occupy Wall Street" which is funded by the same Marxist billionaires [i.e. (((Soros Family ✡)))] who fund Pacifica Radio, the Democrat party, and other loony causes Evil Corley and the One Percent engage in.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Ecuador  Seen in the small village of Puerto Ayora in the Galápagos Islands, this card-only phone is practically screaming for attention.  Claro, incidentally, is part of Mexican phone company América Móvil.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • Croatia  Found in Karlovac, this phone is part of German giant Deutsche Telekom, as evidenced by the T-Com branding and the pink handset.  All in all, this phone has a rather trippy aura to it.  Cards only.  Photo by Zafrik
    • Israel  This phone was discovered in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Once again, it's a phone that only takes cards.  Coins seem to be rapidly going out of fashion.  Photo by Josh Dick
    • France  Found in the town of Porto-Vecchio on the island of Corsica, this France Telecom-operated payphone surprises no one by only accepting cards and making for a clean sweep on this page.  Photo by Vincent
  • Back Inside  Payphones with Character
    • Canary Islands  This phone looks as if it could tell a story or two of some of the things it's seen.  It's from an unusual place: Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands of Spain.  It accepts cards and coins.  Photo by Zawaideh
    • United States  Then you come across something like this, a payphone literally residing in a cornfield near Gap, Pennsylvania.  It looks like it could easily get accidentally harvested one of these years.  Photo by Paul LoSacco
    • United States  And this one was found in Detroit.  Now be honest.  Is this not exactly how you expected a payphone in Detroit to look?  Photo by Anthony M. Bolek
    • United States  As long as we're poking fun at places, here's a pretty typical look for a Brooklyn payphone - dirty and colorful while possessing a rather interesting shape.  Photo by Franco Medel
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  If this isn't the ultimate portrayal of what one of our buildings might look like once we turn evil, we'd like to see what could possibly top it.  No windows, surveillance everywhere, our name providing the only color in sight...  We can dream.  Thanks to bishun and Teri of Minneapolis for this discovery.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  There's a bit of an odd story behind this one.  Sure, we can hint that we've become part of the Independent Grocers Alliance, which is a great way of distributing Club-Mate.  Nothing odd there.  What's interesting is that a mere two days before we got this contribution from Kurth Bemis in the Hochelaga region of Montreal, we got the same submission from Teanose, who says he discovered it "while sitting in a parking lot late at night eating a Mickey D's double quarter pounder."  What are the odds?  Anyway, we preferred the day shot, so Kurth wins this one.  That is, assuming they're not both the same person.  Otherwise, we may have just started a feud.
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Volume 29

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 2012)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Overview of the out-of-control Internet censorship bills/act we've seen over the past year or so by the corrupt Obama regime.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • Spain  Nothing like a payphone that's part of some majestic scenery.  This was seen in the plaza known as Puerta del Sol in Madrid near the monument to King Charles III.  Photo by Champ Clark III
    • Portugal  Payphones just seem to get much better views in Europe. This one is outside of the Carmo Church ruins in Lisbon.  Photo by Champ Clark III
    • Russia  This gem was found in Moscow Oblast near the Pionerskaya rail station.  As a slap in the face to the ways of old, they didn't even consider putting the new payphone inside the old phone booth.  The irony must be particularly biting in the winter.  Photo by IW4
    • Italy  Discovered in the skiing community of Sauze d'Oulx, there's something rather eerie and alien about this pair, silently standing guard while crowds of people innocently go about their business and pay them no mind.  One day...  Photo by Oli Wright
  • Back Inside  Worldly Payphones
    • Morocco  Seen in Casablanca near the Olive Market.  An old school phone that only takes coins.  Photo by Eduardo
    • Ascension Island  If you find yourself using this payphone in Georgetown (population 450), odds are you're calling a really long distance.  Located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, this phone only accepts prepaid Cable & Wireless phone cards.  Photo by Jim Hardisty
    • Gambia  We don't know a lot about this one as it came with no details whatsoever.  But we do know that it's not that often you get to see a payphone from wherever this one happens to be.  Photo by Aldous Snow
    • Mexico  Someone in Yal-ku Lagoon has a good sense of humor, although an actual tin can would have been more accurate.  Photo by scott
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  We get many photos of people's odometers that have just hit the magic number.  Usually, they pull over and have a bit of a celebration when they take the picture.  Not here.  Travel'n Man apparently didn't even slow down when the historic moment occurred.  Or maybe he did, which is even scarier.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  For many people, the thought of hackers messing with plumbing might lead to many sleepless nights.  Not so in Carlisle, Indiana where Chris Gibson spotted this crew of hackers who were working on the pipes at a local truck stop.  We are indeed everywhere.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 29, Number 2 (Summer 2012)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Richard O'Dwyer and his TVShack website being shutdown for linking to TV streaming websites.  Note that Evil Corley supported and voted for the people who shut down his website!
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Global Payphones
    • Russia  It is strictly forbidden to take any pictures in, on, or around airports in the Russian Federation.  Even the payphone looks angry.  This one was found in the Yakutsk airport.  Photo by Robert
    • New Zealand  Found in the Post Office Square of Wellington, this phone does something weird: when you pick it up, you hear the sounds of a crowded French cafe instead of a dial tone.  But you can still dial.  Photo by Breto
    • India  This "coin box telephone" was spotted in a forgotten corner of a New Delhi department store.  Photo by Jack Jordan
    • Morocco  Probably one of the most secure payphones around.  Spotted in Tangier, this one only takes coins.  Photo by TProphet
  • Back Inside  More Global Payphones
    • Iceland  Found in Reykjavik on New Year's Eve, this is pretty much what you would expect a phone booth to look like up there at that time of year.  Photo by Eric H. Jung
    • India  Found in the streets of Mysore, this is one of the few remaining coin-operated phones.  Naturally, it seems a bit worse for wear.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • Ukraine  Seen in the city of Lviv, this is old-school in more ways than we can count.  Photo by Corey Sherman
    • Taiwan  A typical card reading phone spotted in Taipei.  Photo by Bruce Robin
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  This is really something you don't see very often.  It comes from a semi truck tank with multiple compartments, a baffle system, and an overfill safety system.  Leighton Brooks tells us that it fills until you release a valve (so that dead people can't operate it), and it runs 60 gallons or so over the amount it was released at.  So this was quite a coincidence on a compartment that was already partially full.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Back in the day when everyone was Red Boxing at payphones, some of the devices were a lot larger than most.  This one was so large that it had a bathroom attachment.  Found by Bill Gaines in Lake Grove, New York.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 29, Number 3 (Autumn 2012)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: How people have come to accept a (((surveillance society))).
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of the Arab World
    • United Arab Emirates  This brightly colored phone was seen in Abu Dhabi where even the trash manages to be color coordinated.  This phone only takes cards.  Photo by DrJeep
    • Egypt  People in Alexandria have the choice of using the red handset or the blue one.  It has absolutely nothing to do with The Matrix nor with rising up against oppressors and eventually winning.  But there do seem to be more red ones.  Photo by 1188
    • Libya #1  This phone was found in Green Square in Tripoli, where there's still a bit of cleaning up to do.  The booth itself is mostly used for posting political campaign ads while the inside does a pretty good job as a trash receptacle.  If you're looking for a handset here, you'll have a tough time.  Photo by Tony Anastasio
    • Libya #2    ""
  • Back Inside  Payphone/Booth Alterations
    • Scotland  Found in Cleish, the traditional red booth that used to be seen everywhere in the United Kingdom has now found an alternate use as a bastion of information.  We hope at least there's a phone book in there.  Photo by Sarx
    • United States  What are the odds of getting two such submissions for the same issue? Seen on Broome Street in New York City, this library is a bit smaller, but with room to expand.  Complete with locking doors.  Photo by John
    • South Korea  Not really a payphone and not really an alteration, but an example of why we encourage submitters not to have humans in the shot.  The result here looks like some kind of weird phone creature staring back at us.  This regular phone inside a phone booth was found at the Rodriguez Range U.S. military installation.  Photo by Josephus
    • France  This can be thought of as a doubly foreign payphone, since the traditional red booth immigrated from the United Kingdom and the phone itself is in the French city of Pontorson.  In all likelihood, the components came from someplace else, so this represents a real melting pot of telephony.  Photo by Tom
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  We're not going to kid ourselves into thinking that this picture wasn't doctored a bit.  We suspect that the total price was $26.00 and the amount of gallons was 6.667.  Removing the decimal points and the 7 made this look like a truly "Satanic gas pump," as Dor Occas tells us.  It's close.  The only time that such a numerical lineup would be possible is when the price is $3.899 a gallon (since pumps in this country always have prices that end in nine-tenths of a cent).  Now, if someone can find a pump that only shows two numbers to the right of the decimal point rather than three, the amount of gallons could actually show up as 6.66.  (We'll overlook the decimal points.)
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Talk about numerical lineups!  This one, according to Barry Mullins, was a big coincidence.  He was bidding for the famous Cap'n Crunch whistle that emits 2600 Hz and this was his winning bid.  What makes it even better is that he bid a higher amount and this is what eBay calculated as the final price.  It was clearly meant to be.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 29, Number 4 (Winter 2012-2013)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and how hackers can help keep Internet connections up
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Unusual Phones
    • Legoland  Not really a country or even a city, so we should probably say that this was seen in Carlsbad, California at the aforementioned theme park.  Considering the way payphones are being abandoned, you might just as well have these start popping up to replace them.  Photo by Dave G
    • United States  Sure, why not?  It's not like anyone is going to be using that phone, if there even is a phone underneath all that and if it's actually working.  Perhaps converting former kiosks and phone booths into mini art galleries is the way to go.  This was seen in Jamaica Plain in Boston, Massachusetts.  Photo by Ernesto Valencia
    • Norway  This is just the coolest phone ever.  We don't care how old it is - whoever concocted this design clearly understood the concept of "rugged."  No doubt it'll outlive us all.  This can be seen in the tiny port of Barentsburg, which is the Russian settlement on Spitsbergen, 78 degrees north.  It's used for calls within the settlement of 500 people.  Photo by Snorre Steen
    • Switzerland  Speaking of rugged, this phone booth was found inside the Gonzen iron mine in Sargans.  To be fair, the mine hasn't been used since 1966, and perhaps the phone hasn't been either.  Or maybe it's used by tourists who can't get their cell phones to work.  Whichever it is, this one qualifies for being well off the beaten path.  Photo by Markus Bruetsch
  • Back Inside  More Broken Payphones
    • Disneyland  Again, technically not a city or country, at least not to us.  This sad specimen was seen inside the Disneyland Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim where they actually have permanent signs affixed to disabled payphones.  A true sign of the times.  Photo by Curtis Vaughan
    • Washington D.C.  In this case, it's probably a good thing that this payphone was removed, as we can only imagine how unpleasant an extended conversation could become.  This also aptly illustrates America's changing priorities.  Photo by Dave Burnett
    • Copenhagen  At least in Denmark, when they retire payphones, they make a big deal out of it.Photo by Patrik Larsson
    • Portland, Oregon  Always good to see a sense of humor in an otherwise somber setting.  Photo by Brett Campbell
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  This sign really sums up the hacker mentality.  You can either go along with the masses on a tour of the world's biggest "closed system" or you can come join 2600 to bypass that and get on the inside.  That this was found at the site of the famous and historic Biosphere experiments is icing on the cake.  Thanks to Ashes for finding this in Oracle, Arizona.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  So we go from a site that housed space colonization experiments to the opposite end of the spectrum: an abandoned school in Detroit.  But 2600 exists here too to bear witness to the desolation.  Maybe this would be a good site for a 2600 meeting.  (No, seriously, that's a really bad idea.)  Thanks to Kevin Costain for discovering this near Brush Park.  We agree with his suggestion of renaming this place the "2600 School of Hard Knocks."
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Volume 30

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring 2013)

  • Price: $6.25
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Aaron Swartz's JSTOR hacking case and his subsequent death from an overzealous "justice" system.  Note the judge (Carmen Ortiz) in this case was an affirmative action Obama appointee.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • Austria  A typical payphone seen in Vienna, with a good deal of color used on the phone and a surrounding structure that means business.  This is the kind of respect payphones used to get.  Photo by Arys.
    • France  A standard card-reading phone found in the southern city of Nice.  This model will likely outlive us all.  Photo by PeiterZ
    • Ukraine  If a payphone could talk, this one would have some real stories to share.  This model looks like it's been around from Day One of the phone era.  Seen in Donetsk Oblast.  Photo by Ryan Scott
    • Poland  While the phone that was here can no longer tell stories, the booth looks like it's weathered a few, to say the least.  Discovered in a district of Warsaw called Fort Wola.  Photo by Mark Zuckerbe_g
  • Back Inside  Worldly Payphones
    • Japan  A standard colorful green box, found all throughout the country.  This one turned up on the island of Okinawa.  Photo by Steve H
    • Iraq  Found in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region.  Rarely used, these phones operate using a prepaid calling card only.  Photo by Shivan Muhealden
    • Belize  This colorful phone, found in Placencia, seems designed mostly for tourists, as it seems quite eager to help people make international calls, and the only payment option is credit/calling card.  Photo by MTTRN
    • Peru  Found at Nazca Airport near the famous Nazca Lines of 400-650 AD, this unusual phone uses GSM due to its remoteness.  That little black cone on the top is a GSM antenna.  We're told the GSM company and signal strength are displayed on the screen.  Photo by Prada
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  We're not sure what part of the country this was seen in, but some hospital somewhere has #2600 as the extension to call when something like this happens.  We can only hope that people don't try and hop onto the #2600 IRC channel looking for help.  They may find themselves on the floor for a long time.  Thanks to Chris for sending this one in.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  We knew it would only be a matter of time before somebody tracked down a Bissell 2600 carpet sweeper.  Apparently, they're rather highly regarded in the world of dust and dirt removal, and now the hacker community can also recognize its eliteness.  Discovered by Will (a.k.a. Master of Telxons) in a second hand shop.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2013)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: How the Boston Marathon bombings are being exploited in order to decrease our privacy in public settings with more surveillance cameras to "fight crime."
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones in Trouble
    • Colombia  Seen in Barranquilla, handsets of these phones often get stolen by enterprising "carreteros" - guys with burro-drawn carts who trade in a variety of things.  They then use the mouthpiece as a microphone to announce themselves as they drive the streets looking for customers.  Photo by Colter McCorkindale
    • United States  What appears to be remnants of a Terminator movie can be found in the 4th Avenue/9th Street subway station in Brooklyn.  How payphones ever managed to survive in the bowels of the New York City transit system in the first place is beyond us.  Photo by Alex
    • Thailand  While it may be bright, cheery, and colorful, this payphone has one fatal flaw.  See if you can discover what it is.  Spotted at the Surat Thani ferry terminal.  Photo by TProphet
    • United States  This about says it all.  The ghost of this St. Louis payphone tells the typical story of nonstop abuse - dents from every conceivable angle, a damaged sign, a coating of rust, not to mention the missing phone.  Photo by Todd Smith
  • Back Inside  Reclaimed Payphones
    • Thailand  Lately there seems to be a growing phenomenon of nature stepping in and taking back payphones.  We see the forest moving in on this one, found outside the Renaissance Hotel on Ko Samui island.  Photo by Mike S
    • Greece  Here it looks like the Earth itself is about to swallow this poor phone.  If it weren't for the tree, it would certainly be horizontal.  Yet it still works.  Seen on the island of Crete in the village of Almyrida.  Photo by Chaz
    • United States  The forest was very aggressive at the Hoh Rainforest in Washington State, where this structure looks like a part of nature itself.  The actual phone apparently blended in so well that it can't even be seen anymore.  Photo by Connor Dunning
    • Austria  Winter has taken this payphone (we assume there's one in there) at the Lackenhof ski resort in Ötscher.  The sign translates to "This telephone can save lives.  Don't destroy it!"  There are very few of these phones (and signs) left.  Photo by Richard Hanisch
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Here's an interesting fact, discovered by sail0r: If you buy a copy of 2600 (or anything else, we presume) at this local Micro Center and pay cash, your name shows up on the receipt as "B Hacker."  (When making a purchase with a credit card, the cardholder name shows up.)  Perhaps the thought is that only a hacker would be smart enough to use cash - or maybe something somehow got hacked and this is the signature.  Regardless, we suspect a lot of people will be buying 2600 with cash at Micro Centers just to see what happens.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  While out cycling, Rob Purvis found this neat little sign in the village of Newton Poppleford in East Devon, England.  It's clearly an informational statement which says that hackers are always in the vicinity.  Depending on one's outlook, this will either prove comforting or troubling.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn 2013)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The fascists who Evil Corley, Dave Buchwald, Greg Newby, Mitch Altman, Edward Cummings, Adam Prato, Babu Mengelepouti, Alexander Urbelis, etc. supported and voted for are now abusing their powers to spy on the rest of us.  Change!
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  • Cover Inside  Awkwardly Sized Payphones
    • Russia  Found at the Tagansky Protected Command Point in Moscow.  It's technically not a payphone and the site is technically no longer a secret military complex, but a harmless museum.  The weird-sized phone still scares us, though.  Photo by Ashes
    • Azerbaijan  Located in the Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, this phone and its instruction plate have an awful lot of white space surrounding them, making them stand out even more than the presence of a payphone normally would.  Photo by J.P.
    • China  It seems like this booth was constructed for a somewhat larger model of phone than the current resident, found in the ancient canal-networked town of Tongli.  Photo by Joy Lockhart
    • Malawi  Found on the grounds of Ekwendeni Hospital in Ekwendeni, this fairly modern phone also doesn't seem to match its home.  Photo by Kevin
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • France  Spotted at the Cannes International Film Festival earlier this year.  Note the "film" that the phone is mounted on.  Photo by T-RAY
    • South Korea  Seen in the Gimpo Internartional Airport in Seoul, these are two rather old models, taking all combinations of coins and cards between them.  Photo by bitcoin vendor
    • United States  Nobody is too surprised at a sight like this in Buffalo, New York.  And we wouldn't be at all surprised if these phones were still operational.  Photo by Vince Harzewski
    • Bahamas  Believe it or not, this phone in Mangrove Cay on Andros Island actually works.  But you'd have to have an unusually shaped head to take advantage of it.  Photo by Robin Blanc
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Occasionally, moments like this just happen and lately we've been getting more and more of them.  In this case, Gene (laserdemon) noticed his four-year-old daughter parading around the house with one of our issues while counting out loud.  This verifies a longstanding theory of ours that we do in fact sometimes act as an educational tool.  What's really amazing here is the number of kids in a single photo of our magazine.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  And on the other end of the spectrum, we see the symbolic death of a hacker - and the unsymbolic death of someone with the actual last name of "Hacker" as seen by L. Motz, who witnessed this at Westview Mausoleum in Atlanta, Georgia.  This kind of thing also happens now and then.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2013-2014)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Do we allow so much that we value and that we've fought for over decades, even centuries, to be dismantled out of apathy, fear, or convenience?  Or do we take a stand and fight back, knowing that any time we do such a thing, there are risks of one sort or another involved?
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  • Cover Inside  Terminated Payphones
    • France  A rather unfortunate reality captured here in Paris, as a bunch of phones, complete with the booths they were housed in, are taken away to be... retired.  Photo by Nicolas RUFF
    • United States  And this is how it turns out for many of these unfortunate phones, destined to rot in a scrap heap with piles of junk, as seen in Culver City, California.  Photo by jeff oconnell
    • Nicaragua  In other parts of the world, however, abandoned phones are left to die in peace.  This way, they're always there as a reminder and a curiosity for future generations.  This one was found in El Bluff.  Photo by Aaron Cotton
    • Germany  And then there are those places that turn tragedy into something positive, such as here in Lübeck.  It seems there was a fire at a local pizza place in the 1970s and they decided to keep the phone in its "altered state" after reopening.  Photo by Craig Damlo
  • Back Inside  Payphone of the World
    • Croatia  This phone is completely operational, and it can be found on the ferry from the city of Split to the island of Vis.  The phone carries the initials of a now defunct company (Hrvatska Pošta i Telekomunikacije), which hasn't existed since the 1990s.  Photo by Bojan Paduh
    • Australia  A truly remote phone, found in a place called Winning Pool on the North West Coastal Highway around 150 miles from any people.  The coin mechanism has been completely removed, ostensibly to save the phone company the 300 mile trip to empty it.  Photo by Astrant Photographic
    • Barbados  Seen in Bridgetown, this phone carries the familiar logo of parent company Cable & Wireless to the left of the BarTel name, a very familiar sight throughout the Caribbean.  Photo by Kristyn Rose
    • Uganda  Spotted in Mukono, this phone is operated by Mobile Telephone Networks, a company based in South Africa that has expanded its operations to over 20 countries in Africa and the Middle East.  Photo by TC Johnson
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  So momentumdave was going through some old papers concerning his adoption and discovered that he was worth exactly $2600 at the time.  How cool is that?  Incidentally, we can't help but wonder if the actual infant was the attachment referred to in "Average Cost per Infant (attached)."
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Now this is something we find ourselves wanting more than anything - a true hacker radio, as discovered by sarx in Scotland.  Had this company only stayed in business another 30 years or so, this would have been the perfect gift for Off The Hook listeners.
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Volume 31

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2014)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow: Celebrating 30 years of sellin other people's BBS files.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Artistic Payphones
    • Thailand  This isn't the first Thai phone we've printed that appears to be heading back to nature.  This one was spotted in Sai Yok, near the Death Railway (don't ask).  Photo by Kimmo
    • United States  Seen on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, they call this a punk rock payphone and it's easy to see why.  In fact, we wouldn't be surprised if this one went on tour in the 1980s.  Photo by Glenn Griffin
    • Canada  Montreal is apparently known, not only for its plethora of payphones that people actually still use, but for occasional artistic payphone expressions.  Photo by Jonathan Mertzig
    • China  Meanwhile, over in Shenzhen, the artistic look is a bit... minimal.  In fact, the inside of this booth would make a pretty convincing prison cell.  Photo by DrSm0ke
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • Czech Republic  This is a fairly basic model found in Prague.  It's definitely seen a good amount of use but looks like it can handle quite a bit more.  Photo by Matt Anderson
    • Mexico  Found in an underground washroom hall in Playa del Carmen, this phone clearly benefits from spending all of its time indoors.  Photo by Jorge
    • Peru  This is a name we should all become familiar with.  A subsidiary of América Móvil, a Mexican company, Claro Americas can be found in just about every Central and South American country, plus the Caribbean.  Certainly among the most cheerful looking phones out there.  Photo by Leonel H. Ramos Chang
    • Ecuador  A decidedly less cheerful model, but Claro is still the lead operator in this country with almost nine million subscribers.  América Móvil ran the company when it was known as Porta, but switched the name to Claro, which translates to "bright" or "clear" in Spanish.  Photo by TProphet
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  On the web, "404" and "missing" are pretty much synonymous, which means anyone halfway familiar with the net will be reading this sign as "Missing Hair Design" every time they walk past this place in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Discovered by sarx, this is probably not the best marketing strategy for this establishment, even if it happens to be their address.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Reader Steve found a rather weird fact while Googling Bluffdale, Utah.  It seems the massive NSA data center over there just so happens to have a road named "2600" heading straight to it.  We have to assume this is a coded invitation.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 31, Number 2 (Summer 2014)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Edward Snowden's revealing of NSA mass surveillance operations.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of the World
    • Mexico  This phone clearly sees itself as the center of the universe.  Found in the Zona Rosa district of Mexico City, there's even a warning that you're being spied upon.  Photo by TProphet
    • Ethiopia  We're not exactly sure what the fate of these phone booths in Addis Ababa is, but there is a certain irony in their being closed off by telephone cord.  Photo by Jon P
    • Sri Lanka  The goal is to have more than 40,000 of these CDMA-based public payphone booths throughout the country, aimed at low-income rural communities.  They're far cheaper than landlines or mobile devices.  Photo by Matt
    • United States  Found in the Pioneer Square district of Seattle, literally underground.  You see, the sidewalks used to be 20 feet lower and they were condemned altogether in 1907, but soon found a home for various illegal activities.  Perhaps even phone phreaking.  Photo by Ryan Reggio
  • Back Inside  Middle Eastern Payphones
    • Oman  Seen in Muscat along with a thorough list of times where your phone conversation won't be disturbed by the sound of platform trucks.  Photo by secuid0
    • United Arab Emirates  This model was seen in Dubai and is operated by Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, commonly known as "du."  Photo by secuid0
    • Saudia Arabia  This was spotted at the airport in Jeddah.  Despite its pristine condition, no sequence of button presses or twiddling on/off-hook yielded a display or dial tone.  Photo by Estragon
    • Israel  We've never seen such a well camouflaged phone.  There may not be much practical purpose in hiding a payphone, but it sure does look nice.  Found in Jaffa.  Photo by David Mizrahi
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Well, isn't this a surprise!  Here's an image from the donation section of Senator John Cornyn's website, as found by RykVR.  In addition to proudly proclaiming himself the second most conservative senator in the country, he apparently has fond eyes for hackers.  Why else would he use that number instead of something more standard, like $2500?
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Continuing with our political theme, did you know that there's a politician in Germany with the actual name of German Hacker?  Turns out he's the mayor of Herzogenaurach (and popular, too)!  We know many German hackers, but this is a first.  Thanks to Casandro for this one.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 31, Number 3 (Autumn 2014)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The Source Interlink debacle / HOPE X
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Selected Blue Payphones
    • Slovenia  From the Alpine town of Bled comes our first blue phone: a stark and futuristic looking model.  Photo by Booth Lover
    • Russia  Seen in Moscow, this bright blue is more like something you might see in Argentina.  Times have changed.  Photo by Anastasios Monachos
    • Panama  Another sturdy model from Cable & Wireless.  This one looks like it's weathered a few storms in its time.  While this phone company is found all throughout Central America and in the Caribbean, blue isn't usually their color.  Photo by Christopher Curzio
    • France  O.K., technically this thing isn't really a payphone, nor is it actually part of the public phone network.  It's one of those ancient internal train network phones that you can find all over the world.  This one was in an old train station in Pourcieux.  It's rare that they're blue, however.  Photo by M. Miller
  • Back Inside  Wide Ranging Payphones
    • Croatia  This bright and cheery phone is located just outside the bus station in Split.  It is from provider T-Com and comes complete with dialing instructions and rates for some two dozen countries.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • United Arab Emirates  This was taken on the beachside boardwalk in Abu Dhabi.  If you look really closely, you can see the Arabic and English numerals on the keypad.  Photo by Casey Borders
    • Cuba  We've printed pictures of payphones from Trinidad before, but never from the one inside this country.  Yes, there's a Trinidad in Cuba and their payphones seem to be in great shape.  Photo by Ian Morse
    • United Kingdom  Then there are true mysteries, such as how anyone is able to even get to this payphone in Osmington Mills.  It doesn't accept coins, which means the phone company never has to cut through the underbrush to collect money.  Photo by Sparky Lou
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  This was bound to happen eventually.  With all of the CAPTCHA challenges that are out there, it was time for our number to come up, as it literally did with this download (ROMs for Asteroids Deluxe (rev 2) for the Atari emulator) that Alek Koss was in the middle of obtaining.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  This terrific building was found by Shawn Boyko while driving past it in Cincinnati.  It was actually a fire station until 1976 and now is used for offices.  We think it would be a great clubhouse.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 31, Number 4 (Winter 2014-2015)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow: We are at a pivotal point in history where we have an abundance of access to technology.
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  • Cover Inside  Classy Payphone Booths
    • Austria  Seen on Danube Island in Vienna, this classic booth is as sturdy as you could hope for but rarely used, judging from the spider webs found inside.  (But the phone works!)  Photo by Richard Hanisch
    • Greece  While showing obvious signs of wear, this booth seems to be in it for the long haul.  Found in Corfu near the old town square.  The phone itself was in pretty good shape.  Photo by Brother Franklin
    • Peru  There's something really classy about this fixture bolted into the stone on what looks like a really old street in Cusco.  Not much of a booth, but the protection is implied.  Photo by Mark
    • Ukraine  A quaint scene from Pripyat, where you'll soon discover it's rather difficult to find a phone or even a person due to the aftereffects of Chernobyl.  The city was only 16 years old when it was abandoned.  Photo by Ashes
  • Back Inside  More Foreign Payphones
    • Malaysia #1  In addition to the stunning view, these payphones on Mount Kinabalu happen to be 3.668 kilometers above sea level (a fact noted on signs inside the booths), making them the highest known payphones.  Photo by Bryan Rhodes
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    • Switzerland  This phone is above Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland area in a cable car station at the summit of First.  Now you know exactly how to find it.  Photo by Marcus
    • Portugal  This old school phone, seen in Vilamoura, is the basic coin model that has been tagged and stickered by many as a traditional sign of respect.  Photo by Robert Noack
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Now here is a building worthy of bearing our name.  Spotted by Gonadvs Maximvs in Berkeley, California, this mighty complex looks down over the entire neighborhood.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  We've actually gotten a bunch of pictures of this locomotive recently, but we liked the one from Jay Thomas the best.  The train is run by Roaring Camp Railroad and runs between Felton and Santa Cruz, California.  As you can see, it doesn't move too fast.
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Volume 32

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2015)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Sony blaming the attack on their systems on "an army of hackers from North Korea."
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Island Payphones
    • Taiwan  Seen in the Maokong District of Tapei, this payphone, like all in this city, is also a free Wi-Fi hotspot.  Photo by Matt Ranostay
    • Tahiti  It may look like a painting, but we can assure you this phone is very real and functional.  Photo by nfltr8
    • Japan  This phone was found on the country's largest island of Honshu on the road side of Nagano Prefecture and it's still in pristine condition.  Photo by RayD
    • Fiji  Discovered on Taveuni Island, this phone looks like it's prepared to attack anyone who offends it in any way.  Photo by Daniel Eather
  • Back Inside  Free Payphones
    • France  This free phone was found at the bottom of Mont Saléve.  It looks as if its dialing options are a bit limited.  Photo by Jonathan Dumont
    • Austria  Ski resorts are apparently a popular spot for free phones.  This one in Nassfeld is programmed to dial a local taxi.  However, it can be defeated with Touch-Tones through the mouthpiece.  Photo by Richard Hanisch
    • United States  Now this is a great service (free local calls) offered at this payphone in Rosburg, Washington by this friendly rural phone company.  Photo by ZombieRaccoon
    • Switzerland  Technically, this is a free payphone, since you can make calls without paying, but you would really be annoying the people who run the backpacker hotel it's a part of.  Photo by Nicolas RUFF
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Yet another proud-looking building worthy of bearing our name.  Seen by Nodechomsky in Memphis, Tennessee, this was apparently taken on one of the rare days that our pirate flag wasn't flying.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  This image has been sent to us a number of times over the years, so we've finally decided to print it.  As noted by Johannes Grenzfurthner, this was Hitler's plane, as captured in the 1935 propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2015)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow: The fusion of "old and new" technology
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  • Cover Inside  Payphones of North, Central, and South America
  • Back Inside  International Payphones
    • Lithuania  Seen in the capital Vilnius, this spanking clean blue box is ready for action.  We wonder how much it gets.  Photo by John Klacsmann
    • Austria  Like most things in Vienna, this payphone is all about style.  Note the colorful buttons and how they contrast with the more subdued and older tones surrounding them.  Photo by John Klacsmann
    • United Arab Emirates  This payphone was found in the Gold Souk of old Dubai, where everything glitters of gold.  Strangely, it seems to be made of only base metals and plastic.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • South Korea  This old school payphone (and equally old school booth) can be found at the 38th parallel at the DMZ border with North Korea.  Photo by Bruce Robin
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  There's just so much here.  A typewriter repair shop in this day and age?  And they sell them too?  An ultra-elite address of "1337" to boot?  This was found in Lansdale, Pennsylvania by a reader who prefers to remain anonymous.  We hope the business doesn't mind a little publicity, however, and that this form of really old technology keeps them going.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  So apparently the air freshener Glade has exactly 2600 uses, but they only tell you this if you're watching television in Argentina, as our reader Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman was.  Could they have picked a more difficult-to-read font for our name?
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 32, Number 3 (Autumn 2015)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow: If there is one theme that we seem to have been locked into from the very beginning, it's that of preserving, correcting, and maintaining the image of hackers.
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  • Cover Inside  European Payphones
    • Croatia  A standard phone booth found in the small car-less village of Valun on the island of Cres.  Photo by Mandrappa Kurelek
    • Luxembourg  Found in the mountainous village of Vianden, this phone booth looks like it's attached to a mountain.  Photo by Mikel Shilling
    • Poland  Yet another small town booth found in Krynica.  It's wheelchair accessible with no door, a ramp, and handlebars inside.  A sticker says "Telefon Dwukierunkowy," which means "two-way phone" (you can make and receive calls here).  Photo by Dariusz Dziewialtowski-Gintowt
    • Greece  Yes, you guessed it - another small village with a payphone.  This one is Plakias on the island of Crete, right by the water.  There's some kind of connection between old, scenic villages and working payphones.  Photo by Mandrappa Kurelek
  • Back Inside  Spanish Speaking Payphones
    • Mexico  Found in Puerto Palomas in the state of Chihuahua, this phone clearly has its share of traffic and is in pretty good shape.  Photo by Fred Atkinson
    • Mexico  This colorful Wi-Fi phone was spotted in Mérida in the state of Yucatán and doesn't appear at all worse for wear.  Photo by carlos duarte
    • Cuba  An ETECSA (Cuban government's telecommunications enterprise) payphone seen in Havana.  It doesn't appear to take coins.  Photo by Lee317
    • Spain  Another pristine payphone model found in Rota in the southern region of Andalusia.  Photo by Fred Atkinson
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Now this is the kind of joint we all should stay in at least once.  Hell, maybe we could even have a convention here!  The person who submitted this gave us absolutely no details on its location (thanks for that), but since they sent it from their phone, with a little detective work we figured out it was in Chicago.  We can feel this place calling to us.  Tripadvisor raves "WORST hotel ever" and "Horrible and Disgusting," but we believe those are just clever ploys to try and keep us away.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Seen in Brighton, Michigan by Gary Rimar, this intersection is particularly great because it leaves out the word "Road" on each sign, making it possible for all sorts of jokes and allusions to work.  We'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 32, Number 4 (Winter 2015-2016)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow:
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Worldly Payphones
    • Italy  Seen on the island of Capri, this is a standard Italian phone, usually not spotted in such elaborate housing.  Photo by Paul
    • Australia  This brightly colored phone was found on Fraser Island, where humans have lived for over 5000 years.  Clearly, they've learned how to keep their phones clean.  Photo by SirBif
    • Peru  This model, discovered in Cusco, is about as old school as you can get.  The shoelace around the handset to keep it from hitting the ground is an especially nice touch.  Photo by Jessica Otte
    • Brazil  This phone, believe it or not, is in a very nice part of São Paulo.  Even more unbelievable is the fact that it still works.  Photo by Renato Leon Bourdonv
  • Back Inside  Payphones From All Over
    • Malaysia  Found in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, this payphone apparently once brought bad news to somebody who didn't take it very well.  Photo by Charlotte White
    • Morocco  Two phones in Marrakech - a standard no-nonsense coin-accepting payphone and a curvy stylish model that only takes cards.  Photo by Howard Feldman
    • Israel  Seen inside the Old City of Jerusalem with the Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in the background.  It doesn't get more peaceful than this.  Photo by Bavs
    • Turkey  Where thoughts naturally turn to dolphins.  Seen in Istanbul, but apparently they exist all over the country as we've gotten multiple submissions of these things.  Photo by Peter Vibert
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    • Back Cover Photo #1  Only in Japan would you be able to find food containers that are somehow related to UNIX.  There's so much potential here.  Thanks to Randy Frank for sending this in, as well as for placing this on top of a very special television set in order to make this shot even more memorable.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  This may just be the coolest street in all of San Antonio, Texas, as discovered by Abel Lopez.  Let's hope its residents realize just how lucky they are.
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Volume 33

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2016)

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  • Issue's Cash Cow: The dangers of Apple being asked to bypass their OWN security by the FBI.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Global Payphones
    • Italy  We don't often see banks of payphones anymore, but this one found in an alley in Venice is well worth remembering.  Photo by Michael Wagner
    • Israel  Looks like we spoke too soon.  This bank of phones, found in Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station, is even bigger.  Photo by Nily Harel
    • France  Seen at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, this model comes complete with an incoming phone number!  Photo by SuperD
    • Turkey  Discovered in the backstreets of a cool neighborhood in Istanbul, this phone (and certainly the booth) looks like it's been through a great deal over the years.  Photo by J.D.
  • Back Inside  Payphones of North & South America
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  A note to readers: when your car hits that magical 2600 mark, please take the time to slow to a stop before snapping a picture for us, especially during rush hour.  At least Robert Ludvik was listening to Radio Študent in Slovenia, one of our favorites.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  When Mr. Robot showed our website in a flashback last year, they did a really good job making it appear as authentic as possible, complete with a 1990s Netscape screen grab.  Here's the code from our page that protagonist Elliot grabbed and modified as a kid.  We trust his interest in Atari 2600s was a coincidence - or a joke.  Thanks to SM for capturing this.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 33, Number 2 (Summer 2016)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Evil Corley is having a complete mental breakdown because there are still politicians who wish to put the citizens and country FIRST, and not the One Percent, the World Economic Forum, or (((globalism))).
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Asian Payphones with Screens
    • China  Your typical Chinese payphone with a tiny screen, seen in Shenzhen.  Photo by Mateen Greenway
    • South Korea  A phone found in Seoul that takes cards and coins while proudly displaying the time.  Photo by Daniel Rudov
    • Thailand  On display in Bangkok, this model wins the prize for best color coordination from its green screen to its bright casing to its dark and serious receiver.  Photo by 3ricj
    • Azerbaijan  Some say it's Asia, some say it's Europe.  But this phone in Baku unites the region with its strangely comforting appearance.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
  • Back Inside  Global Payphones (also with screens)
    • Mexico  Seen in Aguascalientes, this phone really does look good in red.  Photo by tonyskapunk
    • Argentina  One of the "wide screen models," this one from Buenos Aires.  Photo by 3ricj
    • England  This is a model known as the Contour 400 and it's in a somewhat sorry state in Devon.  The humble screen is overshadowed by the devastation.  Photo by Rob Purvis
    • Bulgaria  From Sofia, this squat little phone has one of the aforementioned wide screens and not much else.  Photo by IFo Hancroft
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 33, Number 3 (Autumn 2016)

  • Promises  - Editorial

  • Hacking for Knowledge  - Overview of the author's "Phoenix Project II" which involves installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a surplus SuperMicro rack server, by Jerry

  • MOV Before You JMP  - Why one must learn proper assembly code languages if they wish to write (and understand) exploits, by Vuk Ivanovic

  • It's Security, Stupid  - Hypocritical idiots who talk about Internet "freedom," "security," and "rights" - while shutting down websites (and Twitter accounts) they don't like - just like the little fascists they are, by Mallory Knodel, Sacha van Geffen, Stefania Milan, and Camille Francois

  • Freedom of Thought  - Everyone has the capacity of freedom of thought and those thoughts will keep you free and true and they cannot be taken away from you, by Daelphinux

  • Telecom Informer  - Verizon's hesitancy to repair and replace copper outside plant after hurricanes and switch the customers to "wireless landline" systems - and the problems this caused for legacy systems like faxes/modems, alarm monitoring, 911, etc., by The Prophet

  • A Captive Portal Puzzle at Sea  - Overview of some of the tools (Hans) and techniques (Tor/tunnels/proxies) for bypassing wireless network captive portals while on a cruise ship, by IceQUICK

  • Spyware Techniques  - This article explores the concepts and principles of spyware creation.  Various techniques are given for both capturing data and for ensuring the spyware behaves in a manner least likely to be noticed, by Dr. Chuck Easttom  (William C. Easttom, II, Email #1, Email #2)

  • Building DIY Community Mesh Networks  - Overview of the tools needed to build community wireless networks which can be independent of government rules, by Mike Dank  (Philadelphia, PA, Email, Mastodon)

  • Musical Monstrosities  - Overview of the art of "circuit bending" - hacking musical toys to change their audio output or control, by Dent (Email #2)

  • Hacker Perspective  - by Scott Everard

  • The PirateBox  - Overview of a Raspberry Pi-based PirateBox, which is an anonymous way for people to communicate or exchange files, by SideFx

  • How to Google Bomb Someone; or, Rick Santorum's Sticky Situation  - Overview of "Google bombing," which is a technique to force certain websites to the top of the search results, mostly for the lulz, by Garrett Mickley  (Email)

  • Letters  - Synergy
    • Offerings  - Samy, Joanne Shields, Kristyn, The Characters Didn't Come Through
    • Meeting Updates  - Jack (New Jersey), Aidan (England), asciib17 (Austin, TX), London Longenecker (Harrisburg, PA)
    • Getting Involved  - CH, Johnny Martyr, C, J, Mike, S, Eric, Pic0o, W (Connecticut), Alex W., RAMGarden
    • Curiosity  - tnx, Mike, John
    • New Stuff  - Pawe Krzaczkowski (Poland), Scooby Doo, david0509, Chad, Brainwaste
    • Corporate Fallout  - Kevin, Aldo Daniele Dominici, Big Guy 1000
    • Following Up  - GI motherf*cking Jack, D1vr0c, Henri, Squeeling Sheep, M, PG, NHM
    • Political Intrigue  - pink
    • The Eleventh HOPE  - The Eleventh HOPE Writer #1, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #2, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #3, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #4, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #5, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #6, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #7, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #8, The Eleventh HOPE Writer #9

  • Verizon's HOPE Scam  - The problems of getting a traditional landline installed for the HOPE conference and being forced to pay for an entire month for three days of service, and a surprise $50 "shortfall" billing for not using their long distance service enough.  All-in-all, a $70 phone bill for a single one minute call to Connecticut!

  • The Easiest Way to Break Into a Bank  - Apparently, everyone at TD Bank has a default password of the last 6-digits of your check card number, or even "123abc", by Anne

  • Hacking Amazon E-Books with Spy Style  - Gives you the opportunity to use your Kindle content as you like and how to save any ebooks you may already have, by bartitsu59  (France)

  • EFFecting Digital Freedom  - Copyright is not a trump card, by Elliot Harmon

  • A Parallel President on Twitter  - Story of creating a "mirror" Twitter account of Argentina's president to allow their citizens to reply to the president's tweets without be blocked or censored, by Richard Vardit

  • Hacker Happenings

  • 2600 Marketplace

  • 2600 Meetings


  $2600 Magazine - Volume 33, Number 4 (Winter 2016-2017)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Spending too much time on social media and not meeting/listening to people in real life. / Anti-Trump lies, propaganda, and disinformation.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of Europe
    • Russia  This ancient relic was spotted in Kostroma and has clearly seen a lot of history.  It may not be sleek but it's certainly rugged.  Photo by Steve A
    • Armenia  Seen in Yerevan, this phone is certainly sleek but perhaps not so rugged.  It's operated by the Russian company Beeline.  Photo by Simon Powell
    • Romania  Incredibly similar to the Armenian phone, this was discovered at the airport in Sibiu and is operated by Romtelecom.  Photo by Kevin W.
    • England  Found in Blackpool, this is a particularly well lit booth.  It seems to have a decent color scheme going, which gives it a unique style.  Best visited at night.  Photo by RykVR
  • Back Inside  International Payphones
    • United Arab Emirates  The kind of phone you'd expect to see in an airport terminal in Dubai.  As well as on page 2 of this issue.  Photo by AM (secuid0)
    • Canada  In Scarborough, Ontario, you can actually find a phone booth that has a tree growing in it!  Or at least you could.  We're told the phone has since been decommissioned and removed.  Photo by David McLeod
    • Japan  We can't tell you what city this phone and accompanying phone card vending machine were spotted in.  That's because the green pair pass through cities at 200 mph on the Shinkansen high-speed train line.  Photo by Cobolt
    • Thailand  Another phone booth with vegetation and a good amount of color.  Found in the Watthana district of Bangkok.  Photo by Robert Wood
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Many of us have seen this particular New York City subway car - in fact, it even made it to one of our covers back in 2005 - and this is a shot from the inside, captured by Robby R.O.B.B.  For those who want to find the "2600" car, wait around on the "D" line and it should eventually show up.  (Please don't pull the cord.)
    • Back Cover Photo #2  A really interesting story is connected with this cardboard box.  David Graper tells us that Troy Typewriter in upstate New York was one of the few remaining typewriter repair stores left in existence.  The guy who ran the place had a longtime reputation as a true hacker who respected the old technology and somehow managed to keep machines of all types running without proper access to parts or supplies, always having time to answer technical questions.  When he finally went out of business in 2016, this very specially named box was the last one to leave the shop.
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Volume 34

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2017)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Anti-Trump lies and propaganda.  Evil Corley wants to pay $10,000 for Trump's tax returns, but not those of Joe & Hunter Biden showing their shady business connections to Ukraine and China...  Hmm...
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Central and South America Payphones
    • Peru  Yes, in this country you can apparently just stick a payphone onto a tree if that works for you.  This one was seen in Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.  Photo by Victoria Dietz
    • Peru  A bit more of a traditional approach found in Iquitos.  Telefónica is a Spanish company that operates throughout South America.  Photo by Andova Begarin
    • Colombia  Located in Chía, we're impressed with the combination cord and chain that keeps the receiver from wandering.  Photo by Dallas Luce
    • Mexico  This phone was found in the mountains over Puerto Vallarta.  It only works for local calls and the cost on the receiver says $3 unlimited, meaning three pesos (around 15 American cents).  hoto by Dwayne Jenkins
  • Back Inside  International Payphones
    • Oman  Found somewhere in the maze of the Souq Muttrah marketplace in Muscat.  This model can be found throughout the city.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Bulgaria  This payphone, seen in Veliko Tarnovo, doesn't know how lucky it is.  That amount of protection for such a tiny phone is unheard of in most parts.  Photo by Brian Collins
    • Spain  This is off the mainland a bit.  Actually discovered in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, this phone seems to have withstood lots of wear and tear.  Run by Telefónica.  Photo by Oscar Sandström
    • Portugal  Again, not actually on the mainland.  This one was found in Furnas in the municipality of Povoação on the island of São Miguel in the Azores.  It also wins the award for the loneliest looking phone in this issue.  Photo by Kevin Costain
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Here's a frame from the 2000 movie Romeo Must Die (spotted by The Guy That Watches Bad Early 00s Films) where protagonist Han Sing (played by Jet Li) is breaking into our apartment with a damn drill.  Please.  He couldn't even bring a lockpick set?  In all likelihood, the reference was intentional since bypassing security is kinda our thing.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Who isn't enthusiastic about the Domain Name System?  We certainly are and so is whoever painted this in the Sachsenhausen neighborhood of Frankfurt, Germany.  Thanks to Sam Pursglove for discovering this.  And if you search online with the above info, you'll find a whole bunch more tags from this artist.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 34, Number 2 (Summer 2017)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Evil Corley actually believes the lies and fake news spread by The New York Times ✡, The Washington Post ✡, and The Guardian ✡ about Mr. Trump.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones from Around the World
    • Honduras  This well-protected and stylish model is a government-owned Hondutel phone that was spotted in Santa Rosa de Copán.  Photo by Edwin
    • Cuba  This rather nondescript model was attached to the outside of a building about a block from Ernest Hemingway's old home in Havana.  Photo by Bruce Robin
    • Costa Rica  Seen in Zarcero, this phone used to take coins, but the coin mechanism has been disabled and now it only takes cards.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Portugal  Found standing all alone on a street near the pier in Calheta, São Jorge Island, Azores.  Photo by Anthony Cunha
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the East
    • Australia  This is one of only two payphones on Lord Howe Island.  This one was near Joy's General Store and it even comes with a chair.  (The other payphone is at the airport.)  Photo by Greg Sherman
    • Taiwan  Spotted at Taoyuan Airport near Taipei, this phone seems way bigger than it needs to be.  We're surprised someone hasn't stuck a big ad on all that empty space.  Photo by Justin Davis
    • Thailand  A true work of art, this Bangkok payphone uses colors with amazing style.  This phone seems to be torn between looking futuristic and ancient.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Thailand  Another aesthetically pleasing model, this one found in Phuket.  The colors offset themselves perfectly, making it possible to admire while completely missing the fact that it has no handset.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  A little known fact: all FTP transfers go through this building near the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.  At least we assume that's the case - it would explain most of the bottlenecks we experience.  Discovered by SC.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  This must be the building that housed the very first website back in 1924, another little known fact that you'll only find on our back cover.  Thanks to Barry von Tobel for findng this piece of history in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 34, Number 3 (Autumn 2017)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Shutting down any speech or websites which targets the Evil Corley and the One Percent is O.K. / Spreading disinformation and fake news about the Charlottesville "Unit the Right" rally.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Blue Payphones
    • Lithuania  Near the Baltic Sea on a walking trail, but these blue things are found all over Palanga.  Photo by Elvis Sakalauskas
    • Eritrea  In a part of the world where payphones are still heavily used, this blue model from EriTel looks brand new.  Photo by whotopia
    • Belize  This is cheating since the only reason this phone is blue is because somebody threw blue paint on it.  Other than that, this is a perfectly normal Belizean payphone.  Photo by hevnsnt
    • Greece  Found near Athens, this blue model is fairly typical, as is the graffiti that tends to show up on it.  Photo by Andi Hudson
  • Back Inside  International Payphones
    • Thailand  Found outside the police station on the main road in Chiang Mai near the city zoo.  Photo by James Schumacher
    • Scotland  This BT payphone was found in Brig o'Turk and is clearly getting a lot of use.  Ironically, there was no GSM service here.  Photo by Tad
    • Turkey  Hidden behind a tree in Istanbul, this little phone takes no coins and may only be known to the graffiti artists and sticker people who stop by.  Photo by Joshua Dellinger
    • Hungary  This payphone from United Telecom Investment in the small town of Herend accepts both Hungarian and Euro coins and still provides a dial tone.  Photo by Richard Hanisch
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Spotted at North 2nd Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota by tom wik, this is one of our absolute favorite buildings bearing our name.  We especially like the collection of stones where anyone else would have put a window.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  If you ever get a chance to take a tour anywhere, always make sure it's a "hacker" tour.  They're so much more fun!  Thanks to Richard Hanisch for sending this one in from Vienna, Austria, who hopefully kept their servers secure while a bus full of hackers was in town.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 34, Number 4 (Winter 2017-2018)

  • Price: $6.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The dangers of large credit bureaus, like Equifax, and their apparent lack of security when protecting our data and privacy.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones Found on Island Nations
    • Cuba  A standard coin-only model found throughout the country.  And no, this one was not in a bathroom.  Tile works everywhere.  Photo by April Wright
    • Saint Martin  Found in Grand Case on the French side of the island (pre-Irma) where Heineken bottles hover magically upside down.  Photo by Nicolas
    • Taiwan  This busy looking metallic model was seen outside the Taipei Zoo subway station.  Payphones here are an increasing rarity.  Photo by Paul Scheidt
    • Japan  Not only is this green phone in pristine condition, but it has a really good view of a major intersection in Osaka.  One could stay here for hours.  Photo by Larry Washburn
  • Back Inside  European Payphones
    • Switzerland  Technically not an actual payphone photo since there's no longer a phone in this booth, but the fact that this is still sitting in the forest near Peccia, in the canton of Ticino, makes it somehow meaningful.  Photo by Daniele Tonell
    • Bosnia  There's a lot to say in Sarajevo and apparently payphone kiosks are the place to do it.  This one has it all: markers, spray paint, stickers... plus a complimentary beverage.  Photo by Andrew Welch
    • Serbia  If you're looking for a trip into David Lynch land, look no further.  This weird-ass model is actually from around 1905 and can be found at the Time Out bar in Bački Petrovac, Vojvodina.  The painting needs no explanation.  Photo by Zoran Jeneckov
    • Denmark  Found in Copenhagen, this phone is still in use on a busy street.  Its very presence somehow seems comforting.  And the stately booth looks like it's been around even longer.  Photo by Thomas Pohlentz
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Holy crap!  This is the most majestic one of our buildings yet!  (They even use our font.)  This is actually a Buddhist bookstore in Colombo, Sri Lanka which is unlike any bookstore we've ever seen.  Thanks to Rohan for discovering this masterpiece.  (By the way, the "2600" has nothing to do with the address.  Apparently, 2011 was the 2600th anniversary of "the enlightenment of the Buddha" - and we missed the whole celebration, which wound up producing buildings like this.)
    • Back Cover Photo #2  We all know that UNIX is powerful, but we never cease to be amazed at all of the places you can find it.  This dual-processor system was discovered by Kenya at Hotel Catalonia La Pedrera in Barcelona, Spain.
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Volume 35

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 35, Number 1 (Spring 2018)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The injustices pushed by Evil Corley and the One Percent are all around us, but it's YOUR fault, not those of rich, out-of-touch New Yorkers who vote for the same (((politicians))) over-and-over again...
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  African and Asian Payphones
    • Morocco  Found outside of an Afriquia gas station in Errachidia, this is the standard type of payphone seen throughout the country, though not many are on the outside of buildings like this one.  Photo by Gabriel Dean
    • Taiwan  This phone was discovered inside the Chung-Shan Building (which can be seen on the back of the 100 New Taiwan Dollar bill and was the venue of the National Assembly) which wasn't open to the public until recently.  Photo by John Skilbeck
    • Saint Helena  Seen in the capital city of Jamestown, this is a fairly basic model with a somehow otherworldly feel to it, much like the country itself.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Indonesia  This apparently long-forgotten phone can be found by the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta.  A real fixer-upper.  Photo by Michael McPhail
  • Back Inside  North & South American Payphones
    • Canada  From the mean streets of Toronto, this wins the award for the hippest-looking phone in this collection.  Photo by David Quick
    • Mexico  Found throughout Mexico, these Telmex models are advertising a special rate of three pesos (around 16 cents) for local calls of unlimited length.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Antigua  This phone is pretty well-used and is operated by Cable & Wireless.  Interestingly, it resides in an old British phone booth.  Photo by B Robin
    • Chile  Discovered in the Las Condes area of Santiago de Chile, this model appears to have the same firmware as 1990s Argentine payphones.  Photo by Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  It's always a good idea to monitor your child's viewing habits and this only proves the point.  Thanks to Shar, whose daughter was engrossed in an episode of Johnny Test (Season 6, Episode 18) where a giant super-computer named the "Enigma-tron 2600" was being used to hack a corporate website in order to get free stuff.  We really couldn't make these things up if we tried.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  We heard rumors about the existence of this bus for ages.  (We already discovered the New York City subway car with our number on it back in 2005.)  This express bus was seen by John Calabrese as it sped by on 23rd Street in Manhattan.  Judging from its destination display, Staten Island is the place to go if you want to see this thing at rest.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2018)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The most dishonest, corrupt, and intolerant people on the planet are telling OTHERS to be more tolerant!
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones Plus / Booths With Beer
    • Portugal  Many say that the age of shoeshining is over.  Many say the same thing about payphones.  So why not combine the two as this entrepreneur in Lisbon is doing?  It's one way to get a chair back into a phone booth.  Photo by Galia Kaplan
    • United States  We actually saw this very phone in our 2017 Hacker Calendar, but now it's apparently gotten the attention of the sun, which makes it so much more than a lowly payphone in Muir Woods National Monument, California.  Photo by Artem Skortseskul
    • Canary Islands  We may need a new page for this theme.  So many phones lately seem to have beverages attached.  This one was found on the island of Tenerife.  (San Miguel Beer is from the Philippines, but has become very popular in this region.)  Photo by Kai Kramhöft
    • Japan  No confusion here.  It's a Japanese phone by a Japanese train with a Japanese beer.  Asahi is clearly the choice of the subway riding payphone user.  Seen at the Higashi-Nakano Station in Tokyo.  Photo by John Klacsmann
  • Back Inside  More Central/South American Payphones
    • Peru  Who needs a booth when you can just fasten a phone directly into the wall?  Found in an alley in Plaza de Armas in Lima where we're told the wild street dogs pick fights with pampered police dogs in Bane masks.  Photo by Count Famicom
    • Costa Rica  Operated by Condicel, this card-only model was found in the city of Liberia by a grocery store.  And now you all know the phone number...  Photo by Steve/Funky49
    • Cuba  Now this is the kind of respect a payphone deserves.  While it seems like something from another planet, just looking at this phone booth makes you feel safe.  It's like being in a cave.  Found in Remedios and operated by ETECSA.  Photo by Sean from Canada
    • Bahamas  Found in the downtown part of Nassau, this scene looks like it could be in Queens, New York.  In fact, someone even scrawled "Queens, NY" on the side of one of the phones!  Operated by BaTelCo, not to be confused with Batelco (look it up).  Photo by Doug Lippert
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  It takes a special kind of skill and often dozens of trips to the store to get your total to add up to this magical number.  But to do this while buying our magazine is something truly worthy of note.  Congrats to Alejandro for unlocking this achievement.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  As a sequel to last issue's picture in this space, we thought this image of New York City's "2600" bus from a different angle would be pretty cool.  Thanks go to Benjamin who shot this from deep inside the former Trump SoHo.  We honestly didn't even know buses had numbers on their roofs!
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 35, Number 3 (Autumn 2018)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Complete and total mental breakdown after a bunch of people wore MAGA hats to The Circle of HOPE conference and had a different option than Evil Corley.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones of Europe
    • England  A lonely and mistreated payphone in the heart of Bristol, hidden behind an 800-year-old church.  At least smoking is restricted.  Photo by Virosa
    • Scotland  Just a reminder that payphones can always be mistreated even worse, especially when they attract the attention of the local sea bird population.  Found in John o' Groats.  Photo by surfpnk
    • Croatia  Here's a well-maintained model discovered in Brela, where the sea birds are much better behaved.  Photo by David Ponevac
    • Croatia  Found in a hotel lobby on Biševo, the furthest inhabited island on the Croatian coast.  Apparently, phone bubbles are a thing.  Photo by bojan paduh
  • Back Inside  Payphones of the World
    • India  Seen in the Russell Market area of Bengaluru, this phone is colorful, retro, and minimalist, all at the same time.  Photo by Colby
    • Thailand  This phone, served by TOT, has an amazing design of dolphins in space, along with an equally amazing backdrop in Korat City.  A true work of art.  Photo by Pacharamon DoRego
    • Kuwait  Discovered at Kuwait International Airport in Farwaniya, where payphones are still quite popular.  It's a bit odd that this one is restricted to local calls.  Photo by Kevin Warner
    • Seychelles  This rugged model was found on Mahé Island and looks like it's able to withstand all sorts of abuse.  Served by a company called Airtel  Photo by AM (secuid0)
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  If you're a web developer, spotting this Dumpster in a medical facility parking lot in Tillamook, Oregon, as Darrell Rossman did, could really brighten your day.  If you're not, read up on Cascading Style Sheets.  (You might also enjoy reminiscing about the Content Scramble System for DVDs, which was the centerpiece of the MPAA lawsuit against us back in 2000.)
    • Back Cover Photo #1  There's a story behind this door.  There has to be.  Dave came across it while walking through Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Apparently, it used to be a strip club and is now vacant, but it sure seems like there's something there being protected.  And we now have a vested interested in finding out what that is.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2018-2019)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: We no longer actually own our technology; we are but an end user.  If we want to remain on the system, we have to follow their rules. / "You'll own nothing.  And you'll be happy."
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Payphones with Coin
    • Russia  Found at the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in St. Petersburg.  This isn't truly a working phone, as it's wired to call another phone in the museum and that's pretty much it.  But it'll still take your coin if that's what you want.  Photo by Christina Dill
    • Peru  This neat little model was simply hung on the wall outside a shop in Cusco.  Someone apparently spent a lot of time trying to get rid of the instructions.  Photo by Matthew Searle
    • Singapore  We don't know exactly what a "multicoin phone" is, but here's one that was discovered in Tampines.  And don't even ask about the Ikea pencils.  Photo by David M.
    • Ukraine  Spotted in Odessa, we suspect this might also be part of a museum collection.  In a sense, we may be looking at the future.  Photo by Jason Lenny
  • Back Inside  Payphones with Cards
    • Italy  This little yellow phone was found at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (yes, that's the actual name) in Rome.  There was no dial tone.  Photo by Matthew H M
    • Ukraine  It looks like this poor card phone has been through Hell, but it somehow seems to have survived in the streets of Odessa.  Photo by Jason Lenny
    • Croatia  Seen in Sabunike, this is about as colorful a model as we could have hoped to find.  It looks like a natural part of the landscape, as all phones should.  Coins are not welcome here.  Photo by Ivan Sabljak
    • China  There's something about the way this phone stares at you that makes you think it knows a lot more than it's letting on.  Spotted in Suzhou, home of the "Leaning Tower of China."  Photo by Sam Pursglove
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Cover Photo #1  Congrats to Jean-Philippe for discovering our secret phreaking center facility in the heart of Quebec City.  It's especially cool that this building is host to something called Telops, complete with a weird looking eye.  We'd probably have lots of fun here.
    • Back Cover Photo #2  Oh hell yeah.  We always heard rumors of a school like this, where hackers are trained at an early age and then sent into the world to be creative and cause all kinds of mayhem.  But this is the first actual sighting of the prophecy, found by Kenneth Hensleyin Mountain Home, Idaho.
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Volume 36

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 36, Number 1 (Spring 2019)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The need to preserve and maintain (digital) history.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Blue Payphones
    • Indonesia  Seen in the city of Solo, this old blue box is sadly no longer in operation.  Photo by Carl Rudnert
    • Peru  A very common model, this one was found in Chiclayo.  While it's not blue itself, it has enough of that color surrounding it to qualify.  Photo by Elias Mirror
    • Uruguay  There's all kinds of blue going on here and it really works in the streets of Montevideo.  Antel, by the way, is the government-owned telecommunications company.  Photo by David Ponevac
    • Greece  Found in the town of Agios Nikolaos on the island of Crete, this little blue model really stands out against the yellow.  And it looks fairly heavily used.  Photo by Tom Pesyna
  • Back Inside  Interesting International Payphones
    • Bulgaria  A common sight in Sofia, and a card-operated phone that looks like it's seen a lot over the years.  Photo by ryoki007
    • Norway  Possibly the northernmost phone booth in the world, seen in Hammerfest.  It's also the only phone booth around.  Photo by Bridget Weller
    • Colombia  A typical street phone in Bogotá, operated by ETB, one of the main telecommunication companies in the country.  Photo by briatych
    • New Zealand  This one wins the prize for the biggest presentation: a pathway, a brilliant shining royal booth, and even some flags in the background.  Seen at Victoria Square in Christchurch  Photo by Declan Maitland
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  We originally thought this sign discovered by JayE in Denver was something clever, perhaps a well-earned complaint about high rents.  In actuality, it turns out to be a marketing campaign by Verizon's Visible brand going on around the country to let people know that "the traditional brick and mortar retail store is no longer required for your mobile needs."  And yet, they're still needed for them to advertise.  How depressing.
    • Back Photo #2  This was seen in the Pacific Place Mall on the north side of Hong Kong Island by Sam Pursglove.  Apparently this women's clothing store is also trying to spawn a Bash shell as a background process.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 36, Number 2 (Summer 2019)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The rediculous arrest and charges of espionage for Julian Assange. / Attacking Trump for exposing corrupt, lying (((media outlets))) - even though that's what hackers do! / How publications like $2600 censor news stories they don't agree with.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Asian Payphones
    • Taiwan  Found inside a laundry in Hualien City, this coin-only phone is one of those truly old school models.  We'd love to know what the red and green lights do.  Photo by Olav Haugan
    • Indonesia  This perplexing phone was seen in the Kuta Beach area on the island of Bali.  There literally seems to be no way to get to this phone, being caged in on both sides and having two separate pillars blocking the front.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Japan  This incredibly lavish booth (with desk space!) was spotted near City Hall in Kyōtango.  You could have a family gathering or host a newscast inside this thing.  Photo by Ted Ellis
    • Thailand  Seen near the Myanmar border in the northern part of the country, this phone has it all: multilingual capability, the option of coins or cards, plus a whole variety of colors.  Photo by Jack Jordan
  • Back Inside  Payphones From All Over
    • Morocco  Spotted in the Old Medina in Fez.  We're not sure what all the writing is about, but it looks like the idea is to discourage any use of this phone.  Photo by Peter Parker
    • Cuba  Speaking of writing on phones, you can't really beat this one, found in La Bodeguito del Medio in downtown Havana.  In fact, it looks like the need for phones has been bypassed entirely, with messages just jotted down instead.  Photo by Bruce
    • Portugal  Located outside Pena Palace and the Moorish Castle in Sintra, it somehow seems to fit right in.  Photo by nxl4
    • China  Outside the Summer Palace in Beijing and fitting in even more.  Photo by Patrik Sahlin
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  This very special diesel locomotive, discovered by Gary See, is part of the Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway which runs from Felton to Santa Cruz.  Apart from the cool number, take a good look at the engineer.
    • Back Photo #2  This magical road was found by Alan Sondheim and exists in West Virginia.  Apparently, the name "Hacker" is quite common in that state, so we expect to see a whole lot more pictures from there in future issues.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 36, Number 3 (Autumn 2019)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Uncertainties in future HOPE conferences as they lose access to Hotel Pennsylvania and Evil Corley doesn't want to use anymore of his rich family's money.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Eurasian Payphones
    • Turkey  No question about it - this is one weird payphone to walk towards in the city of Bodrum.  But if you can get over the initial fear, it looks like the phone itself is more than capable of handling any dialing challenge you throw its way.  Photo by Cem "camelgun" Guna
    • Serbia  Found in the biting cold in the middle of Belgrade, this basic card-only model is operated by Telekom Srbija.  Photo by Flipchan
    • Greece  An indisputably incredible sight to greet anyone who just happens to be looking for a phone.  These four card-only phones (one of which is a different model) were seen around the central Athens area.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Turkey  O.K., something very strange is happening in this country.  These were seen in Istanbul and are a nice companion to the bird model above.  And we understand there are more...  Photo by Jon Pollack
  • Back Inside  Exotic Payphones
    • Seychelles  Spotted in Beau Vallon and operated by Airtel, one of two cellular providers.  Sadly, this phone has been vandalized, is no longer maintained, and doesn't work.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Iceland  This standard model has been around since the 1980s and was found in Tálknafjörður, a town in the northwest of about 250 people.  Photo by Aðalsteinn
    • Malaysia  Here are a couple of completely different and colorful types of payphones living in peace and harmony by the water, encountered on the island of Tioman.  Photo by Wreckage Brother
    • Hong Kong  This phone is under cover, which is how it's stayed in such grea condition.  If you look carefully, you'll see that the old "999" emergency dialing code is still in use from the British colonial days.  Photo by Jon Whitton
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  There's quite a story behind this sign, discovered by Jon Guidry in the Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, Georgia.  We all know a 404 error means a page on the web isn't able to be found.  But this was actually a reference to nearby Atlanta's area code (which used to cover the entire state).  Sadly enough though, since this picture was taken, this branch has closed - meaning it's not able to be found.  And so the irony completes.
    • Back Photo #2  We'll just say it now.  We want this banner.  We'll even wear all the protective equipment it's telling us to whenever we engage in hacking if we can just have it to proudly hang somewhere.  This was found by Wreckage Brother at the Pasar Seni MRT station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  We suspect this wasn't in fact some sort of crude pen-testing operation, but rather a drilling/construction project.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 36, Number 4 (Winter 2019-2020)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: HOPE has a new location at St. John's University.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  nusual Payphones
    • South Korea  We thought this phone had a very unique design.  It looks like someone crammed a cell phone into it, but we're assured that isn't actually the case.  Spotted in Seoul.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Sweden  Found on the island of North Koster (almost certainly the westernmost phone in this country), this is an example of the times changing.  Once purported to house the only landline in the area, this booth is now dedicated to preserving ancient reading devices.  Photo by miggedymax
    • France  Not actually a payphone, but it's definitely unusual.  You've likely never come upon one o these, unless you're a French coal miner.  This was seen at the Hély d'Oissel mine in Gréasque.  Photo by Mike LINUX
    • Canada  Probably the most unusual of the bunch, these were found at Vancouver International Airport.  When was the last time you saw three working phones next to each other that all took coins, cards, and codes?  They even have phone books!  Photo by Estragon
  • Back Inside  Street Phones
    • Indonesia  This phone has clearly seen it all and is well prepared for whatever rugged conditions it has to endure.  Found in Kuta, Bali.  Photo by Jon Whitton
    • Dominican Republic  Of course, some phones don't fare as well on the streets as others.  This one, spotted in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, has lost its voice (and ears) entirely.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Bulgaria  Seen on a street near the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, this basic model also provides an outlet for local street artists to perfect their craft.  Photo by Matt Ranostay
    • Italy  A typical, though increasingly rare, payphone on the street in Florence.  What's a bit ironic here is the placement of a "Stop 5G" sticker for what can only be described as the wrong audience: people who are more likely not to own cell phones.  Photo by Indro Neri
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  We all know what port hacking is about.  Scanning for open ports on computers is as old as the hills, and apparently this school in Sydney, Australia has been teaching it since 1959.  Discovered by simran, this institution also has a motto we can all live by.
    • Back Photo #2  Now here's a somewhat sad and funny tale.  These folks certainly had an elite address at one time, as found by pdoherty in the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn, New York.  What's funny is the faded out lettering which reads "Buy & Activate Over The Net!"  It seems that customers may have taken that advice to heart, making the store itself unnecessary.  And that's what's sad.
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Volume 37

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 37, Number 1 (Spring 2020)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The dangers of the big social media sites today. / "It was supposed to be fun.  The whole idea of social networks was meant to augment our actual lives.  Instead, in far too many cases, it's practically replaced them."
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Hawaiian Payphones
    • Kauai  Found in the Poipu area near a natural feature called Spouting Horn.  If you made a call on this, you'd have to battle the roar of the waves through the lava tubes in order to be heard.  Hawaiian Telcom, now owned by Cincinnati Bell (it's true), used to be part of GTE's non-Bell landline network.  Photo by DarkLight
    • Maui  This poor thing was seen in Lahaina where it apparently was the bearer of bad news for someone.  Operated by WiMacTel, in theory at least.  Photo by _hazy
    • Maui  This is what you'll find at the Maui airport.  Millennium phones like this one used to be run by Nortel, but now WiMacTel is the only operator of them in both the United States and Canada.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Oahu  Found at Honolulu International Airport, this phone shows the collaborative spirit that exists between WiMacTel and Hawaiian Telcom.  And you may even recognize the old GTE Model 120B from the 1980s that's still in use.  (Fun fact: Hawaii has more payphones per capita than any other state.  Photo by Chris Gibson
  • Back Inside  Phones as Art
    • England  This is actually a Thai payphone that somehow wound up in a bar in Oxford as some sort of an art display.  Don't bet on getting a dial tone.  Photo by Toronto Phreak
    • United States  Spotted in Gorman, California (and you can spot it too if you look long enough), this is an example of the camouflage effect of graffiti.  Photo by German Rodriguez
    • Malaysia  This work of art was discovered on the island of Langkawi in the Cenang Beach area.  If only every abandoned kiosk could look this nice.  No dial tone, no receiver, and not even a phone here.  Photo by Sam Pursglov
    • Japan  What makes this particularly artistic is the fact that this is still an actual functioning payphone, complete with rotary dial.  Found in Hachiōji.  And just look at the great condition it's in!  Photo by Larry Washburn
  • Back  2600 and the Club-Mate Bottle - A Transatlantic Saga
    • Back Photo #1  This is the bottle before it was dropped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on December 11, 2018.
    • Back Photo #2  This is the note that was stuffed inside.
    • Back Photo #3  Here is where the bottle was found on February 2, 2020 in the Bay of Littlelure, Shetland by Henry Anderton.  The label had washed off but the glass bottle was otherwise unscathed and the contents completely dry.
    • Back Photo #4  In an unbelievable stroke of synchronicity, Henry is allocating his reward money to the restoration of this local phone booth left behind by British Telecom.  An additional donation is being made by us to The Ocean Cleanup organization in Henry's name.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 37, Number 2 (Summer 2020)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Struggles of publishing during the China COVID-19 pandemic / People who didn't do a single thing to help George Floyd when he was alive, using (and profiting) from his death to further their political goals - and line their wallets.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Mexican Payphones
    • Puerto Vallarta  Who says payphones can't find a use after people no longer seem to want to use them to make calls?  This one somehow wound up on the ground and is doing quite nicely as a table.  Photo by Howard Cherniack
    • Nuevo León  Seen in the Zona Piel district, this phone is clearly treated with more respect than the post it's fastened to.  Photo by CG Brik
    • Guadalajara  This phone is still working and models like it can be found on streets all over.  We're told the prepaid cards are nearly impossible to find, however...  Photo by Francisco Treviño
    • Mexico City  To be fair, this phone is located indoors, which is why it looks even more pristine than the others - although it's still possible it's rarely used.  Photo by Bret Miller
  • Back Inside  Former Payphones
    • England  Found in Settle, North Yorkshire, this former phone booth is now used as a really tiny art gallery.  (The postbox next to it still works.)  Photo by Mark
    • England  This combination was seen in Shenstone, Staffordshire and was sent to us mere days after the previous image.  Of course, it's totally different, as this former booth is being used as a library.  (And the postbox next to it still works.)  Photo by mike
    • United States  This art installation can be found in Point Reyes, California and is entitled "A Happy Heart is a Healthy Life."  It was commissioned by the owner of the pharmacy behind it.  Photo by Peter
    • Canada  While it may no longer be a payphone, at least this is still a phone in Toronto.  We're not sure how much people making distress calls will appreciate the surrounding artwork.  We just hope the phone works.  Photo by Isoterric
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Now how cool is this?  The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. actually has this instrument on display in their archives room, which is usually not open to the public.  Thanks to Rafael Troncoso for spotting this treasure, which apparently is still actively in use.
    • Back Photo #2  Attentive reader sigflup synasloble sent us an update on a picture we printed back in Autumn 2007 of this dive bar in Minneapolis with a magical number.  We're sorry to see what happened to them during this year's chimp-outs.  We're told they were on the corner of 26th Street and 26th Avenue.  R.I.P.
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"Now see my fists?  They're getting ready to f*ck you up."

    --- Comment from Ofc. Manuel Ramos to Kelly Thomas before murdering him.

Remember when that non-White cop murdered the White-man Kelly Thomas, and the (((media))) was silent?

Groyd  Floyd George


"I Can't Breathe"
Will Evil Corley Protest in the Streets?  No?


Avenge Tony Timpa!
Will Evil Corley Protest in the Streets?  No?

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 37, Number 3 (Autumn 2020)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow:  The hacking community is far too often cast as the villain and is constantly blamed whenever things go wrong.  This hurts not only our community, but all of society.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Distant Payphones
    • Austria  Seen in Spitz, this harkens back to the days when huge phone booths existed everywhere.  While the booth may belong to Telekom Austria, the distinctive pink handsets indicate the phones are Magenta Telekom, a relative of T-Mobile.  Photo by David Clark
    • Russia  This distinguished looking model was found in St. Petersburg.  It's proof that presentation is everything.  The green background, colorful charts, phone book, and kiosk (including the font that says "international") make this a destination in itself.  Photo by Pirho
    • Ghana  Interestingly, people here are encouraged to receive phone calls on payphones, as the sign from Ghana Telecom attests.  The phone itself is made by Schlumberger, a French oilfield services company.  Photo by Kelechi
    • Vietnam  Again, people are clearly being encouraged to use this phone to receive calls, a concept that has become somewhat alien in America.  Located in Hanoi, this card reading model looks fairly rugged.  Photo by Peter Kastan
  • Back Inside  Unusual Payphones
    • Kuwait  Definitely not the kind of payphone we're used to seeing.  This model looks incredibly serious with its rather drab coloring and exhaustive list of numbers you might want to call.  Photo by XBS
    • Ecuador  Perhaps it's an optical illusion, but this looks like an incredibly thin phone.  Seen in Cuenca and run by ETAPA, a local company owned and operated by the city.  Photo by Benji Encalada
    • United States  Seen at a community college in Buffalo, New York.  For the record, New York Telephone, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon (all of whose logos appear here) either don't exist or don't operate payphones anymore.  And this kind of phone booth is almost completely nonexistent.  Photo by Camel_Case
    • United States  This payphone met with an unfortunate end, having the bad luck to be located in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park campground, in Boulder Creek, California.  It's remarkable how much of it remained standing after one of the most destructive wildfires in history.  Photo by Josh Goldberg
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Well, this had to happen eventually.  Thanks to Barry Wass for examining the serial numbers on his dollar bills in order to find this magical one.  We intend to start doing this and hopefully build up an impressive collection of $2600-themed money.
    • Back Photo #2  This building cannot be found by many.  But fortunately, Dick Willemse persisted and was able to track it down at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.  The campus is naturally connected to the high-speed backbone of the European Internet and the tall building in the background is filled with servers.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 37, Number 4 (Winter 2020-2021)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow:  Spreading disinformation and lies about the people involved in January 6, 2021 Constitutionally-protected election integrity protests / Regurgitated & debunked anti-Trump propaganda
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Distant Payphones
    • Japan  You certainly don't see a sight like this very often.  Discovered after a snowfall (obviously) in Hokkaido.  Photo by dilanka
    • England  Seen in Goudhurst, this is yet another use for an old phone box where phones are no longer what's needed.  Photo by XCM
    • United States  Believe it or not, this phone in Fredericksburg, Texas is a working model, attached to the Pecan Grove Store.  It just doesn't get any cooler than this.  Photo by Doug Bins
    • Costa Rica  This payphone was found in the area of the Turrialba Volcano on an unnamed road south of Route 417.  And now you can call it.  Photo by Tyler Durden
  • Back Inside  Off the Hook Payphones
    • United States  Found in Texas, where you may find it hard to make a call even if you hang up the receiver.  Photo by B R
    • United States  From Rock Island, Illinois, another example of a receiver in disrepair.  Photo by Gursimran Sandhu
    • Mexico  At least this Boca de Tomatlán phone looks like you can just hang it up to get it working again.  But in reality there was no dial tone.  Photo by Michael Stevenson
    • United States  Our country seems to be the leader in damaged receivers - in this case it's missing entirely.  Seen in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles.  Photo by Mark Hudson
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  We're not encouraging people to just spray-paint our name on a wall and send it in for the back cover.  This will work only once.  We're printing this because it's the old site of the 2600 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it makes us feel sentimental, as it's been empty for the past year just like all our other meetings.  We hope to come back stronger than ever when this pandemic comes to an end.  (But please don't spray-paint at your local meeting site or your meeting will likely be moved to the street.)  Thanks to Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman for the submission.
    • Back Photo #2  Sometimes "I.T." doesn't mean information technology.  This is one of those times.  This instance of I.T. is actually a clothing store, found by Sam Pursglove at the Taikoo Li shopping center in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, China.
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Volume 38

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2021)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: As Evil Corley and the One Percent's politics and policies continue to fail - and the public fights back - expect them to be come after YOUR rights, instead of them admitting they were wrong.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Unused But Artsy Payphones
    • Norway  Seen in Bergen, there's something artistic about this hip-looking phone booth.  You almost miss the fact that the receiver's been torn right off.  Photo by grumpychestnut
    • United States  There's no missing the state of this phone from Daytona Beach, Florida.  Being about 200 yards from the ocean explains the rust.  If anyone did figure out how to use it, they would be advised to take precautions against "touchtone tetanus."  Photo by Mark L. Smith
    • Belize  We're told there is no receiver on the end of that cord which doesn't surprise us a bit.  This was found in a small village near Punta Gorda and looks as if it was abandoned a long time ago.  Photo by Jack Jordan
    • United States  This non-working Nortel Millennium phone was found in Portland, Oregon, a rough city to be a payphone in.  But there's no denying that unique Portland charm.  Photo by Jaclyn Smith-Moore
  • Back Inside  Mostly Working Payphones
    • United States  Found in a place called Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve, California, this COCOT actually works and even looks willing to hold a phone book or two.  It's rather inspiring.  Photo by Screaming Yellow Fish
    • Ireland  Even though the phone company is no longer called Eircom, this phone still works.  About all it really needs is a bath.  Photo by Greg Cadogan
    • United States  This ancient phone booth (and phone) are preserved at a place called Frank's Restaurant in Prairieville, Louisiana.  Even if it's not in service, its mere existence is noteworthy.  Photo by crunchylicenseplates
    • England  Here's a phone in need of rescue.  Found in Witham, Essex, you can see the attached "kiosk review" is recommending the removal of this phone.  At least they give you a chance to save it.  Photo by Brad Saint George
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Here's an update on the progress accomplished over the past year with the restoration of a phone booth that we helped fund with a $1000 donation after a bottle we tossed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean made its way into the hands of Henry Anderton in a place called Lera Voe, Shetland last year.  (Read the whole bizarre story in the Spring 2020 issue.)  The note inside the booth reads: "Welcome to this phone kiosk.  The equipment installed is for display purposes only.  It does not function.  The coin box would have been modified after decimalisation and again in 1988.  Enjoy going back in time!"  We're thrilled to see this project end successfully but we won't be dropping any more bottles into the sea.
    • Back Photo #2  This is a painted wall in the city of Olavarria in eastern Argentina, discovered by Marcelo Chiesa.  It is on a junction of an avenue and a road and the city logo appears on the right.  The wall has a telephone pole on each side.  And you've probably figured out by now that this has nothing at all to do with an operating system and everything to do with a celebration of local diversity.
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Does this look like an "insurrection?"
How do you "storm the Capitol" when the police actually let you in?

  
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 38, Number 2 (Summer 2021)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Being cautious of what's fact or fiction in the age of China COVID-19 and how hackers can help.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Greece  Seen near the Acropolis of Athens.  The phone company is Cosmote (OTE) and this phone appears to be from the 1990s.  It accepts prepaid cards.  Photo by Major League Wiffleball
    • Ukraine  This was found in the town center of Dnipro.  Even though you'd likely have a lot of trouble using it, this seems like a relic that should never be removed.  Photo by Floppy Phreak (a.k.a. Solar Angel)
    • Tanzania  Seen at the airport in Dar es Salaam.  Located right next to the mosque where you have to be careful not to step on people's shoes when making a call.  Photo by Richard D
    • Zambia  Found at the airport in Ndola.  It accepts cards and still seems to be in service.  Photo by Richard D
  • Back Inside  Special Payphones
    • United States  Now this is a really good idea.  Marking phones that still work is like awarding a badge of honor.  Seen outside a CVS near downtown Gainesville, Florida.  Photo by george
    • United States  Believe it or not, there's a whole bank of these at the San Francisco International Airport.  Someone had to make the decision to at least keep the phones as decorations if they couldn't remain functional.  Photo by dingo
    • Canada  This is indeed a very special payphone.  It's attached to the local central office near Big Bar in British Columbia.  Since there's no cell coverage in this rural area and it's literally attached to the phone company with a comfy chair nearby, we suspect this phone will be around for a long time.  Photo by Chris Adams
    • United States  And here we are back where we began.  Apparently these stickers are making the rounds, though someone decided to obliterate the "Yes" for this one.  Found in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  Photo by Douglas Barret
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  As if being a former Western Electric Teletype building wasn't cool enough, this one also had a very special address on Chicago's North Southport Avenue!  The Teletype Corporation (previously the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company) became a part of AT&T in 1930 and existed all the way up to 1990, after which it became nearly impossible to find a decent dedicated teleprinter.  Thanks to David Morton for finding this awesome building which is now a bunch of condominiums.
    • Back Photo #2  We always knew this day would come.  Get a bunch of mechanically inclined, adventurous people together and eventually they'll build a rocket.  In this case, all it took was a cardboard shipping tube, some plywood, a baseball bat, and tape.  The decals were printed on shipping labels.  robohobo launched this rocket which stands at just over five feet tall with a class-F composite rocket motor in Calvert, Texas.  And now we await the inevitable arms race of bigger, faster, and more powerful missiles with our name on them.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 38, Number 3 (Autumn 2021)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Tribute to former CIA case officer, frequent HOPE speaker, and American hero Robert D. Steele.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Australia  From Brunswick, Melbourne, where payphones are now free for domestic calls (meaning that message on the screen is outdated).  This, incidentally, is the smartest thing we've seen done with payphones in ages: keeping them in service and making them more appealing.  Photo by Jacqui A'Vard
    • Northern Ireland  Technically an emergency phone, but this one really caught our eye, seen near Giant's Causeway.  No matter how many times we look at it, it seems to give the appearance of being upside down.  Photo by Trevor Pour
    • China  The city of Chongqing, where this phone was found, has more than 31 million people in it, yet most of us have never heard of it.  This tiny phone in a big booth was seen on the way to Hongya Cave.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Austria  This is a bit of time travel.  Found at the foot of the Grossglockner (the tallest mountain of Austria), this is not only a working phone, but a well maintained booth, complete with a phone book.  And to complete the trip into the past, calls cost 30 euro cents a minute.  Photo by Robert van den Breemen
  • Back Inside  Payphones With a View (U.S.)
    • Arizona  Found in the Petrified Forest National Park (that's petrified wood lining the parking lot).  Frontier, incidentally, is part of Citizens Utilities Company, an independent phone company that's been around since 1935.  Photo by Marcus Watanabe
    • New Hampshire  Seen in North Conway, this phone has a lot going for it: plenty of artwork and a fantastic view.  And did we mention that it works?  Photo by Jeff Hanson
    • California  Wandering around Yosemite National Park, one wouldn't expect to come upon a working payphone complete with a booth.  The forest is full of surprises.  Photo by Ian French
    • California  In this case, maybe the phone itself doesn't have a view, but we can honestly say that the view here happens to be the phone itself.  Discovered (somehow) in Forestville.  Photo by Kevin Strishock
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Congratulations to Joshua Pritt for spotting this gasoline-powered Kent Bayside 2600 bicycle (you can see the "2600" on the frame under the seat) in Melbourne, Florida.  It's a bit ironic how this started out as the best form of transportation environmentally and wound up getting converted to the worst polluting option for pedal assistance.  It's actually a bit of an insult to our name.
    • Back Photo #2  Now this is super cool.  It's one thing to have an actual card puncher from the really old days of computing.  But to have it be a Wright Punch Model 2600 on top of that is almost too much to believe.  This was spotted by Jon Guidry at an Atlanta Historical Computing Society meeting, where apparently people sometimes bring in really awesome artifacts.
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A True American Hero & Patriot: Robert D. Steele (1952-2021)
BTW, Mr. Steele was murdered for exposing child trafficking.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 38, Number 4 (Winter 2021-2022)

  • Price: $7.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Virgil Griffith, (Personal Website), his trip North Korea, his ridiculous criminal case and imprisonment, and just how dirty and corrupt the (((DOJ))) and FBI are.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Ireland  This is a well-maintained phone found in Dublin Airport which takes both coins and cards.  It's a comfort just knowing it's there.  Photo by jw @hm
    • Australia  Seen in the Cape Leveque area of Western Australia at a camping ground many hours from civilization called Banana Well Getaway, this is actually a "Community Wi-Fi Phone."  Most calls are free, but some (to mobile phones and international) require a calling card.  Photo by will webster
    • Peru  This woman in Arequipa is the payphone.  She has four phones in her apron, one for each cell phone system (Claro, Movistar, Bitel, and Entel).  It costs less to call within the same company, so she will make the call on the corresponding handset and bill you after.  Photo by Tracy Kolenchuk
    • Belarus  Found at Bar Bez Bashni in Mogilev, this super-old-school model is actually still operational - rotary dial and all.  Photo by Maria Pursglove
  • Back Inside  Payphone Pairs
    • China  We don't know how often it happens, but occasionally two people need to use a payphone at the same time.  In this part of Hong Kong (Tung Chung), they would each be in luck.  Photo by Jon Whitton
    • Canada  These two Nortel phones were found at the passenger pickup/dropoff point at Canada's Wonderland in Maple, Ontario.  And they are both in working order.  Photo by Mike Ellio
    • United States  These two phones were found out-side the Kalaloch Lodge in the Olympic National Park on the Pacific coast of Washington State.  Sadly, neither works, despite looking like they really should.  Photo by RogerRobot
    • Costa Rica  These two were found in Playas del Coco.  They only take cards, but they both work.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Of all of the "not found" 404 error messages that appear in real life, this one, found on an Art Deco building in South Beach, Florida by Sam Pursglove, has to be one of the most visually attractive.
    • Back Photo #2  There's nothing in this photo that meets the conditions listed at the bottom of the page.  It's just way cool to know that there's a shop out there that still fixes and sells typewriters and calculators.  Thanks to Korey Young for finding this awesome place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  Let us all do everything we can to ensure it sticks around forever.
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Volume 39

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 39, Number 1 (Spring 2022)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: A New HOPE convention during the era of China COVID-19.  U.S. borders: BAD, Ukraine borders: GOOD.  Now go die for your jew masters...
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Ukraine  Seen in Dnipro less than a month before the invasion, we can only hope this phone and the adjoining postal box still exist.  The building was damaged by a Russian missile on 12 March.  Photo by Svyatoslav Pidgorny
    • Honduras  From Copán Ruinas, this one has definitely seen better days.  The phone itself looks well maintained apart from the obvious issue.  Photo by Nicolas Stavros Niarchos
    • Malaysia  Discovered on Langkawi Island, this phone exudes a defiant tone.  A real fixer-upper.  Photo by Zak Cunningham
    • Turkey  Found next to an elementary school in the Fatih district of Istanbul, this model looks both heavily used and well maintained.  Photo by Ammar Husami
  • Back Inside
    • United States  Seen outside of the local independent Pymatuning Telephone Company in Transfer, Pennsylvania, this booth wins awards for its association with the cool sounding names - and for simply existing and providing shelter.  The phone itself is a functioning second generation GTE 120B.  Photo by Maya King
    • England  While this Oxford booth looks just like the real thing - and no doubt was at some point - it's actually an ATM, at least on one side.  Someone had the bright idea of attaching an actual payphone to the outside, which is one of the strangest things we've ever seen.  And yes, it works.  Photo by Jeff Alyanak
    • Cuba  These booths are just plain weird.  Found in Havana in a place that advertises the country people are already in, these look lik museum exhibits somehow.  They are certainly the clearest booths we've seen in a while.  Photo by c
    • United States  This Seattle phone booth, seen in the Maple Leaf neighborhood, is torn between being a phone booth and a library.  The phone doesn't work and the shelves are empty.  Stay tuned.  Photo by Jesse Arnold
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  What's funny here is that we assumed this was the seafood restaurant that grabbed the Twitter handle before we could for our Off The Hook radio show.  But guess what?  There's another seafood restaurant in Bethany Beach, Delaware with that name and they're the ones with the now seemingly abandoned Twitter handle.  It's all good - it's only Twitter - we don't care.  Thanks to murph for reminding us.
    • Back Photo #2  What a great picture, also found by murph.  It's a little gas station sign in Hope, New Jersey and a great reminder of our upcoming HOPE conference in July.  It also reminds us that we didn't get the Hope Twitter handle either.  Amazingly, that one appears to be abandoned, too.  Again, we're fine.  Frustration is what keeps us moving forward, after all.
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Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
Bombing in Ukraine (Raw Footage)
Results of an Attack from Ukrainian Army on Lugansk Regional Administration Building
Elon Musk Just Did This In Ukraine And It Could Change EVERYTHING  Russell Brand gets it, Evil Corley does not...



  $2600 Magazine - Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2022)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: How social media websites knowingly spread disinformation to help get corrupt politicians like Hillary Clinton elected, and the need to take social media a whole lot less seriously.  It means actually talking to people one on one and not just going with what's popular or trending.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Working Payphones
    • Romania  This cheerful looking phone was found inside a university hospital in Bucharest.  We're told it's in pretty good condition and that there are not very many left.  Photo by Daniel Cioaca
    • Switzerland  Spotted at the Thunplatz train and bus area in Bern, this efficient looking model looks like it's prepared for just about anything.  Photo by Tom Dalton
    • United States  Seen on the Hawaiian island of Maui in the town of Paia, you would never think this phone was actually in working order.  But it is!  And it moonlights as a bulletin board.  Photo by Jim
    • Canada  These win the prize as they're all working.  You'll have to go to the B gates at Vancouver International Airport to see them, but it's well worth the trip.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
  • Back Inside  Uncertain Payphones
    • Ireland  We've seen phone booths converted to libraries but this is a first.  Seen in Westport, this former phone box now sells eggs on the honor system.  (And it's also a library.)  Photo by Daniel Cussen
    • France  We honestly don't know what's going on here as most of this phone's features seem to be obscured by dust or sun or just fading into nothingness.  Supposedly all payphones in the country were disappearing by 2018.  Here's one they missed.  Photo by Nicolas RUFF
    • United States  Found at a Buca di Beppo in Washington D.C., this phone appears to defy the odds by even existing.  The coin vault and instruction card were once updated, but nobody ever got around to replacing the handset sticker for Bell Atlantic, a company that hasn't existed for more than 22 years.  Photo by Byte Stealer
    • United States  Where else but inside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in New York City would you expect to find a payphone in an old-fashioned wooden booth with chair, fan, and light?  It's actually one of several.  But you'll be disappointed if you expect any of them to work.  Photo by Anne Jackson
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  You'd think we would have heard of this by now, but there's actually a Hacker beer made in Belgrade, Serbia by Robocraft Brewery and discovered by Sam Pursglove.  Their web has a description of the character the beer is named after which translates to: "Hacker is a developer who is tired of working for the big corporations that run our lives, and his mission is to decode the industrial matrix in brewing that we are bombarded with by the mass media."  Maybe we'll get around to importing it.
    • Back Photo #2  Observed somewhere in Wyoming by Grace McNerney, who theorizes that "maybe it's The Matrix trying to tell us Wyoming really doesn't exist."  That's exactly what they'd want us to believe.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 39, Number 3 (Autumn 2022)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The SAME people who attacked the FBI and (((DOJ))) for going after Kevin Mitnick, Ross Ulbricht, Virgil Griffith, Barrett Brown, Aaron_Swartz, and who dropped charges against (((Sam Bankman-Fried))) are now cheering for the FBI and (((DOJ))) to harass Biden's political opponents, and interfere in our democracy/elections by forcing corporations like Facebook and Twitter to censor stories like Hunter Biden's laptop or exposing Hillary Clinton's "Russia collusion" hoax.  Also, pushing more lies, fear, and misinformation about the Jan 6. protests and now falsely claiming President Trump "stole TOP SECRET documents."  Note the President has the ability to declassify any document.
  • Cover  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Defiant Payphones
    • England  As long as these boxes exist, we'll always believe there's hope for payphones.  You can find them dotted all throughout the country.  This one was in Whinfell Forest, Brougham, Cumbria.  Photo by XCM
    • United States  You may have heard stories a few months back about the last payphone in New York City being disconnected.  But there are still plenty around and here's the proof.  You can visit this one in the subway station at Rockefeller Center.  Photo by Zachary Edminster
    • Austria  You may think it's the plant that's being defiant here in Vienna.  But it's the payphone that's really struggling to remain relevant.  And this one works fine - if you can get to it.  (And note the size of that phone booth!)  Photo by Richard Hanisch
    • England  This phone seems a bit defensive with its threatening tone and use of the word "loser."  But it's clearly been through a lot and is likely still under constant attack.  Even the nasty ad warning against vandalism has been defaced.  Photo by Matt Thrailkill
  • Back Inside  Colorful Payphones
    • Spain  This pleasant looking model was found in Pontedeume, Galicia and is owned by Telefónica, the oldest communications company in Spain.  Their old "T" logo can still be seen above the receiver.  Unfortunately, the phone is not in service.  hoto by Francisco J. Tsao Santín
    • Gabon  This grimy but intact model lives in the train station in Booué.  But when picking up the receiver, nothing was heard.  Photo by Vernon A. Thorax
    • Vatican City  Discovered by the Sistine Chapel, this bright yellow phone only works with cards that you can buy at the local post office.  Photo by Matt Anderson
    • Israel  Spotted inside the old city of Jerusalem inside the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, this payphone still has a dial tone, but can be used to make free calls only.  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Yes, this is quite real.  Made by the Ferro13 winery in Verona, Italy and discovered by Patrick Bureau, we have yet to try it but fully intend to.  They also have wines called Nerd, Link, and Hashtag, among others.  None of us were in the mood to try and decode the binary, but we'll probably have done it by the time this issue hits the stands.
    • Back Photo #2  This was found by Brandon on the 2600th step of the Manitou Incline in Manitou Springs, Colorado and it deserves a special mention because it means he had to actually climb that many steps in order to take the picture.  (And it's close to the top as there are a total of 2768 steps!)
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 39, Number 4 (Winter 2022-2023)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: As Evil Corley and One Percent drive the economy into the ground by endlessly printing money and funding more foreign wars, YOU are expected to pay, not those rich New Yorkers...
  • Cover  (RIP Jim Vichench)  (Cover Info)
  • Cover Inside  Foreign Payphones
    • Brunei  Half of a pair found in an empty parking lot next to the Royal Regalia Museum in Bandar Seri Begawan, this phone is only set up for calling cards.  You can see the old JTB logo on the sign above.  The newer TelBru logo can be seen on the sides of the kiosk.  There's no sign of the current name, which is Imagine.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • South Korea  Seen in the countryside town of Suncheon, also half of a pair, both of which were fully operational.  This close-up view shows how both coins and cards are accepted.  Operated by KT, formerly Korea Telecom.  Photo by Nara
    • Australia  This phone is located at the Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre in Geelong, Victoria.  Unlike most payphone companies, Telstra has made their phones completely free for calls within the country.  (You can see how someone has scratched off the "pay" part of "payphone.")  Photo by DarkLight
    • Canada  Spotted at the Northern Store in the remote community of Churchill, Manitoba.  Pressing the button gets you a free call to the local taxi company.  (We don't know what happened on October 1st.)  Photo by TProphet
  • Back Inside  Artistic Payphones
    • Germany  Seen in a museum in Düsseldorf, this is an actual work of art by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  The notes next to the exhibit say the payphone "was an important object' during their time in New York City when "they had to communicate with numerous people."  We concur.  Photo by Kai Kramhoeft
    • United States  This working phone is directly outside the Buncombe County Courthouse in downtown Asheville, North Carolina and is used by people without cell phones who are going through court proceedings.  The positive and comforting messages here have likely helped many through difficult times.  Photo by Will Hazlitt
    • Poland  This relic was found at the Klubokawiarnia KEN54 pub in Warsaw.  The phone itself would qualify as a work of art, but the surrounding decorations certainly add to the atmosphere.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • United States  Maybe it's the landscape or the way the colors really seem to go well with each other, but we found this non-working, lonely phone to be a thing of beauty.  Seen in Julesburg, Colorado along the South Platte River Trail Scenic and Historic Byway.  Photo by Screaming Yellow Fish
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  We had quite a reaction to the picture of the typewriter repair shop we printed a year ago.  Dan Grebb found another one, also in Pennsylvania!  This one is in Lansdale and has been around since 1945 - and hopefully will be much longer.  Having "1337" as an address just adds to the magic.
    • Back Photo #2  So this is an accomplishment to be proud of: hitting the 2600 mark in Facebook friends.  While dsttyy considers most of these people to be acquaintances and not actual friends, it's really all about the number for us.  And they swear this wasn't Photoshopped.  (And obviously, there's no reason for anyone to ever send us another picture when this exact scenario happens to them.)
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Volume 40

  $2600 Magazine - Volume 40, Number 1 (Spring 2023)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: Celebrating 40 years of profiting from other people's BBS files and their new online digital subscription service.
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  • Cover Inside  Battered Payphones
    • Canary Islands  Seen in Arrecife on the island of Lanzarote, the cheery blue color disguises the pain this phone must feel on a daily basis while rust eats away at its existence.  Photo by Spinoinside
    • Guam  This sad relic was found at the Chamorro Night Market in Hagåtña.  It still looks strong, although it's clearly missing some vital parts.  Photo by Sam Pursglove
    • Cuba  While old and battered, we believe this Havana payphone is still in working order.  It's always good to see old tech continuing to serve a purpose.  Photo by Mikki Janower
    • Israel  This Jerusalem phone has seen things.  There may still be hope for it, but a serious makeover is clearly needed.  The phone number rings when you call it, but don't expect anyone to pick up.  Photo by Philip Rosenthal
  • Back Inside  U.S. Payphones and More
    • Oregon  Granted, there isn't much of a payphone here at all - until you look really close and see that someone took the time to sketch a payphone on the metal shell.  That's true dedication.  Spotted in Milwaukie.  Photo by JamesTDG
    • Massachusetts  Here we have what once was a working payphone in Carver, but is now a vandalized wreck.  However, if you look in the upper-left, you'll see a small hornet nest is now installed, possibly to protect the phone from future attacks.  Photo by cameraeye206
    • New York  Again, this is but a shell, however it says so much.  Found in the hamlet of Poughquag, its neighbors appear to be other abandoned relics: a barrel of used cooking oil, a forgotten garbage can, and a maybe-still-working vacuum cleaner.  We're heartened that a RESIST sticker made it here.  Photo by PRD
    • New York  Here we have a much more upbeat scene found in Eastchester.  A payphone, a trash can, two mailboxes, and a UPS dropbox all seem in good order and ready to serve anyone walking by.  Indeed, a most welcome sight.  Photo by Anastasia Barro
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  Well, it's about time.  The perfect place for a 2600 meeting, as seen in Apache Junction, Arizona by Matt Witten.  (Actually, Hacker's Grill closes at 2 pm every day so it'll have to be an early gathering.)  Expect us.
    • Back Photo #2  We've been looking for this road for years!  We're surprised the signs are still up.  (Please don't steal the signs.)  This elite highway was discovered by N1xis10t in rural western Kentucky near Madisonville.  (Now all we need is a hacker restaurant that's actually on this road.)
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 40, Number 2 (Summer 2023)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The potential for large corporations to replace the human workforce with AI, further proving they don't care about humanity.
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  • Cover Inside  International Payphones
    • Uruguay  These are four (supposedly) working and clean phones as seen at the Buquebus terminal in Colonia del Sacramento.  They're either very well maintained or completely forgotten.  Photo by Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman
    • India  Seen at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, this phone gives you the opportunity to get a printed receipt for your call!  Retro and modern simultaneously.  Photo by Jack Jordan
    • Kazakhstan  Spotted in a bank of three at an Almaty Metro subway station.  Two were out of service.  It takes only cards, which are rather hard to find and not sold in the station.  (That logo for Kazakhtelecom sure does look familiar.)  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Japan  While payphones are still somewhat common here, this bank of them found on one of the Shinkansen platforms at Kyōto Station really stands out.  For one thing, the sunlight seems to be highlighting their bright green cases.  A sight to behold.  Photo by maroth
  • Back Inside  Interesting Payphones
    • Mexico  This is a particularly vibrant looking phone in the midst of a busy street in the sunny surf town of Sayulita.  Sure, it's covered in graffiti, but it looks to be in decent condition.  Photo by taylorbohn17
    • United States  Found in Portland, Oregon, this phone has been set up for free use and reportedly "sounds like an old payphone when dialing."  (More on Futel can be found on pages 13 and 47 of 40:1.)  Photo by Creative Resistance
    • Ukraine  As seen in Lviv earlier this year, this phone takes cards and apparently is still in good working order.  It certainly looks like it's seen a lot.  Photo by John Costa
    • Canada  Spotted in Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, the phone that looks like a permanent part of this building takes both cards and coins and has a dial tone.  The fiber assets in this part of the country are now owned by thirteen Yukon First Nation Development Corporations.  Photo by gbn
  • Back  The Back Cover Photos
    • Back Photo #1  This is Sonia who is apparently as avid a reader of our pages as anyone else.  Thanks to Veronica for capturing this priceless moment.  We open our pages for documentation of any other such interactions with the animal kingdom.
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    • Back Photo #4  We can only wonder what people passing by on the freeway must have thought as this massive error message was proudly displayed at the Oakland "Oracle" Arena where the Golden State Warriors played basketball until recent years.  Witnessed by Halie Symmons, this is likely one of the world's biggest shells.
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 40, Number 3 (Autumn 2023)

  • Price: $8.95
  • Issue's Cash Cow: The deaths of hacker legends Kevin Mitnick and Robert Osband (The Cheshire Catalyst).  :(
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  • Cover Inside  Colorful Payphones
    • Germany  Residing on a street in the Alexanderplatz district of Berlin, this phone has more art and advice than function.  Photo by Mike Quin
    • Spain  Seen in a suburb of Barcelona, another high-rise phone structure with a lot of free expression going on.  Photo by Jacob Pritchett
    • Canada  Found in East Vancouver, there's clearly no phone in this full-size former British booth, but the headless statue really makes up for that.  Photo by Josh Paulto
    • Canada  We don't know when payphones became canvases for local artists, but this model in Montreal serves the purpose admirably.  Photo by S D
  • Back Inside  Basic U.S. Payphones
    • Kelley, Iowa  A rare working payphone that's run by a company called Huxley.  Supposedly local residents have fun making it ring whenever somebody walks by.  (Population: 304)  Photo by Benjamin T. Rittgers
    • Northwest Angle, Minnesota  Another Automatic Electric payphone with free local service in a truly bizarre location: a United States "pene-exclave" where land access is only possible through Canada.  (Population: 119)  Photo by Babu Mengelepouti
    • Davis, West Virginia  These models can be found all over the place if you look.  The "Sell Tline" has nothing to do with a phone company, but is part of a campaign to change the ownership of a local ski resort.  (Population: 595)  Photo by Brian Collins
    • Morristown, New Jersey  About as basic as you can get, except for the fact that it's not in working order.  And "Raul's" is not the name of the phone company, but rather the empanada shop where this is located.  (Population 20,180)  Photo by murph
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  $2600 Magazine - Volume 40, Number 4 (Winter 2023-2024)

  • The Road Behind  - Editorial

  • The Dark Side of DNA Data  - Exploring the privacy implications of aggregated domestic genomic information, by Aniika Gjesvold Cantero

  • The BoneBox  - Convert an old AT& Craft Access Terminal with a Adafruit PyPortal into a test-set for the modern phreaker or hacker, by Delchi

  • Artificial Intelligence and Creativity  - by Ben Belinsky

  • Career and Gloating in Las Vegas  - by Thrunter X. Thoompson

  • Telecom Informer  - by The Prophet

  • Enhance Your Typing Experience With Mechanical Keyboards  - by writerbenjamin

  • Adventures in Lockpicking  - by Street

  • Ooops; v97.129  - by lg0p89

  • Geo-Distributed Bug Bounty Hunting  - by Anthony Russell  (Twitter, GitHub)

  • Being a Hacker  - by Jo

  • Byte-Sized Justice: A Tale of Hacker Ethics and Copy Protection  - by The Mage

  • A Quick Intro to Biohacking  - by microbyt3

  • Hacker Perspective  - by Derneval Cunha

  • Privacy: Protecting Your Personal Information Online  - by Manish Mradul  (LinkedIn)

  • The AI Risk Nobody Seems to Mention  - by Felix Atter

  • American Shanzhai: Part 4  - by gr3ase

  • Letters  - Refreshments
    • Interactions  - gmachine24, MY
    • Critique  - DM, M, The Logical Robot, Veg, Nicholas
    • Interesting Finding  - Kent, Ryan, Cody, xcm, Rory, Hank, Joel, Colin Cogle, Jeffrey
    • Meetings  - Frank, Joseph, /Psychad, Calgary Hacks, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman, ReK2, killab33z, Sean, Rosie & Saskia
    • Suspicion  - luRaichu
    • Tale of Woe  - Tarsk
    • Appreciation  - Allen, MTM, James, Vincent
    • Responses  - Mx. Blu3, Delta Charlie Tango, dcase, MW, Chris, Dan N
    • Q&A  - Justin, Dave, Bob, Micha, John, Professor DOS, Joe, Mr. Nobody, The Master Cylinder, P_S_y_c_h_O-pup, (incarcerated), Anonymous
    • Moving on Up  - taddy, Joe

  • EFFecting Digital Freedom  - Against privacy nihilism, by Jason Kelley

  • Quantum Computer Algorithms: Part 3 - DES Decryption  - In this article, we look at using an oracle algorithm to perform a known-plaintext attack on the DES block cipher systems, by Dave D'Rave

  • GPT Revolution: Reimagining Programming in the Era of AI  - by kuraz

  • Snitched Out by Tech  - Overview of how it seems everything has a unique tracking ID or serial number which can follow you around forever, by Anonymous

  • I Fight for the Users  - Introduction to the Veilid Project, a privacy centric network that enhances human privacy in communications, created by people who openly censor people and ideas they don't agree with, by The_Gibson  (Paul Miller, Email)

  • Artificial Interruption  - On trust and moral clarity in (((war time))), by Alexander J. Urbelis

  • Platform Capitalism Can't Surveil Absurdism (and Worse)  - by Nicholas Croce

  • Alzheimer's and AR Tech  - by Mx. Blu3

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  • Cover Inside  Taiwanese Payphones
    • Taipei #1  This phone with a "Hello Kitty" theme was seen at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.
    • Taipei #2  Here we have a bright yellow phone which was seen around the presidential palace area.
    • Taipei #3  This model was found near the Neihu metro station and has "Epidemic Situation Report" and a whole bunch of directory assistance options on its speed dial listing.
    • Taipei #4  Finally, the bright red option, guaranteed to get your attention.  This was also seen by the Neihu metro station.  It's pretty much identical to the yellow phone, but the color makes it appear so different.  Photos by Sam Pursglove
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    • United States  This phone, along with at least three baby birds, was seen near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.  Nobody dared to check for a dial tone.  Photo by Austin Burk
    • United States  Found at the Ragged Point Inn in a place called Ragged Point, California, you might notice that in addition to the absence of a phone, there is an actual tin can attached to a wire.  Nobody was on the other end, unfortunately.  Photo by Wes Hill
    • Djibouti  This is what's known as a human payphone.  When you want to make a call, you just hand some cash to one of these guys and show them the number you want to dial.  They spend a few minutes working behind the counter, and then hand you a Nokia once it's ringing.  Photo by Tom Dalton
    • Canada  Sadly, legendary Winnipeg blues club and dive bar The Windsor Hotel burned to the ground in September.  The biggest surviving piece seems to have been this wall with a MTS payphone attached.  If it looks a little worse for wear, we'll bet it looked that way well before the fire.  Photo by b0realf0rest
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    • Back Photo #2  We thought at last our readers had found us a place where we could get our many floppies fixed.  But, alas, what David Mooter uncovered over in Austin, Texas was a secret speakeasy that requires a secret code to get in.  They even have a website at www.floppydiskrepairco.com but we found no clues there.
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
    --- George Orwell



"... personal journals admitting that Mr. Cummings tapped a former girlfriend's phone and subsequently broke into her apartment ..."

    --- Secret Service Agent Tom Varney during the Edward E. Cummings (Bernie S.) trial.  So where's the Freedom Downtime ($30) DVD for the harassed young lady?


"But the Secret Service knew that he wasn't building bombs, but for some reason though they chose to say that he was."

"The former landlord, Charles Rappa of Broomall, said he found eight to 10 sticks of dynamite in the house after Cummings moved out in October."

    --- Evil Corley (top quote) on Off The Hook August 13, 1996 and a short news article (bottom quote) on the Bernie S. arrest.  It was actually Ed Cummings' neighbor, not the Secret Service, that started the whole "explosives" idea.


"I had never met him before I was busted.  When I went to work for the bureau [FBI] I contacted him.  He was still up to his old tricks so we opened a case on him and Roscoe [Lewis De Payne].  It's a long story but they wound up getting busted again.  Mitnick got tipped off right before they were going to pick him up.  So he's on the run again.  Roscoe wasn't so lucky.  This will be Mitnick's fifth time to get busted.  What a loser.  Everyone thinks he is some great hacker.  I out smarted him and busted him.  Poulson [sic] blows him away as well.

    --- Justin T. Petersen (Agent Steal) describing $2600 Magazine's main cash cow Kevin Mitnick in Phrack Magazine, Issue #44.


"Now that everyone has had their say.  [Kevin] Poulsen ratted on me 1st, called 911 while I was in a C.O.  2nd, [Ron] Austin had his own agenda.  3rd, [Kevin] Mitnick was a feather in my cap.  I was paid to nail him and I did.  I didn't even know him.  Now people pay to hear him chirp about caller ID spoofing.  j/k  The person who received my $150K wire transfer walked.  I kept him out of it.  Also, the P.I. firm I was wire tapping for was never charged, I made sure of that.

I know who my friends are."

    --- Justin T. Petersen (Agent Steal) in a September 2008 YouTube comment to his Digital Desperado interview on CNN.  (Transcript)


"... All in all, this is the best issue of 2600 Magazine I have read in several issues (despite the fact that some of the material had appeared in Phrack Inc., LOD/H TJs, and/or Telecom Digest previously).  Let's hope they continue to be as good."

    --- Review of $2600 Magazine Vol. 6, No. 3 in Phrack Magazine, Issue #29.  Just how long have they been stealing articles?


"Finally, this is the part that everyone complains about, the price.  But, 2600 has a great deal for those poor college hacker out there.  If you submit something to 2600 Magazine that is printed, you get a free subscription.  That sounds fair to me!  Maybe we should try the same thing with Phrack?"

    --- Review of $2600 Magazine Vol. 8, No. 3 in Phrack Magazine, Issue #37.  Haha!


"If I recall previous issues of 2600... they consider copying to be the best form of flattery... don't know what they currently say, I don't have an issue handy.

You can obviously get all the info in 2600 from the net, before they put it into magazine form... but if your time is of any value their summary is great... also... you can't read the web onthe can or the bus..."

    --- January 12, 1997 USENET comment from Glen L. Roberts of Full Disclosure magazine.


"'PHRACK MAGAZINE - Hey, at least it's not 2600!'"

    --- Phrack Prophile on The UNIX Terrorist (Stephen Watt) in Phrack Magazine, Issue #65.


"Phrack does not cater to the morons of the world, sorry.  Try 2600.  I hear their target audience is a bit thicker skulled."

"We can only hope that your article brings Emmanuel and the rest of the 2600 editorial team as much amusement as it brought us.  Not from going and harassing people at Walmart, no.  Mostly from laughing at you for writing it.  We'll leave the articles on hacking things like Walmart and Disney World for publication by 2600.  We like to think we still have a reputation for quality."

    --- Excerpts from Phrack Magazine, Issue #52.


"We'll publish anyone's Social Security number."

    --- Evil Corley quoted at SummerCon 1992.  Imagine if the New York Times were to publish Corley's SSN.  His little posse of teenage boys would all be screaming bloody murder.


"Eric Corley is the biggest sell out in the hacker community.  When 2600 started out it used to be published on the sly as the guiding light of the fledgling hacker underground.  Now it's so mainstream it's available at the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble and Borders as well as other newsstands.  So is Blacklisted, but unlike Blacklisted, Corley does not pay writers and he is notorious for just publishing things and not giving the author credit.  He did this with one of our Tech Journals.

Corley's only claim to fame is is that he pleaded guilty in 1984 to charges of breaking into an e-mail system owned by the GTE Corp.  He has no technical knowledge and relies on his brat pack to explain things to him.  If you ever have the chance to get into a technical discussion with him, it's quite funny.  I once tried, unsuccessfully for a half hour to try and explain what a Dremel tool is to him.

In 1998, 2600 claimed it had been beset by financial problems that the magazine blames on its distributor and losses sustained in backing HOPE.  This claim of being put down by the man and his distribution being targeted was his battlecry for yet more newsstand distribution.  His sales figures jumped 50% in twelve months.

Corley has sold his soul for the Almighty Dollar.  With that said, We cannot tolerate sellouts.  We have even more reasons but I won't even get into his 'freaky' side, lets just say he should have never left his email account logged in at a terminal at the L0pht.  Most old schoolers know the truth but won't say word one.  The IIRG is not like most groups, we're not in a popularity contest and we don't want your cash.  We deal with like minded groups like the GBPPR."

    --- Mercenary/IIRG in the Blacklisted! 411 forums.  You should check out their printed hacker magazine also, it has some good technical info.


"Corley is living in his little 'fantasy world' where he is leading an oppressed life and secretly longs to band his minions the 'Corleyites' into the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the government.

Then he can find the boy of his dreams and they can fall in love and have and live happily ever after.

It kills him that his love of young boys is considered a crime."

    --- Mercenary/IIRG telling it like it is.


"He's the self-righteous over-privileged son of well-to-do yard residents who has made a career of self-aggrandizement, and markets himself to maladjusted teens and pre-teens, clinging desparately to the idea that they're not just *weird*, they're *special*.  Making vague associations with people he is in no way a peer of, he's managed to build a tiny little empire which prevents him from a) having to work, and b) having to deal with the humility of taking money from mommy and daddy.  Having had in-depth person to person conversations with him, as well as countless wasted hours of IRC, I know enough about him to know that reading his socio-political self-martyring diatribe is, for me, a waste of time."

    --- Quote from Mohammed Niyal Sayeed in Evil Corley is Not a Regular New Yorker, a thread discussing $2600 Magazine's 2004 RNC propaganda.


"Mitnick made a habit of stealing the identities of dead children (usually infants & toddlers) while he was on the run.  He's admitted this in several interviews since his release.  Yeah, that's really f*cking cool.  Defiling dead babies.  Stop for a minute and ask what the parents of these children must feel like...  What YOU would feel like.  Quit making Mitnick a f*cking demi-god.  He's just another fat little jew with too much time (and too much of his daddy's money) on his hands.  Quit idolizing him."


"Read it from end to end.  What a whimpering little snit.  With all that he was able to get away with, for as long as he did, he should be lucky that he ever got out at all.  Now he is banking on a lifetime of prestiege and his experiences.  What a wanker for getting caught.  That is the crux of it...getting caught.  Wha wha whaaa."


"Why is it that people get so worked up over Mitnick?

He was a dick to a bunch of people, he got in trouble, he spent some time in jail.  Okay, that sucks for him, but why does everyone drool over him?

Woz was an electronic prankster, but he wasn't a jerk, and he *created things* instead of just making people unhappy.  I could see being a Woz fan, but waving a 'Kevin' flag is just weird."


"No, all he wanted to do was steal cellphone service and other services.  Mitnick was not some grand hacker, he at that time was simply a petty thief that had skills that others did not.  He was after the next big score or what would give him something for nothing.  Why does everyone paint him to be some kind of leader for freedom and the Hacking Society.  Most of us that were in the scene at that time and before did not have much respect for him."


"He always fails to mention that he was arrested multiple times for hacking - actually, social engineering, which is nothing more than bullshitting people over the phone - and was let out multiple times, even to the point of living in half-way houses.

He and his lawyers tried to get public sympathy by saying that he was arrested and held without trial for years, but they don't mention that every time the government tried to take it to trial, his lawyer asked for a delay.

Among the hackers and phreakers from that era, he was not particularly well-respected.  He was known as a guy who could lie over the phone and convice people to give him information and do things for him.  He was not known as a really technical person.

If you don't believe me, go look through the old back issues of Phrack."

    --- Some "Anonymous Coward" comments about Kevin Mitnick posted on Slashdot.  These comments where marked "-1 Troll," which tells you there is no bias or group-think on Slashdot!


A note from H4G1S:

F*ck Kevin Mitnick!  People like Eric Corley have dedicated
their whole miserable lives to help "free" guilty Kevin Mitnick.
The truth of the matter is Eric Corley is a "profiteering glutton", 
using Kevin Mitnick's misfortune for his own personal benefit and
profit.

    --- September 1998 comment posted on the hacked Slashdot webpage.


"I don't get the media's fascination with Mitnick.  He was never any kind of 'master hacker', or anything even close.  He was nothing more than a script kiddie that got caught.  He used other people's tools, and anyone that read the transcripts knows that he didn't have the expertise to create the tools himself.

He definitely knows about social engineering, but then again, so does just about any good salesman.

The whole Mitnick situation was a gigantic media stunt, and the media continues to let him milk it.

Finally, any company that hires Mitnick to do security work is insane.  Hiring a 'reformed' 'hacker' is a terrible idea.

Mitnick should be working at McDonalds right now.  Why on Earth do we keep hearing his name???"

    --- Quote about Kevin Mitnick from J.C. Pole on the CNET News forums.


"Kevin Mittnick... probably the most heralded 'hacker' of all time was little more than a good salesman... people gave him passwords, information, account names...  He was not very good at computers at all really...  Certainly not anywhere near the level he gets credit for..."

    --- Quote about Kevin Mitnick from "ManBearPig" on the Activity Pit forums.


"Whatever -- Mitnick.  Focus on all the other hackers who are actually TECHNICAL.  [Kevin] Mitnick is just a con artist."

    --- June 12, 2008 quote from Annalee Newitz in her review of The Best of $2600: A Hacker Odyssey.


"Kevin Mitnick is a famous hacker because he's a bad hacker.  There's nothing uber about him.  He fought with one of the slowest and least responsive adversaries in modern history - the police and government bureaucracy - and he lost!  He's a perpetual joke in the [hacker] community and continually exposes neophytes in the press by getting them to call him an 'uber-hacker.'  So congratulations, you fell for it!  :-("

    --- July 21, 2008 quote from Dan Guido on the Silicon Valley Insider blog.


"Mitnick pleaded.  He's as guilty as sin.  Everyone knew it.  Him and OJ belong behind bars as far as I'm concerned.  You play with fire and you get burned.  He just wasn't good enough."

    --- Quote from RSnake (Robert Hansen), webmaster of WebFringe and founder of EHAP Corp. in Voices from the Net (Mirror).


"Although just about everyone agrees Mitnick has been held in jail for too long without a trial, many think he should face the consequences.  'He did do bad things and break the law,' says Tom Jackiewicz, a/k/a invalid, of UPT, an old hacker BBS.  'He should pay for his crimes.'

    --- Quote from UPT's Tom Jackiewicz in Cracking the Code of Ethics.


"mitnick is/was a glorified conman who just happened to use computers.  He's all about SE."

    --- September 19, 2003 USENET posting by "Mimic."


"Great, he's going to write another terrible book.  Ever talk to anyone that actually read his other two?  They're just abominable to read.  And Freedom Downtime being close to truth?  As close the The Matrix is.  Once you're inside the 'hacker community' you quickly learn that Kevin couldn't do much of anything he was touted as being able to do and all he really could do was social engineer."

    --- Quote from James W. on the CrunchGear website discussing Kevin Mitnick's new book deal.


"'I think the prosecutors are trying to make an example of him,' says Jennifer Granick, a San Francisco lawyer who has defended hackers."

    ---Quote from Jennifer Granick on the Kevin Mitnick trial.  No kidding...  I'll bet Kevin won't be stealing a dead baby's personal identification anymore!


"... Also Beyond HOPE was sponsored by 2600 *coughselloutcough* So I saw some t-shirts going around and them selling more of their FREE INFORMATION, but I had to pitch in and buy an 'owned' shirt."

    --- Beyond HOPE review - by AlienPhreak in The HAVOC Technical Journal, Issue #14.


"Hey IIRG, I was reading the most recent issue of 2600 (Autumn 1996) and saw the "Building the Cheese Box" article. Isn't that the IIRG's Technical Journal Number Three by Thomas Icom? And if it was why didn't they give the group any mention?"

IIRG Reply: Apparently 2600 magazine does not want to give any credit where credit is due. On your question, yes you were correct - Thomas Icom originally published that article as the IIRG's Technical Journal Volume II, Issue 3 on July 15, 1995. Thomas Icom brought up the issue several months ago that 2600 was hurting for articles and would like to publish TJ3 in the magazine. We said fine, let them publish the article, it had been out for a year already. We did not expect them to strip out the group credits in the article and copyright notices on our schematic GIF. For us now it's a mute point, in the future we will only allow magazines to publish our work on the basis that they will give credit where credit is due and will not allow magazines to publish our works without a written agreement to do so."

    --- Letter in PHANTASY Magazine, Issue #23.


"Do you folks realize that from time to time the phone numbers you publish have come from my BBS?"

    --- Busted!  Letter from Scan Man, sysop of the Pirate-80 BBS, in Vol. 3, No. 3.


"I will like to state that 2600's selling of the internet Worm source code was done without my knowage [sic] and I am not getting (or want) a cent. I think this is very slimy of them."

    --- Dark Overlord (Peter Shipley), message posted on the Phoenix Project BBS, February 1990.  $2600 Magazine used to sell the source code for $10.  See this ad in Vol. 6, No. 3 for more information.


"Last issue one of our readers appealed for bank indentification numbers (BINs).  We've received several small lists and one huge one for Mastercard.  We're told that the Mastercard/Visa list sells for $895.  We'll part with the Mastercard half for $5 and if we get the Visa half, we'll offer it all for $10.  Meanwhile here's a small sampling."

    --- Excerpt from a BIN sales ad in Vol. 8, No. 2.  This is more evidence of $2600 Magazine selling other people's old BBS files for profit.


"... For me, Kevin Mitnick's real crime is that he violated the original spirit of the hacker ethic.  It's not okay to read other people's mail, and to believe that software and other computer technologies should be freely shared is not the same as believing that it's okay to steal them.

The network of computers know as the Internet began as a unique experiment in building a community of people who shared a set of values about technology and the role computers could play in shaping the world.  That community was based largely on a shared sense of trust.  Today, the electronic walls going up everywhere on the Net are the clearest proof of the loss of that trust and community.  It's a loss for all of us."

    --- Tsutomu Shimomura in Takedown, October 25, 1995.  Thankfully, someone out there still "gets it."  Don't expect Evil Corley to support you though!


"Most of what Kevin used were well-known bugs, he seems to have written, allegedly or whatever, seems to have written very few tools, most of the tools we saw him use were tools written by other people to exploit already well-known bugs and ones for which often patches existed and tools to assess systems to find out what vulnerabilities exist are likely to be very useful, and Dan Farmer here I guess is the expert on this."

    --- Tsutomu Shimomura at the Sunergy 13 Conference on March 21, 1995.


"Mitnick was caught because he was stupid.  He kept doing the same thing over and over."

    --- Quote from Dan Farmer, security expert and co-author of SATAN at OSU NetWOG Security meeting on May 24, 1995.


"'I recognize that voice!' Markoff said immediately.  'That's Eric Corley!'

I'd heard of him.  As the editor of 2600 he had frequently defended Kevin Mitnick in public, arguing that Mitnick was simply a misunderstood and mistreated computer hacker who broke into systems out of curiosity.  There were no victims when a hacker stole software, he claimed.  We could hear Corley chatting with someone about how to improve his public image."

    --- Tsutomu Shimomura in Takedown.  He could start by not touching little boys.


"... He did not look very happy.  My feeling was he had caused a lot of grief for a lot of people, and he had incentive to stop.  He had been to prison before, and he still continued.  It wasn't acceptable behavior, and something had to happen.  It seemed throwing someone in prison is a very inelegant way of stopping someone.  I wish there were an elegant way."

    --- Tsutomu Shimomura in the San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1995.


"So anyway, they happen to mention that Tsutomo is staying at the Watergate Hotel.  Maybe this is kinda childish but I called the front desk and connected to his room - woke his ass up at 6:00 am.  Boy, was he pissed... Especially after being up all night entertaining politicians.  I know, pretty infantile in the scope of things but I hope Kevin gets a good laugh."

    --- Letter from Venshea, MD in Vol. 14, No. 1.  Ever wonder why people portray today's "hackers" as mindless idiots?  You can personally thank Evil Corley for that...


"Susan, I should explain, is an ex-hooker turned computer hacker.  She is plotting revenge on Tsutomu Shimomura, the guy who finally caught her pal Kevin Mitnick, public enemy number one in the virtual world of computer networks.  'Now, is Tsutomu gay or bi or what?'  Susan asks, scrutinizing a well-thumbed newspaper photo.

I tell her I'm pretty sure that he's straight.

'Oh,' she says.  Good.  Maybe now she can really screw him over.  Something sexual, a 'medium-term, possibly long-term' revenge program."

    --- Quote from "Susan Thunder" (Susan Headley) in a August 1995 Esquire article by Katie Hafner.  These sound like really nice people...


"Intriguingly dressed from her feather earrings to her cowgirl boots, Thunder was willing to admit to a variety of 'psychological subversion' techniques she had used to gain information about computer systems.  She was the kind of woman, she told me, who would go to Kansas City on a whim and concoct a scheme of disinformation.  She picked a man at random out of the phone book and circulated information suggesting he was guilty of a serious crime.  She assured me she stopped before the man was arrested, but not before some information had circulated which could have been incriminating."

    --- Quote about "Susan Thunder" (Susan Headley) in a Jay Bloombecker Spectacular Computer Crimes article.  These sound like really, really nice people...


"It is beyond all doubt that Susan really had enormous capabilities, and that she really could access top-secret information in military systems.  It is less certain that she could fire nuclear missiles.  It is clear that she couldn't do it using only a computer.  Possibly, with her access to secret phone numbers, personal information, and security codes, she might have been able to trick the personnel at a silo into firing a missile.  I really hope that she couldn't."

    --- Quote about "Susan Thunder" (Susan Headley) in Copyright Does Not Exist - Female Hackers by Linus Walleij.  That whole "launching nuclear missiles by whistling over the phone" was actually based on security seminars giving by one of Mitnick's hacker buddies.  Why didn't they mention this in Freedom Downtime ($30)?


"... On an interesting note, I used to attend the 2600 Meetings in New York City during the early 1990s when Blacklisted 411 first came out and 2600 started going downhill.  Eric Corley was all perturbed about this 'new' hacker zine that was 'copying' him.  It was then that I first saw a copy of Blacklisted 411.  I examined your periodical and had to bite by tongue because the first thought that popped into by head was 'This blows 2600 away.'  After that meeting, I was having dinner with some of the old-schoolers (TAP-era) who used to show up at the meetings and they all commented on how much better Blacklisted 411 was compared to 2600.  So, you can credit your competition with getting you some readers <lol>."

    --- Letter in Blacklisted! 411 Volume 6, Issue #4.


"Real cyberpunks on the east coast have attended at least one 2600 meeting.

Corollary to the above: Real cyberpunks who have attended a 2600 meeting don't go to them anymore."

    --- Excerpt from The Men From Mongo in their September 1991 Real Cyberpunks article from Phrack Magazine, Issue #36.


"... I did not know Mitnick or his partner, Depayne, prior to ratting them out.  In my mind, which is all that really counts, I was acting strictly as a bounty hunter.  Mitnick is not a harmless hacker, he did in fact profit in many ways from his crimes. So he deserved it too."

    --- Justin T. Petersen (Agent Steal) April 22, 1999 in Irresponsible Journalism.


"Returning to the subject of superhackers, I'd have to say the overall title goes to Kevin Poulsen, a.k.a. Dark Dante.  As far as Mitnick goes, well let's just say he never did anything that wasn't done before.  He never thoroughly impressed me as much as Poulsen, who taught me a great deal."

    --- Justin T. Petersen (Agent Steal).  From An Interview With Agent Steal by Julie Jamison, KARK TV.


"'Kevin's [Mitnick] not like me,' she explained. 'He's really crazy.'  I asked her about his being held without bail and she approved.  'Any punishment he gets is ok with me,' she said.  'he's dangerous.'"

    --- Quote from "Susan Thunder" (Susan Headley) in Jay Bloombecker's Spectacular Computer Crimes article.  Note that she's batshit-crazy also.


"You can kill five people in cold blood and get bail.  You copy files from a large corporation and you don't even get a hearing.  I really want to hear the logic behind this."

    --- December 2, 1998 posting by Evil Corley on the "Free Kevin" mailing list.  Mitnick was clearly a flight risk when he went on the run and assuming an alias, when he knew a warrant was out for his arrest.  Also, Mitnick was held on a probation violation, and you don't get bail for those (being on probation is your bail).


"We always have to define indecency by what some senator from Nebraska has to say about it, and I think it is something that the individuals have a lot more control over..."

    --- Evil Corley in Hackers '95.  No, you dumbass... it's backwoods liberal senators from New York we should really be worried about.


"In the weeks before Kevin was caught, he knew Markoff was up to something, you know.  We had phone conversations and he was talking about this quite alot.  He was concerned.  If Markoff was his biggest enemy, as he certainly was, because he was definitely helping to catch him, and he was out to write a story about him, and he definitely wasn't on his side..."

    --- Evil Corley in Hackers '95 admitting to aiding and abetting Kevin Mitnick, who was then a wanted felon.


"Well he said, 'Somebody read my email!'  Woooh, that's really scary, that somebody read his email.  I mean, if you're on the run somewhere, and you know someone is after you, and they're helping to try to find you, and you can get into their email system.  I'd like to know what person out there is going to avoid that temptation to look at the email.  I know I certainly would..."

    --- Evil Corley in Hackers '95 talking about Kevin Mitnick reading John Markoff's private email.  Funny isn't it?  These same idiots stomp their feet and pout if the NSA were to look at the email of some foreign terrorist baby killer, but when $2600 Magazine's main cash cow, Kevin Mitnick is doing it - it's O.K.!


"Now what kind of message is this program conveying?  Apparently, it's OK to invade other people's privacy if your intentions are ultimately 'good.'  It sounds like something Reagan would get a kick out of."

    --- Quote from Evil Corley in Vol. 1, No. 3 discussing the TV show Whiz Kids.  Evil Corley's entire defense of Kevin Mitnick was that he was only "doing good."


"Things like this really put into perspective the scope of whats wrong with the legal system in this country.  Wasting time, money, and prison cells on harmless, nonviolent offenders while dangerous criminals go free."

    --- October 21, 1998 posting by John Barleycorn on the "Free Kevin" mailing list.  If you were to steal John Barleycorn personal identification, just like Kevin Mitnick did, he'd be running around screaming "Where's the justice for me!?!"  At least these idiots are not hypocritical...


"Sorry, but I didn't create the character, Kevin [Mitnick] did.  He has now been arrested six times in fifteen years.  Each time, except for this last time, he was given a second chance to get his act together.  He chose not too.  It seems to me that he is an adult and makes choices.  He chose to keep breaking in to computers.  He knew what the penalty was.  So what's the problem?"

    --- John Markoff in an online The WELL discussion with author Charles Platt about Kevin Mitnick's "most wanted" status.


"That's an interesting concept, one worthy of further analysis.  Last time Mitnick got in trouble, he was paid $25,000 by a movie studio for an option to the rights to his movie.  Nowadays, he'll probably be offered five times that for the ultimate movie - I'd say that he'll be well-paid for his talents, what about you?"

    --- March 5, 1995 USENET posting by Collect Call Mojo (Brad J. McElvain).


"Don't harass the people that walk by..."

    --- Evil Corley in Freedom Downtime ($30) admitting that their demonstration in New York did, in fact, violate other people's constitutional rights.  Believe it or not, some people have these things called "jobs" they have to get to.  They can't just sell old BBS files like you do.


"... nothing more serious than lying on the telephone about who he was, and copying software which he never tried to sell or even distribute."

    --- Evil Corley in Freedom Downtime ($30) telling yet another lie.  Kevin Mitnick called Mark Lotter in October 1994 and offered to trade him stolen Motorola firmware for access to Lottor's Oki 900 CTEK software.


"... It not like they didn't try, but most of the shit said about these phones has been blatantly wrong.  How many times has Joe Kiddie read 2600 (btw, did Emmanuel touch your bum?) and heard about these mysterious phones?"

    --- Ned Ludd in Collusion E-Zine, Volume 36.


"After the picture was taken, Emmanuel invited BadGer to his room for some private time"

    --- Quote from a picture of Evil Corley and "BadGer" (Blake) while at DEFCON 8.  LOL!


"Eventually the #hack chick will graduate to 2600 meetings in her area and will eventually meet Emmanuel.  For obscured reasons women feel safe around him."

    --- Excerpt from 't3' in FEH, Issue #3.


"Eric Corley is the editor of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and detests being called by his real name (so I always do so).  His pseudonym is Emmanuel Goldstein."

    --- Excerpt from Bits of Morality by Mich E. Kabay, PhD.


"Founded in 1823 by the well known pedophile and lemonparty regular, Eric Gorden Corley, 2600 is the longest surviving poser magazine in existence.  The magazine is published in the zine format, not because it is edgy and hip, as its producers would like you to believe; rather, because it is written for and by 13 year old boys and faggots."

    --- Funny excerpt from the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry for "2600."  The only thing technically inaccurate is the 1823 date!


"France and Germany, and many other countries, require U.S. companies to register their encryption key for reasons of national security.  All the American transmissions are monitored and the data is passed onto the local competitors.  Companies like IBM finally began to routinely transmit false information to their French subsidiary just to thwart the French Secret Service..."

    --- Evil Corley discussing the book Friendly Spies (Amazon Entry) on Off The Hook, February 24, 1993.  Interesting, isn't it?  Evil Corley and the One Percent sure buried that one.


"i forgot to include something in that last post that was pretty relevant.  most countries in the civilized world have abolished the death penalty.  but there are a number who still execute people.  the united states is the *only industrialized nation* that is increasing its use and recent legislation has called for it to be applied to crimes other than murder, such as drug importing.  it doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see where this could head.  check out www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/dp to learn more."

    --- Evil Corley in a post to $2600's "Free Kevin" mailing list.  Corley must be in full mental breakdown mode here.  No "drug importer" has ever been giving the death penalty and "Amnesy International" is a complete joke that no properly educated person actually believes.  I wonder if Corley will ever mention that our prisons are filled with thousands of non-U.S. citizens in which their host countries refuse to take them back?  And you thought Corley actually looked out for the little guy!  Hah!


"... No evidence ever surfaced of any pay phone conversions, but none of this ever got printed.  Kevin's name was enough to convict him, regardless of actual evidence."

"One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak.  When he'd attempt to make a call from home, he'd get a message telling him to deposit a dime, because the telephone company switch received input that indicated he was calling from a pay phone."

    --- Evil Corley (top quote) in Freedom Downtime ($30) and Kevin Mitnick (bottom quote) in The Art of Deception - the "forbidden" chapter.  You know a scam is getting way out-of-hand when the jerks running it can't even tell the same lies!


"No idea?  Isn't this what the entire book, series of articles, and now the film are supposedly based on, what Kevin actually did?  I was amazed by what he didn't know.  But there was more that he did know, and had never talked about before."

    --- Evil Corley in Freedom Downtime ($30) interviewing John Markoff about how he knew Kevin Mitnick was responsible for helping plan the attack on Tsutomu Shimomura's computer.  Kevin Mitnick admits it was him, "jsz," and a few others from #hack in this interview.  Demand that Evil Corley apologize to John Markoff at once!


"The fact is, Mr. Mitnick has been less than diligent in reviewing discovery materials."

    --- Prosecutor David Schindler.  Kevin Mitnick intentionally delayed his trial to gain more time for his defense.


"The time Mitnick has spent in jail awaiting trial -- while due partly to his having waived his right to a speedy trial and to delays requested by the defense to gain time to examine the evidence -- is a sore point in the hacker community.  Hackers regard him and others in situations similar to his as political prisoners."

    --- Quote from Hackers to Shake Down Takedown in Wired on July 15, 1998.


"But let me just say that Mitnick was not simply exploring technology.  He was using his hacking skills to obtain information illegally and then in turn sell it to the P.I. firm he was working for.  And that's not the whole of it, he was up to his neck in hacking.  The FBI isn't interested in prosecuting curious hackers.  While I was working with them we passed up hundreds of potential cases.  They were only interested in seriously criminal hackers.  Mitnick was fully aware that what he was doing was illegal, and he knew they would fry him if he got caught again.  Keep in mind he has been busted 4 TIMES!  Frankly I think it's great that people support him, and yes I think the sentence they want to give him is ludicrous.  But, put it into perspective, Mitnick is a criminal, he is not innocent, and there is no justification for his acts.  If you want to admire and support him that is your decision, just do so understanding who he is and what he has done.  Mitnick is not a saint."

    --- November 24, 1998 posting by Agent Steal (Justin T. Petersen) on the "Free Kevin" mailing list.  If you were to steal, and profit from, Evil Corley's personal identification - you'd never hear the end of it!  He'd probably also want you in jail.


"As of now, Kevin's attorney hasn't retained an expert witness to help expedite Kevin's review of the encrypted evidence in his case (which the court said months ago that he can now view, but he still hasn't seen any of it)."

    --- November 13, 1998 posting by Kerry McElwee on the "Free Kevin" mailing list.  Apparently, Kevin Mitnick's legal team seems too stupid to understand modern computer technology.


"'The court wants to go to trial,' she told Mitnick and his attorney, echoing her previous statement that she was 'very, very anxious [to] try this case.'"

    --- U.S. District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer expressed her disapproval with the request for a delay.  All that whining in Freedom Downtime ($30) about trial delays was actually Mitnick's own fault.  Gotta sell those T-shirts!


"No, man.  They're like five bucks a pop now, and that extra two bucks cuts into my Smash the State fund.  F*CK THE MAN, STEAL 2600!!!

2600 was officially dead when they pulled their 'VOTE NADER' bullshit in the last election, followed by raking the dirt over their own grave with the anti-second amendment stand they took a year or two after that.  Yes, there may be aspects of politics that touch on aspects of hacking, but quite frankly it's not up to them to tell people how to think.

And apart from that...  The quality of their articles is in the toilet.  OMG, ANOTHER 'HOW TO F*CK WITH ____' ARTICLE!!!  OMG, I'LL BE SO K-K-K-K-K-KEWL WHEN I BUST OUT OF THE DEMO SHELL ON THE COMPAQS IN BEST BUY & TYPE 'format c: /y' AT A COMMAND PROMPT!!!  OMG, I'M A HIZAXOR!@!!caca!#@#~!"

    --- Some hilarious comments about $2600 Magazine posted on the DEFCON forums by 'skroo.'


"Because it's three hours of self-aggrandising crap.  That's pretty much all there is to know."

    --- Comment about why Freedom Downtime ($30) sucks posted on the DEFCON forums by 'skroo.'


"[ No wonder they didn't show it at Defcon... ]"

"Actualy, we didn't show it at Defcon cuz Emmanuel is a big crybaby.  He wanted it shown when we were showing 'Enemy of the State' and when we told him 'no, we're showing enemy of the state then, we'll show it tomorrow' he got all huffy and bailed.

Then when we went to show it the next day, we couldn't find it.  Guess he took his football and went home.

But you didn't miss anything.  I actualy really was looking forward to seeing it at ToorCon 2 years ago, but afterwards I can't figure out why.  It's mainly 3 hours of Emmanuel and his self indulgant crap.  Whoever made the wannabe 'Michael Moore' comment was spot on.  I hadn't been able to put my finger on it, but you pegged it."

    --- Comment about why Freedom Downtime ($30) sucks posted on the DEFCON forums by 'noid.'


"Besides Kevin taking credit for other peoples work on occasion, and his relentless self promotion, he had total dedication to his goals.  Need to see if you are being investigated?  Break into the telco office of the person doing the investigating and root through their file cabinet!  Sometimes having no fear and taking big risks pays off and creates legends.

The Federal prosecutor, Christopher Painter, who prosecuted Kevin later went on to help draft the US Strategy for Cyber Space and working at the State Department on global policy issues.  The stories he tells about that prosecution is pretty comical."

    --- March 15, 2021 comment from Dark Tangent on Kevin Mitnick's book Ghost in the Wires.


"onfusion as to which fundraiser is still going on, a rundown of premiums, the length of time the show has been on the air, a hostage crisis at the '2600 Building' in Phoenix, a call for HOPE network volunteers to come to the 2600 meeting this Friday, the ease with which people fall into the security mentality, remembering when everyone in the room first got involved in the show, a 30 minute collage of some of the many highlights of 'Off The Hook' since 1988, the show won't be on next week, how listeners can participate in the program's future, the importance of young listeners.  This show includes fundraising."

    --- Description of Off The Hook on March 1, 2006.  Gotta brainwash those young victims... err... "listeners."


"I am posting this anonymously, because I deal with several, 'high level' members of 2600 on a regular basis.  I have found that these members, including Emmanuel Goldstein (aka Eric Corley) are a bunch of self important people, who think their opinion is always correct.  I also, have not had one good experience with other members.  Again, they refuse to believe they could ever be wrong, and speak in a condescending manner to all those not in the 2600 'clique'.  Mod me down if you want, but this is a true synopsis of my experiences with the 2600 'hackers'."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"Agreed 100%.  Most of the stuff in 2600 is crap, especially the political articles.  If I want to read left wing propaganda I'd pick up the NY Times (or check politics.slashdot.org).

The articles in Phrack are a step above the few technical articles in 2600 these days."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"Being sued by the MPAA was the best thing that ever happened to 2600.  They could finally take a little break from rehashing Mitnick folklore and retro infosec concepts ('OMG, some companies could still be vulnerable to wardialing!!11 here's a 1perl wardialer; HACK THE PLANET')."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"Right you are.  I'm a life time subscriber, but with some of the content anymore - especially the letters - just pains me to read it.  Once in a while there will be a good 'hacker'-worthy article.  But most of the time it's 'how do I get around right-click suppression using Internet Explorer?'  Please."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"I had to quit reading 2600 when, shortly after the DeCSS trial, Emmanual started abstracting himself out of all the stories, replacing all the 'I's with 'we's.  He also quit signing his name to them.

Before, he wrote nearly all the stories.  After that, it was all, 'We here at 2600...'.  Yeah right.  Maybe it's more professional, but to me, it took away all the personality and passion from the writing."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"I'm a journalist, and I can honestly tell you that almost any self respecting tech writer would gag if he found out that his prose had been published in 2600 (probably next to some bluetooth snarfing script)."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"Yeah, but 2600 has always sucked compared to Phrack.  Calling it Phrack-lite would be an insult to Phrack."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"Anyone who's been a long time reader of 2600 can see that its dying a slow death...  The quality of articles has declined significantly over the years with the letters section being the largest part of the mag now.  I used to get it to learn now its just filled with letters with stupid questions from newbs fiction and articles that seem more like some kids report for a class they had in highschool then actual technical knowledge.  It might have something to offer to people new to the scene but after a certain point you out grow it.  Now when ever I pick it up I just keep thinking about how it used to be..  But who knows maybe the Slashdot effect will get it some much needed press and some actual tech articles again.."

    --- Comment posted on Slashdot.org


"I worked for the company whose RT Programming Consultant owned the Well Account that led to your capture.  Did you know anything about the account and its owner?  Why/How did you choose it?  Did you check the volume and type of traffic that was on the account before you decided to run tarballs through it?  Would it have deterred you to know how well connected he was with some of the top networking and security professionals working in the Bay Area at the time?  Were you surprised how quickly the FBI appeared at your motel while you were still downloading?  Do your current security services customers know how sloppy you were when you were captured?"

...

"At last year's Defcon, you crashed the EFF Summit party, having waited until they were backed up at the door and very busy to force your way through the door and into the party.  Shortly thereafter you were escorted out and you stuck around the front of the party where they had not the privileged to force you to vacate the area.  Afterwards you engaged many involved in the charity event on twitter where you claimed to have been 'in' the party for over two hours, were called out and subsequently harassed those that did so.  Initially you seemed to just block those that had negative things to say about you, but it quickly turned into you calling some at work and harassing them.  My question for you; As a felon, do you sometimes worry that playing games with other hackers will get you into trouble?"

...

"'All he wanted to do was get into corporate sites, download code, play with the code and then move on to the next target.'

No, all he wanted to do was steal cellphone service and other services.  Mitnick was not some grand hacker, he at that time was simply a petty thief that had skills that others did not.  He was after the next big score or what would give him something for nothing.  Why does everyone paint him to be some kind of leader for freedom and the Hacking Society.  Most of us that were in the scene at that time and before did not have much respect for him.  He is not the Hacker Poster boy.  He was treated unfairly in the courts and legal system."

    --- A few amusing comments and questions from the "Ask Kevin Mitnick" posting in August 2011 on Slashdot.


"... Because it appeared in the Associated Press, they have made it fact that he engaged in a multi-million dollar crime wave.  When in actuality he's been indicted for things, that ahh... that no way can you say this is multi-million dollar, you know, copying a file - it just isn't.  But you know... as long as they can say this in the Associated Press, people will start believing it."

    --- Evil Corley on Off The Hook June 24, 1997.  Interesting episode.  Where does Corley get the money for his satellite/cable TV/HBO subscriptions?  Also note he talks about "cracking" the satellite system.


"He's been in prison since February of 1995.  That's a long time, for somebody who didn't steal anything, didn't hurt anybody, just basically played around with computers and phones.  Which is very long time, and no end in sight."

    --- Evil Corley on Off The Hook June 24, 1997.  Didn't hurt anybody?  Didn't steal anything?  Haha!


"Thanks for the support.  We also support the knowledge you were trying to get out before your site was shutdown.  If enough people maintain pressure on the SPA and their tactics, they will wither away.  It is their destiny."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 15, No. 1.


"... It's all selective enforcement spiked with greed, fear, and revenge.  In other words, it's not a pretty place to be.  But the outcome of this battle is going to be significant."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 20, No. 4 discussing software piracy.


"Think about what happens when someone tries this tactic on us.  We wind up getting more support than ever before from people and places we never would have been in touch with ordinarily.  By attempting this on others, you're opening up the same type of support for them.  In other words, you'll be making them stronger.  You should have the ability to counter hate speech with words and logic, rather than resorting to desperate measures.  You need to be attacking the cause of the problem, not just the symptoms.  The assumption that shutting down sites is what hackers are all about simply strengthens the inaccurate mass media perception of us.  Any idiot can use brute force to try and shut someone up.  Let's hope that we're all a few steps above that."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 22, No. 1.


"Keep up the good work and don't let those corporate giants try and bully you...  The bigger they are the more they bitch... errr, harder they fall."

    --- Letter from "RevZer0" in $2600 Magazine Vol. 18, No. 1.  Thank you for your support.


"The thing is, 2600 has prided itself over the years as challenging authority.  When someone threatens us with a lawsuit, we print the letter and that usually stops it, or we just continuing doing it anyway because there is nothing illegal about it, and we don't respond well to threats."

    --- Evil Corley speaking at Beyond HOPE during the "$2600 Staff" panel.  We didn't respond very well to that either.


"Why is it perfectly legal to post a diagram of how to build a bomb on the net, but you can't post a code that descrambles DVDs?"

    --- March 3, 2001 edition of the cartoon Boondocks.  Why can't you post scans of back issues of $2600 Magazine either?


"We are also lowering the price of our back issues.  With every issue we stockpile, we lose more space so we'd really like to get rid of the damn things.  You can now get back issues for $20 per year or $5 per issue from 1988 on."

    --- Excerpt from an advertisement in $2600 Magazine Vol. 16, No. 4.  If they take up so much space, why not just put them on the Internet?  Oh...  Wait...  You need the money for your satellite TV, DSL, NAMBLA payments, etc.


"Since we are non-profit, it really doesn't matter to us if you Xerox your copy and send it to someone else - all we ask is that you let us know so that we can have a rough idea of how many people we're reaching."

    --- Excerpt from the first editorial in $2600 Magazine Vol. 1, No. 1.  Oh, a few thousand or so a month...


"Lets just hope this common sense approach becomes more of a standard."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 19, No. 4 about copying TV shows.  They are just a little bit hypocritical!


"... But equating copying an image on a website with theft only minimizes what real thieves do."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 21, No. 3.


"Mr. Corley's nom de guerre is taken from George Orwell's 1984.  Mr. Corley asserts that, like Orwell's fictional Goldstein, he is being persecuted for trying to expose Big Brother--here, for Big Brother's intrusion into the Internet.  Incidently, Mr. Corley is the publisher of Hacker's Quarterly, an online magazine for computer hackers.  While the title sounds ominous, Mr. Corley claims that the magazine's mission is to enhance the protection of confidential materials by exposing weak encryption methods before 'crackers' i.e., hackers with criminal intent) do something worse. As expounded in an CNN interview, Mr. Corley's view is that '[w]hile you may resent the fact that some 14-year-old from Topeka proved your security sucks, think of what could have happened had you not learned of this and had someone else done it instead.'"

    --- Excerpt from the Ford-vs-2600 trial (Case No. 01-CV-71685-DT).  Makes you wonder who the real "Big Brother" is, doesn't it?  Note they mention the character "Goldstein" is fictional.  Also note the Freudian slip of mentioning a teenage boy.  Hmm....


"Finally there was also the time I got the [IRC] logs about Emmanuel and his involvement with some loser hack chick and her teenage boyfriend.  Or, let me rephrase.  Her aspirations for him and his aspirations for her boyfriend.  Ahem.  Making that motd was probably the only moral thing B1tchez.Org ever did."

    --- Quote from B1tchez.Org.

"Most stations even that are live have folks that screen the calls and make sure you fit whatever point that the host wants to portray, be it agreement, or like the loony disagreement, or whatever it is that the host wants.  That's what you hear.  On WBAI we don't even really know how to do that..."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on March 1st, 2006.  Oh, I think they know exactly how to do that.


"There are attacks going on left and right on freedom of speech.  Right now it's taking place on computer hackers and other 'adventurers' who discover things that perhaps ... are best left undiscovered in the eyes of some."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on July 22, 1992.  Oh, you better believe we discovered some things $2600 Magazine doesn't want uncovered!


"If you listen to the program you know what we mean.  You know that knowledge is power and lot of people want to keep knowledge out of the hands of common people, like us.  We're here to prove them wrong and also spread a little bit of that knowledge."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on August 5, 1992.  What a bunch of hypocrites.


"The most important thing, though, is to get the information out."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 6, No. 3.  No...  The most important thing is to keep Evil Corley six-digit a year salary going.


/*
** Submission By: NYC2600
**
** Like our great leader, this kernel module
** selects a child and touches him in a very special
** way. One of the best things about being a community
** leader is you can get away with depraved sexual acts
** with teenagers and no one will question it.
**
*/

    --- Funny quote from the Emmanuel Goldstein LKM article as featured in PHC's Phrack Magazine, Issue #62.


 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Top Ten Reasons why..You shouldn't leave small children alone with
   Emmanuel Goldstein.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

10) He isn't down with the posse, although he think's he is
9)  He seems a little too friendly
8)  He likes little boys
7)  His nick is jewish
6)  so1o said so
5)  He appeared on "The Learning Channel" inbetween when
    speedy and gonzolez showed you how to get free AOL
    and how to generate credit card numbers
4)  He published an arcticle on how to steal (*gasp*)
3)  He was an english major
2)  Do you know how hard it is to get rid of head lice?
1)  HE'S A FUCKIN CHILD MOLESTER YOU DUMB CUNT!@^&%$@%

    --- Funny quote from Confidence Remains High, Issue #8 (March 1998).


"Oh that's easy... Just don't goto HOPE, it's not like you'll miss anything important."

    --- Funny comment from "HighWiz" on the DEFCON forums.


"i dunno if you were being sarcastic or not, but the '2600 conventions' and the people in them have very little to do with the 'hacking subculture'"

    --- Quote from "masterkief" under the Reddit post Is the hacking subculture dying?  LOL!


"If you really want to go down this road, consider that the U.S. is currently using something called the MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) against Iraq.  (It was tested earlier this year in Florida.)  And if that's not biblical enough for you..."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 20, No. 1.  The "MOAB" bomb was never used in Iraq.


"I recently was in New York City attending HOPE6, which is supposed to be a hackers conference.  Quite honestly, I wasn't too impressed with the overall quality of the talks that went on.  Sure a few good moments arose now and then, but ladies and gentlemen, the majority of it was nothing to write home about.  I'm not saying I didn't have a good time.  I'm just saying, the content of the speakers should have been leading-edge, or at least interesting.  Topics like, 'hacking the metra swipe card' and 'hacking coupons' were just flat out lame.  Perhaps next time I'll drink more and attend less of the speeches. :-)"

    --- Quote from "login" in the newOrder Newsletter, Issue #14.


"... they really didn't have much of a choice ... it's the resonant frequency of a water molecule."

    --- False comment at HOPE Number Six during the "Radio Communications for Hackers" panel discussing the frequency band that microwave ovens operate on.  Uhh...  No!  The 2.45 GHz frequency microwave ovens operate on has nothing to do with "resonating water molecules," they operate via dielectric absorption.


"Actually, he has been seen doing the same things in public.  People notice it at meetings, and warn other teenagers.  A certain person named Hitman from NYC 2600 mention to someone to watch out for Emmanuel.  The kid went back to Emmanuel and had Hitman banned from HOPE 6.  I have always wonder where to of the teenagers that alway hung out with Emmanuel went.  RedHackt and Mr.Ohm disappeared from the scene after being close friends with Emmanuel."

"Maybe he was taken into custody because he was molested by Emmanuel Goldstein who is a suspected Pedophile."

"What is wrong with you people?  It's perfectly normal for a young boy to sleep in the same bed with a grown man."

"Probably just a ploy so that the Hope conference won't look so lame (as always) when compared to next week's Defcon conference"

    --- Some very interesting comments on the "Steve Rambam" arrest at HOPE Number Six which were posted in the Washington Post blog.


"Suddenly pedophilia's relevant.  I'll give this some context.  All day friday and possibly all day saturday, (I can only vouch for friday) there seemed to be a team of legit journalists interviewing each panelist right after they got off the stage.  Except they were using a huge VHS camera.  And they weren't claiming to be a college class.  yadda yadda.  So anyhow it seems that each interview started out seeming quite legit but all of a sudden one of the lines of questioning became, 'do you have any evidence that Capn Crunch is a child molestor?  How about Emmanuel, I hear he hangs out with young boys.'  Then all of a sudden there are people all over here, all over the 2600.com irc chat, all over the slashdot threads spreading innuendo about Cap'n Crunch and Emmanuel."

    --- Some comments about $2600 Magazine, HOPE, "Captain Crunch," Steve Rombom, etc. which are posted at http://jewishdefense.org/rombom/.


"Two reputed Jewish Defense League members were arrested yesterday on charges of grabbing three teenage trick-or-treaters on a Brooklyn street, assaulting them with baseball bats and fists and imprisoning them in a car, police said.

Ronald Kahn, 30, of E. 17th St., and Steven Rombom, 24, of E. 18th St. were charged with unlawful imprisonment and assault after they were identified by the trick-or-treaters as two of their four assailants, police said.  The other two are still being sought, police said.

The teenagers were grabbed by a group of men near Congregation Beth Torah Synagogue, 1060 Ocean Parkway, about 10:30 p.m.  They were beaten and thrown from a car at E. Eighth St. and Avenue I, said police who took them to Kings County Hospital.  They were treated there for scrapes and bruises.

Washington Cemetery, across the street from the synagogue has been a target of Halloween vandals in the past, according to area residents."

    --- Excerpt from Tricksters Beaten; 2 Nabbed.  The loony jewish supremacist, and domestic terrorist, Steve Rambam (a.k.a. Steve Rombom) is a regular guest at HOPE and on Off The Hook.  There is more about this incident, and Rombom's other threats against people's lives, in the August 22, 1989 Village Voice article titled "Oy Vey, Make My Day."


"Well, the one I'm most proud of, I was named one of the 25 best investigators of the century by the - the last century, I guess, by the National Association of Investigative Specialists, which is 5,000 investigators."

    --- Blatantly false quote from Steve Rambam (Steve Rombom) testifying to his credentials in a case before the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles (BC154006).  The NAIS doesn't even have 5,000 members and 22 of their "Top 25" are still alive!  (Original)


"If [Steve] Rombom were tried and convicted as an adult, he would be subject technically, but not realistically, to a maximum term of imprisonment well over a hundred years."

    --- Quote from the United States District Court, S. D. New York, 1976 discussing Steve Rombom's loony jewish supremacist and Jewish Defense League domestic terrorist activities in the 1970s.  (Original)

    
Steve Rombom will KILL you if you're the wrong race.

"There's Irv Rubin.  He's like the head of the JDL [Jewish Defense League]...

I tell Mitnick I found his childhood mentor, Irv Rubin, the head of the radical Jewish Defense League in Los Angeles.  'Oh, from the JDL' Mitnick says, surprised.  'He doesn't know too much about me as a hacker - just as a normal person involved with them back when I was a kid.  My stepfather at the time was heavy into that.'"

What kinda things would you do?

'Shooting,' Mitnick says.'

'I remember participating in the marches,' recalls the hacker.  'I knew the guy that actually bombed one of these air places and then he had to skip off to Israel.'"

    --- Quote by Kevin Mitnick in Jonathan Littman's book The Fugitive Game.  Note the "skip off to Israel" line.  This is why the feds thought Mitnick was a flight risk.  BTW, do you think as one of the "world's top 25" detectives, (((Steve Rombom))) will track down that bomber/terrorist who fled to Israel?  LOL!


"Steven Rombom was a particularly tragic example of the sort of psychopaths [Meir] Kahane attracted to the JDL (Jewish Defense League).  The violence-prone youth, who, according to court records spent eight years in psychiatric institutions from the age of six, joined the JDL when he was twelve years old over the frantic objections of his doctors and social workers."

    --- Quote from Robert I. Friedman discussing the mental state of Steve Rombom.  A few years after emerging from his confinement, Steve Rombom and his loony JDL buddies went on a wave of domestic terrorist attacks within the United States.  This is all documented by Robert I. Friedman in his book The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane, From FBI Informant to Knesset Member.


"<b>Eric Corley</b> is a child molestor and attention whore who exploits the computer [[hacker]] community to further his own interests, and goes by the name '[[Emmanuel Goldstein]]', after the leader of the underground in [[George Orwell]]'s classic, '[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'."

    --- Some hacker hero edits the Eric Gordon Corley Wikipedia page - and it wasn't me!!!!


"In a crowded East Village restaurant called Mekka, Emmanuel Goldstein, 38, is quietly eating chicken wings at a table with nine raucous guys, most of them teen-agers."

    --- Excerpt from the June 4, 1998 New York Times article New York Hackers See Breaking Into Computers as a Healthy Thing.  Also note the various quotes in this article about "fighting pedophiles" on the Internet.  This is actually just an excuse for Manny to have pictures of young naked boys on his computer.


"So let any little kids sit on your lap lately?"

"Ya know I hear child molestion is in vogue now.  Care to comment?"

    --- December 10, 1993 USENET reply from Chris Fisher to a "Captain Crunch" (John Draper) alt.2600 post.


"'You should try one of my body tune-ups,' says [John] Draper.  'It's a great energy boost.'  Indeed, he spends a good deal of time at the conference enticing young attendees back to his hotel room, where he offers full-contact 'stretching' sessions."

    --- Quote in Hello, My Name Isn't ... from "Captain Crunch" (John Draper) while at H2K.  Some good info on Draper's activities in this Reddit thread.


"... he won't give his handle - spent over $3,000 on a loft in Chelsea, insurance and other expenses, with plans to stage a $25-a-head orgy.  Instead, he says, 'the FBI investigated us; we were going to let some 17-year-olds come, so we were crossing a state line with the intent of having sex with a minor.'"

    --- Another quote in Hello, My Name Isn't ... about the gay pedophiles at H2K.


"... twenty-some years later he showed up in the San Francisco rave scene, a wild-looking man with gray hair and majorly f*cked-up teeth as a result of his prison experience.  He would stay up for days dancing and partying -- 'high on the energy', he said -- and trying to seduce young rave boys."

    --- Old quote about regular HOPE attendee "Captain Crunch" on 666.com.


"And as for family values, they're just fine as long as they stay in the family and aren't forced down our throats.  We're sure you see the unfairness of special interest groups."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 14, No. 4.  These same hypocritical idiots are trying to force faggot rights down people's throats, along with their Marxist "we all are equal" nonsense so they can keep (((Democrats))) in power.  They also have a radio program on a 50,000 watt RF radio station - in New York City & funded by billionaires - which only broadcasts their biased One Percent coverage of world events!


"Founded in 1960, the Committees for Defense of the Revolution (CDR) expanded over the next decade to include almost a third of the adult population.  Immediately after Castro's endorsement of the crushing of the Prague Spring, the CDRs, acting on instructions from the DGI, arranged for a series of 'spontaneous' demonstrations to support his speech.  Cuba thus developed a vast system of social control similar to, but more conspicuous than, those operated by the KGB and its European allies.  By the late 1960s, Castro was using the CDRs to dictate even the length of men's hair and women's dresses.  In November 1968 the parents of long-haired youths and miniskirted girls where summoned to appear before the local authorities.  Castro had a particular dislike of homosexuals and instructed that they 'should not be allowed in positions where they are able to exert an influence on young people.'  Gays were routinely refused tenancies in new housing projects and frequently singled out for service in forced-labour units."

    --- Excerpt from The World Was Going Our Way - The KGB and the Battle for the Third World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.  Haha!  Evil Corley's hero, Fidel Castro, hates long-haired queers!


"In 1990, a gay Cuban who said he was abused by government officials in his homeland won asylum in the first significant ruling of its kind in the U.S.  That ruling became the basis for then-Attorney General Janet Reno's 1994 order allowing gays from other countries to seek asylum for persecution based on sexual orientation."

    --- Notice that in Evil Corley's pro-Castro rants, he never mentions that gay Cubans have to swim 90 miles north for freedom.


"A popular payphone kiosk in Havana.  And that's not an ad for sneakers in the background."

    --- Payphone picture in $2600 Magazine Vol. 18, No. 4.  No, but it is government sponsored propaganda.  It has to kill Evil Corley that after the Soviet Union fell, we learned that his little "Cuban Revolutionaries" were nothing more than puppets for Russian imperial expansion in Central and South America.


"Before joining Gist, David Ruderman designed software for web sites including Time, Money, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly.  At Time Warner's Pathfinder site, he developed web applications for community building, text retrieval, and content management.  He has developed electronic books for Times Mirror, and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dave even worked on one of the first human-genome databases.  In 1984, Dave co-founded the hacker zine 2600.  He earned his Master Degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holds a Bachelor Degree in Biology."

"Gist Communications is backed by Neptuno G.m.b.H., a subsidiary of Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Compagnie, a private bank based in Cologne, Germany.  Neptuno's initial investment was several million dollars."

    --- September 16, 1996 quote in the New York Times about GIST Communications.  David Ruderman, one of the co-founders of $2600 Magazine, is GIST's Vice President of Technology - and is really smart, and rich...


"[Jello] Biafra has spent large amounts of time and money on attorney fees and court costs.  He continues to spend money on his appeal.  Although he lives in a 1.1-million-dollar house in the hills of San Francisco, he is asking others for donations to pay for his appeal.  The appeal will nevertheless reaffirm the court Judgment against him.  These resources could be used to maintain his record label, Alternative Tentacles.  But by continuing with his expensive, failing and misguided legal maneuvers, Alternative Tentacles may very well go under."

    --- Quote about Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) from his fellow bandmates.  Jello is a keynote feature at just about every HOPE conference.  Baa... Baa... little sheep!  You just paid $100 to watch a gay millionaire rock star tell you how to think!


"The effects are said to feel like being dipped in molten lava.  This is incredibly scary stuff."

    --- Excerpt from $2600 Magazine Vol. 23, No. 4 discussing the U.S. military's Active Denial System (ADS).  At 95 GHz the wavelength is only 3 mm and the penetration depth is only about 1/10 of that due to dielectric absorption by the skin.  Also, when it hits your eyes, it causes you to blink, and the "pain ray" is absorbed by your eyelids.  A consumer microwave oven that doesn't shut off when the door is opened is actually more dangerous, as they operate with a higher duty cycle at 2.45 GHz.  This frequency has a longer wavelength, which results in much deeper tissue penetration - YOU STUPID IDIOTS!


"...just knowing how strange 'zod's' [Shawn Perlman] parents were, I wouldn't be too sure who to believe.  First of all, it's well known that his mom sort of thought that they were the 'Manson gang', 'coming to kill her and her family'.  A normal assumption, no?  Secondly, judging by the frequency at which 'zod' told the truth half the time, I wouldn't be so quick to believe.  And lastly, Delaney arrested me in Jan 1991.  No guns (certainly not shotguns), and I'm a bit bigger than 'zod'.  Cuffs though, there were cuffs.  And don't forget, the idea of shotguns to sustain a 14 year old naked kid sounded just scrumptious to the media.

Also, the majority of individuals in my home in December were from the FBI, not the SS (only a couple SS), and if you've ever been at the Marshall's office, it appears that they ARE in it for the glamor and glitz, at least some of them from their suits and slicked hair-cuts (and attitudes).  And attitude was no stranger, one December morning..."

    --- Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) posting on one of the MindVox forums, July 30, 1992.  The discussion is about if shotguns were actually drawn during the infamous "hacker" raids during the early 1990s.  Donald Delaney insists it didn't happen like you see in the movies.  Funny, isn't it?  Evil Corley always complains about the media's lies against hackers, but then he's the one who is out pushing the same lies in order to sell a few issues of his little magazine.


"Bahahaha, 'being screwed over by ignorance', that sounds like Phiber - listening to one to many of your speeches about this B.S. that you personally have nothing on the line for except your unaffected 6-digits a year salary is what got him in jail into he first place, along with 4 of his (former) friends who could've taken the deal the feds gave them of pleading early and doing no jail time had it not been for your grandiose BS which made him hold off and plead guilty like he would've done anyway though w/o time.  Funny how such an advocate for the people whose issues sell more than Esquire magazine pays his teenage writers nothing and takes a photo of every attendee at HOPE, tying up the line to pay the $20+ entrance fee for hours.  'The photos were erased on a Hard Drive crash' - hah!"

    --- November 27, 1994 USENET reply by the user "Presto" to one of Evil Corley's propaganda posts.


"Wow.  Today was great.  I started it off by going to the St. Patrick's Day parade this morning.  It was pretty cool.  Some of the marching bands were fairly impressive.  Actually, all of them were impressive.  It's just that some gave me a really creepy feeling.  Like the high school with the rifle twirlers.  Or the one with all the bagpipe players.  Oh and the Junior ROTC is ... f'ed up.  They have these 10 year olds marching around in friggin soldier uniforms.  That's... just great."

    --- Comment from the blog of RedHackt (Mark Tabry), one of Evil Corley's many "boytoys."  Good example of the manufactured fear $2600 Magazine uses to scare their little following.  Shouldn't your problem be with Emmanuel getting teenaged boys drunk at HOPE and sleeping with them?  It's also fitting that "10 year olds" more know about our Constitutional rights than the mayor of New York City...


"Derp...  I vote for the same (((people))) over and over and over and over and over and over again!
Fight the power!"

"Well, I'm at home in Eastchester, getting ready to vote in the early AM.  Of course, I can rest easy in the fact that my vote doesn't really count for anything.  If it did, Bush and Kerry would be making campaign stops in New York, not bum-f*ck swing states in the Midwest.
...
It's not that I don't like [John] Kerry, or want him to win New York, I just feel like my vote is being watered down by this whole electoral college system.  It's abolishment is one amendment I'd like to see added to the Constitution, instead of the religious right mind-vomit that George Bush spews out.  Maybe if Kerry wins, I'll write him a letter about it."

    --- Another comment from the blog of RedHackt (Mark Tabry), one of Evil Corley's many "boy toys."  The electoral college system allows all the states in the U.S. to have an equal say in presidential elections.  It is actually a well thought out system, and is what prevents states like Wisconsin from becoming crime-ridden, third-world crapholes like New York.  BTW, how are all those surveillance video cameras working out?  If you want to talk about spewing "vomit," you may want to listen to a few episodes of Off The Hook.  Also notice how it is always someone else's fault - a classic feature of the $2600 Magazine crew.


"If you can put it on a t-shirt, it's speech."

    --- August 1, 2000 Slashdot posting about the DeCSS case.  Does that also include IRC logs of Emmanuel chatting-up teenaged boys?


"We do not believe in cover-ups.  By not printing that bit of ugliness, we would have been doing just that..."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 5, No. 3.  Haha!


"You are, and always have been, a monument to free speech and the free transfer of information, Viva 2600!"

    --- Letter from "Mobius" in $2600 Magazine Vol. 19, No. 3.  Uhh...  Buddy...  What exactly have you been reading?


"The average citizen will accept almost anything if it will help to fight drugs or child pornography.  And the control freaks will take almost anything they can get their hands on.  Assume it's true and start figuring out how to subvert it now before it overtakes us."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 12, No. 4.  The hypocrites at $2600 Magazine had to shut down the scrolling message banner at The Last HOPE because of all the "child molestation" references.  Heehee...


"During the 802.11b panel the creator of Kismet had Kismet up on the projection screen.  As he talked, SSIDs and IP addresses of all the wireless points showed up.  People realized this and started changing their SSIDs to things such as 'Allyourbase", 'Emmanuel likes little children', 'What you say?' and so forth."

    --- Quote from Jodath Morr about H2K2.  Heehee...  (Renderman's Netstumbler log from H2K2)


"Quit f*cking apologizing for filesharing.  Intellectual property is evil, filesharing is freedom fighting, and the sooner Jack Valenti is bumming quarters for a living, the better.  The question is not how to protect artists, it is how to muster enough force to protect the right to hack."

    --- Nelson Denoon at H2K2.  You can't make this shit up!


"I could care less if that child molesting moron approves or not, the site will stay up and if needed is mirrored on a few other sites if something should happen to this one."

"If it pisses Corley off too then all the better."

    --- Quotes from "Tron" in a June 24, 2004 USENET posting on whether he had Evil Corley's permission to put back issues of $2600 Magazine online.


"As for eric corley, aka emmanuel goldstein, he the biggest peice of shit around, he turns idiots that get themselves caught like kevin and ed cummings, and turn them into martyers for the cause so he can milk it for all its worth on his web page and radio show, and sell his magazine and merchindise, hes nothing but a profiteer.

People who belive or are programmed by idiots like corley into thinking morons that get themselves caught like mitnick, or run a crap magazine that prints outdated articles are some sort of gods, when in reality there just fools."

    --- Quotes from "Tron" in a July 7, 1998 USENET posting on Evil Corley's little charade.


"Goldstein is probably the best-known public representative of the hacker underground today, and certainly the best-hated.  Police regard him as a Fagin, a corrupter of youth, and speak of him with untempered loathing.  He is quite an accomplished gadfly."

    --- Quote from Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown.  No, I think the word you wanted to use was "faggot."


"... But copying music, programs, and magazine articles leads to greater exposure for the artists, developers, and writers.  If your product is not priced out of the reach of your intended audience, it will be in their interest to get an original copy.  But in many cases this is not so and the only way people can even get a glimpse of what is being developed is by making copies."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 13, No. 4.  So... it's O.K. for $2600 Magazine to copy articles or BBS files from other people, but when it starts to effect Evil Corley's own income - it's bad!


"... like we had to play that song before and censor out every other word because the FCC would get upset if they heard those words, for some reason, and that's just the way they are.  Instead of just regulating frequencies and technical specs, they regulate content, which I don't consider to be fair."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on July 23, 1996.  No... the FCC does what the people write in and tell them to do.  This is a perfect example of the sensationalism $2600 Magazine uses to scare their little kiddie followers.  Now, try to get the words "Evil Corley is a pedophile" over WBAI's airwaves once!


"I wish... I wish they would spend as much time checking people out on the way in ... to airplanes, as they do on the way into the country.  Everytime I come into the country, I get all this third degree stuff.  I think it's more important for people getting on to things likes airplanes for them to know where they are coming from and what they are carrying with them.  But they don't really seem to care that much."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on July 23, 1996.  Yes, that is right.  Evil Corley is calling for more airport security and screening!  Notice how he flip-flops with his answers and ideas over the years to taylor his little kiddie following.  Baa... Baa... little sheep.  In the episode of Off The Hook on August 13, 1996 they also talk about the lack of good airport security and metal detectors.


"At some point, we flee after Joe630 demands 'hugs' from us...something he continues throughout the conference.  'Grrrrr...touch me not, boy...I will not submit to your fondling,' I tell him behind clenched teeth as I back out of the room.  'I'll only hug a man if he's buying me drinks or I'm trying to lift his wallet...'"

    --- Article on HoHoCon '94 by Count Zero (John Lester) in Phrack Magazine, Issue #47 describing $2600's own Ben Sherman (Joe630).


"... Please keep your posts relevant to whichever area you're posting in.  We're not going to tolerate abusive posts or threads that degenerate into personal attacks.  Similarly, overtly racist, sexist, or homophobic posts aren't permitted.  And, for obvious reasons, dissemination of illegal stuff (credit card numbers, unauthorized accounts/passwords) has no place here.  Nor should private info on any unwilling person be posted."

    --- Excerpt from the registration information at $2600 Magazine's new online message forums.  Hehehe...  This is not exactly something you'd expect from "freedom of speech" defenders.  All this is, is censorship in disguise...


"It's preciously that kind of thing that I'm very weary about when people say that... ahh... information is property.  It is to a degree, but if you treat it in exactly the same form, obviously there is going to be miscarriages of justice."

    --- Excerpt from Off The Hook on December 11, 1991 talking about how "copying" a file is not really "stealing" a file.  These very same hypocritical idiots will try to sue you for "copying" there little magazine!


"This has always been a frustration for us as well.  Every now and then someone offers to help put together a comprehensive index of our material (letters included) and they almost always run away screaming when they realize just how massive such a project winds up being.  We hope to have some sort of searchable index on our site before too long.  For now, you can always go to the search button at our online store (store.2600.com) and search for topics there."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 23, No. 2.  This webpage is all you'll need.  Come on, print it!


"If we could snap our fingers and have this done, we would love it.  But putting together an index with all the material we have would take an eternity."

    --- Reply to a letter asking about a searchable $2600 Magazine subject index in Vol. 25, No. 3.  No, no it won't!


"Check our web site (www.2600.com) for a full list of stores worldwide that carry 2600.  If you don't have web access, write to us (2600, PO Box 752, Middle Island, NY 11953 USA), enclose $2, and we'll send you a full printout."

    --- Excerpt from the editorial in $2600 Magazine Vol. 15, No. 1.  Holy shit!  They charge $2 for a printout of stores that carry this crap?  No profiteering going on here...


"The numbers for the Nazi boards are 214XXXXXXX and 959XXXXXXX.  If you would like a full printout of all the messages contained on these boards, send $5 to 2600, Box 752, Middle Island, NY 11953-0752."

    --- Excerpt from the Nazi BBS a Challenge To Hackers article in $2600 Magazine Vol. 2, No. 2.  $2600 Magazine would never think about selling someone's old BBS files.  No profiteering going on here...


"If you'd like to see just how easy it really is, send us $7.50 and we'll send you a cassette with all of the codes!  The address is 2600, PO Box 752, Middle Island, NY 11953."

    --- Excerpt from the Simplex/USPS Update article in $2600 Magazine Vol. 8, No. 4.  $2600 Magazine used to sell an audio cassette tape with all the Simplex lock codes on it.  No profiteering going on here...


"Is Club-Mate suitable for vegans and vegetarians?

Yes.  Club-Mate is completely vegan; no animal-derived products are contained in Club-Mate or used in its production."

    --- Excerpt from the Club-Mate FAQ, the latest $2600 cash-cow.  The entire planet Earth is made up of "products" derived from dead animals.  Is Corley really this stupid?  (Hacking Club-Mate: Page 1, Page 2, Additional Info)


"Regardless, we hope they stop trying to intimidate individuals who were merely expressing an opinion on a page that was asking for just that.  As for our copy of the hacked web page - it's news.  It's history.  And it's staying.  Praise The Web."

    --- Excerpt from a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 15, No. 2 asking them to remove a web page from their site.  Just a little bit hypocritical, aren't we?


"The film opens with scenes from HoHocon 1993 where hackers were being accused of trying to break into the hotel phone system by simply standing outside a door.  We see an incredible number of security personnel and police converging on a hotel room, apparently unbothered by having it all captured on camera."

"On another front, some resourceful person had discovered that dialing extension 5199 connected you to the maintenance dialup port for the hotel's PBX system.  The operator had to keep a watchful eye on her terminal all night to prevent anyone from logging in.  Apparently she later gave some of the guys home-baked cookies to spread the word that she didn't care what anyone did as long as they stayed out of the innards of her telephone system.

    --- Two quotes about HoHoCon '93.  The top quote is from Evil Corley in a review of Annaliza Savage's film Unauthorized Access.  Bottom quote is from the Nuts & Volts article Rising From The Underground by Damien Thorn.  This is a perfect example of manufactured fear that Evil Corley likes to use to scare his kiddie following.


"Is it me or does anyone else notice that the magazine 2600 seem to have all kinds of highschool/jr high kids writting in too them going on with things that just seem juvenile.  There is sometimes usefull information to be gained from reading the magazine.  It just seems like some of the articles are written by those who know what they are talking about.  I just cant shake this juvenile feel that I get from a lot of it though.  Anyone else feel the same?"

    --- USENET post from the user "Zaxil" on May 23, 2003.  Yes, there is a very good reason why $2600 Magazine targets teenaged boys...


"So many articles were clearly written by people who did not know much, and who punt when they get to difficult work.  'The encryption is done by a custom chip and, uh, you might want to decompile the EEPROM and see what's in there.'  Or they contain only trivial information, made to fill many pages through the inclusion of anecdotes about how the writer came to know the trivial information.  (Four pages on how you discovered that ATMs run OS/2?  The entire article could have been reduced to four words: 'Many ATMs run OS/2.')  And then there are the political articles, most of which are screeds about how the government and/or big companies are coming to take your freedom away, and their desire to be paid for your pirated movies proves it."

    --- Amazon quote from "Neurasthenic" in his review of The Best of $2600: A Hacker Odyssey


"On a slightly different tangent, does this not make you weep for the readers of 2600 a bit?  It's like one moron making up stories and spreading them to a bunch of morons.  There must've been at least a few people who read that article and went, 'huh?'  I don't know, man.  The whole revisionism angle bothers me as much if not more than the shitty journalism.  I guess people are used to just walking on to forums or into chatrooms and spewing bullshit and hoping that enough people will just believe them.  It also makes me really, really sad about the state of 2600.  Are there really no hackers left?"

    --- Comment from Rob O'hara about the "Where Have The Philez Gone?" article.


"But apparently doing more than writing a couple column inches that say nothing, and say it inaccurately, counts as useful information in 2600 these days."

    --- Quote from Jason Scott's blog entry on May 7, 2007.


"I finished recently the latest issue of 2600.  2600 these days seems to be a mix of exegeses and lo-tech things that I could do given time and the particular piece of software in question.  I want to read articles about hex editry and soldering and doing cool stuff with electronics, and not a bunch of 'And if you wanted, you could do this at an airport, and the only person who would see would be the security camera.'"

    --- Blog quote from "aethercowboy" on July 25, 2007.


"For well over a decade 2600 had almost zero content produced inhouse aside from editorials.  Techncial content was all reader submitted.  When readers would write in and ask why an article on XYZ wasn't to be found anywhere, the response was always 'well, why don't you research, learn it, and then write one for us?'.  I remember one issue had a semi-detailed article on how to use nmap, I think it was like 1.51.  Of course, 2 months before the quarterly came out nmap had rev'd to 2.0 and the 1.x tree looked amateur in comparison.  A quarterly print mag with nothing of value created in house... christ, it's like web 2.0 but 15 years sooner."

    --- Comment about $2600 Magazine from "ajr" on Jason Scott's blog.


"Nowadays, I subscribe to 2600 just to read all the hilarious letters to the editor and all the bizarre personal ads.  Yes yes yes, I still read the articles to better understand the hacker mindset ... but the letters section makes me wonder why the FBI fears hackers at all.  Take out the national power grid?  Bah.  Many of 2600's readers can't even take out the garbage."

    --- February 8, 2001 quote from Rob Rosenberger in Captive Experts and Gullible Hackers.


"Well, I don't know if you have seen the latest issue, and not to dis the zine, but it was really sparse.  Pages were filled with how to pretend hack your high school, and the listings of AT&T offices, just to piss off AT&T.  The Quarter schematic was poorly documented and the digram is an insult to anyone who can understand electronics rather than looking on the back of cerial boxes for cool new tricks."

    --- December 10, 1993 USENET post from Levi Brown on the poor quality of $2600 Magazine articles.


"Speaking of 2600, they are the epitimy of everything wrong with the hacker scene.  I will use the new spring 96 issue as an example.  The cover shows some hakur stealing a payphone with the heading 'Our Nations Youth Run Amok, Corporations living in terror'.  I am sure the corporations are so scared of Emmanuel Goldstein and his legions of 14 year old fags.  2600 is a Corporation, so all you dumbasses that read that shit are getting played.  Emmanuel is getting rich off of the dumbass wannabe kiddies.  He was also one of the technical consultants for that embarrasment 'hackers: the movie'.  All that movie is doing is getting more crusty types to pretend to be hackers and buy his magazine.  As usual, the editorial is a bitch about how Hackers who get caught shouldn't be punished.  Hacking is a crime, i am sure emmanuel would be pissed off if someone took over 2600.com and trashed it.  The guy f*cked up and got caught, quit f*cking whining about it.  There is no f*cking 'Bureaucratic Corporate Regime' out there that is out to get all hackers."

    --- Excellent rant discussing $2600 Magazine Vol. 13, No. 1 from "The Psycho Pyro" in Vaginal and Anal Secretions Newsletter, Issue #117.


"But seriously, emmanuel has been around forever(1984?), yet he still has never hacked ANYTHING.  And for all those who didn't know, he was the genious technical advisor behind the greatest movie of all time: Hackers."


<mka> emmnauel bite me 
<emmanuel> mka- in your dreams

    --- Excerpt from a #2600 IRC log in Vaginal and Anal Secretions Newsletter, Issue #128.


"If i use a red box will the FBI, NSA and SS be after me?  Will the people i call get in trouble?  Will I get in trouble?  --- TeenBoy"

"No, at the moment they can't if you have a special emmanual adapter.  Just come over to my hottub at the mansion and i'll give you one.  Bring a friend."

"Don't forget to call the 2600 voice bbs. 2600 voice bbs costs $3.99 per minute, $3.98 for each additional minute. If your under 18, you must have the permission of a parent, but call anyways."

"A one year subscription to 2600 mag will cost $160 for 4 issues.  For a two year subscription, it will cost you $580.  Now, you may be wondering why we are asking so much for a quartarly released magazine that is half the size of normal magazine with only 30 pages.  A magazine that is photocopied in my basement.  And you wonder why it costs so much.  Well, i have to make all those payments for my pink Ferrari Limo, the lease on my huge New York mansion and my sex change operation.  Yes, even though i act like i am unmaterialistic, I'm really very materialistic.  I want your money."

    --- Funny spoof of $2600 Magazine in Vaginal and Anal Secretions Newsletter, Issue #104.  Heh.


"I've been waiting for almost 3 months now to get my 2600 black tshirt, and it still hasn't arrived.  I've tried to contact Emmanuel through emmanuel@well, 2600@well, MANY times.  I've also tried leaving endless messages on the answering machine, as well as talking to Emmanuel on IRC (who said he would get through to me by email).  Is this normal?  How can I get a VOICE line to 2600?  (No stupid answering machines) And Emmanuel, if you're reading this I want you to contact me."

    --- June 16, 1994 USENET post from Adam Frampton (LordOptic).  The $2600 Magazine idiots often complain when other companies have voice mail systems, but they never answer their own damn phones!


"That may be because the elite assassin commandos at 2600 International Megacorp Ltd. have sought out and 'eliminated' everyone who has dared repost this 31337 article from a 1985 issue of 2600.  But not me - I have eluded the 2600 intelligence forces for 13 years now and am still 12 steps ahead of them... "

    --- August 14, 1998 USENET post from "The Fixer" (Gerald Albion) on why articles from $2600 Magazine are always hard to find on the Internet.


"It's not like they just threw his ass into solitary without reason.  They were told by his significant other he could cause mass destruction just by whistling a key audio cue into a phone.  Keep in mind that during the 1980's people viewed young men knowledgeable about computers the same way peasants might view a wizard of the Middle Ages, with appropriate fear and reverence.

Maybe if Suzy Thunder hadn't done such a wonderful job of stoking a fire he wouldn't have been in that state.  And fleeing a trial is never justified, never.  Not even by your soggiest wet cyberpunk 'sticking it to THE MAN' dreams."

    --- Comment about Kevin Mitnick which was posted on Jason Scott's blog entry on June 12, 2006.  It's widely known that Kevin's "little jail problem" came about when several southern California amateur radio operators were fed up with Kevin messing with their repeater systems.  Hacker Rule #1:  Don't mess with people smarter than you and their repeater systems...


"If he claims associations with any techie group, it's only because he wants that association to further his manipulative psychopathic abilities and desires.  The amazing thing is, he can talk to a reporter about how he has used his powers of psychotic manipulation in the past, and he comes out sounding like an interesting guy.  That in itself should tell you how manipulative he can be.  He's not doing any good anywhere, he's simply gaming the system, whether it be the ham community, the phone company, a private company he dupes into giving its secret away, a reporter, or a bunch of rubes who visit a ham website."

    --- June 27, 2009 quote about Kevin Mitnick on eHam.net from N3QE.


"The SE (social engineering) panel was pathetic, and I don't know why.  Apparently 2600 would like its syncophants to worship Mitnick as a S.engineer now too.  I wonder if he realised the true injustice in his case is being masked to make him 2600's media whore."

    --- Comment from Shaughn Shea about the social engineering panel at H2K.


"The Sherman Antitrust Act applies to Microsoft customers just as much as it does (perhaps moreso, under the Bu$h anminstration) to Microsoft itself.  And the Sherman Act prohibits unlawful exercise of Monopsony power (collusive exercise of market power among purchasers) just as much as it prohibits unlawful conduct by Monoploies and Oligopolies (individual sellers or collusive cartels)."

    --- Comment from Eric Grimm (CyberBrief, PLC) the rich, clueless lawyer for $2600 Magazine and the EFF.  He's one of the nutcases that actually thinks a software company can be a "monopoly."  Hint:  If you don't like the software, write your own.  Don't cry about it on Slashdot, and sure as Hell don't pass any more laws just because you didn't take engineering or computer science classes school.  You can also legally sue Eric Grimm under the Hacktivisomo License, as he current enables "human rights abuses" by aiding and abetting one of his clients, Emmanuel Goldstein, who is a known child molester.


One diddles little boys, the other covers it up.

"Tom Lee has been very active for many years in the Federalist Society -- an organization that is dedicated to packing the Federal bench with ideological 'conservatives.'  Spencer Abraham (former Senator from Michigan) -- the sponsor of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act -- was one of the founding members of the Federalist Society, and made sure that Greg Phillips, Tom Lee's law partner, was invited to testify in favor of the ACPA.  Ted Olsen (the guy who argued the Bush v. Gore case for Bush) is also a big Federalist Society member and booster. "

    --- Comment from Eric Grimm (CyberBrief, PLC) the rich, clueless lawyer for $2600 Magazine and the EFF.  Note how following the Constitution of the United States now makes you an "evil conservative."  Very scary stuff.


"'I was brought up to ask questions,' he told me in an interview before the conference.  'This is all that hackers do.  They just ask questions till they get an answer that's different.  And I merely encourage that.'"

    --- Excerpt from Hackers: Threat or Menace?  Why is Evil Corley getting teenaged boys drunk at HOPE/NYC2600 and sleeping with them?  Why won't his lawyers tell the police?


"After all, why would anyone want to pay close to $20 for a CD of their favorite band when they can get it for free over the net and when the actual artists only receive a small fraction of that amount anyway?"

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 21, No. 1.  Why would anyone want to pay $6 $7 $8 $9 for a shitty "hacker" magazine when they can get it for free over the net and the actual writers don't get paid at all?


"I think this has also brought out another very important issue which can now be pointed to with some authority, namely the suppression of news by the corporate media.  We should not let this go."

    --- Excerpt from a Evil Corley IMC-NYC posting (Mirror).  Isn't your little corporation also suppressing a few "news" stories?


"i picked up a bunch of fairly powerful two-way radios at a hamfest.  they're around five watts and their coverage area is at least a mile and they have no trouble penetrating buildings.  i believe we have around 15 of them including chargers.  we need to test them so we can see how many actually work and what their capacities are.  there is a pile in the room with all the stuff in it (next to the bathroom).  if anyone has time to go through this, please let me know.  thanks"

    --- Excerpt from a Evil Corley IMC-NYC posting (Mirror).  Do you have a FCC license to operate on those frequencies?  If operating in the MURS band, you can only have two watts RF power output.  Remember, the airwaves belong to the public, not your little corporation.


"2600 was, in my opinion, irresponsible in printing something with a persons name on it, without making any attempt to contact me (I'm in many online directories, including nic & Compuserve).  If they couldn't contact the author, the ethical thing to do is not publish.  2600 apparently couldn't resists such a 'juicy' tidbit though, whatever the cost to somebody else.  As this was a titled document -- and obviously part of a series -- 2600 reasonably could deduce that somebody owned the thing and that permission should be obtained.  At that time, presumption of copyright wasn't a legal doctrine (although now, thankfully, it is), however, 2600 should know that lack of a copyright notice doesn't mean that the notice wasn't illegally removed.  Their claim to be able to publish the contents as a news item anyway is academic, as they published a photographic facimile of my work."

    --- Excerpt from a July 23, 1992 post by Mel Beckman on the RISKS Digest Volume 13, Issue #68.  This is a good example of $2600 Magazine taking someone else's property, and then printing and profiting from it.  They could care less about the people, or their jobs, that it may effect.


"As I am sure most of you are aware, I am the author of the Motorola Bible - a technical manual dedicated to Motorola Cellular Phones.  It is not authorized by Motorola and it is not welcomed in the industry due to cloning issues.

ANYWAY...  2600 magazine published it in the Spring 96 issue without my permission or even telling me they were publishing it.  Like I said, they never told me of the printing.  They won't return any of my letters in regards to the publishing.  I have lost a VERY good paying job with one of the top communication companies in the world due to them printing my real name and Email address.

...

By comparing older issues with more current issues you will see the trend in lame articles on the rise because most self-respecting hacker would not publish the info in 2600 anymore.  I mean cummon, the 'confessions of a beige boxer' was *REALLY* intriguing and has helped me a lot. (cough cough)"

    --- Excerpt from a USENET posting by Mike Larsen on May 19, 1996.  More proof that $2600 Magazine routinely publishes, and profits from, other people's work.


"I can't believe how many inaccuracies there were in this article.  As a former cast member at WDW [Walt Disney World] I can tell you that the majority of 'facts' listed in the article were gross errors.  You really should check your articles before they are printed.  Not doing so hurts the reputation of your publication."

    --- Letter from Michele Warner in $2600 Magazine Vol. 13, No. 1 discussing the large number of errors in one of their stupid "Hacking Disney" articles.


"While on vacation last week, I picked up the Summer 2003 issue of 2600 magazine from Barnes and Noble.  In the issue is an article titled 'Optimum Online and You'.  The article is peppered with inaccuracies, and is mostly a big complaint piece about OOL policies, from bitching about the 'You may be running a server from your computer and not even know it' email that OOL sent, complaints about port blocking, and the ever popular 'You pay for your allotted bandwidth and, as long as you don't uncap your modem, you should be allowed to do whatever you wish' argument.  The OOL whiners will love the piece; for the rest of us, don't waste the $5.50."

    --- August 25, 2003 post on the DSLReports Forums by the user 'Bichon.'


"9:00: typing class is over, and elite hax0r travels to his history class.  No 'puters here, so, he strategically places his copy of 2600 inside his history book and memorizes the 'how to steal stuff' article."

    --- Excerpt from a funny article on "A Day in the Life of a Leet Hax0r."


"'It was foolish of them to pick [2600],' Corley says.  'We've always stood up against this kind of thing.  We don't know how to back down.'"

"He 'couldn't hack his way into a paper bag,' says one ex-hacker who, naturally, chooses to remain anonymous."

    --- Excerpts from the Village Voice article Down By Law.  We've also stood up to that kind of thing...


"But 2600 has never been a typical business. And one thing we don't want to do is screw over other people just because we got screwed over."

    --- Quote from $2600 Magazine complaining that someone ripped them off from printing their little "hacker" magazine, which is filled with old BBS files they stole from other people.  Think about that one!


"... I was able to track these numbers through my knowledge of the phone company, and then change the line class code to allow termination, which means those phones could then receive calls."

    --- Misleading statement by Kevin Mitnick on Off The Hook June 6, 2007.  Line Class Codes (LCC) are related to billing/AMA information and have nothing to do with the denied termination line option/feature.  (ESS Information & DMS Information)  This episode also has a number of other technical errors and a lot more misleading comments (note how they try to use a private conversation to debate public FCC rules).  It's also funny how they say software theft is "worthless," yet they'll turn around and try to sue you for tens of thousands of dollars for "copying" their little magazine - which has a $6 price tag on it!  Ever heard Craig Neidorf's E911 document story?


"personally i think the quality has dropped because they give a lifetime subscription for submitting an article, so any idiot with a computer who gets called a hacker because they know how to use their computer without a mouse sends in an article.

but 2600 wants it that way.  they have to.  otherwise they'd simply drop the stupid articles, the 'i did this, isnt it cool, gimme free stuff' garbage and only print the technical/informative articles."

    --- 2600 LiveJournal posting by "amokk" discussing the low quality of articles in $2600 Magazine.


"Don't blindly follow your leaders.  There's lots more to the 'war' against Afghanistan (formerly known as the war against terrorism) than you hear about from politicians.  Wealthy white Christian men who own or are indentured to the military industry and big oil are making potentially disasterous decisions.  Advocate peace and healing for the people of Afghanistan, understanding for peoples of all religions and ethinicities, and an end to hostilities in the middle east."

    --- Excerpt from Greg Newby's website.  And don't blindly follow clueless $2600/HOPE idiots, like yourself.  Funny you don't mention is was the Muslim Arabs (after your hero's did - (((Communist))) Russians) who invaded Afghanistan, killing over one million innocent Afghanis who didn't stand a chance of fighting back.  Did you idiots ever protest that?  No?  BTW, the Taliban kills homosexuals...  Also, don't blindly follow wealthy, leftist child molesters who want to destroy Western civilization just so they can sell a few issues of their little "hacker" magazine.  For your next computer science project, calculate the number of years Greg Newby will be in prison for helping Evil Corley sleep with drunk teenaged boys at HOPE.  And, do you think this piece of shit will ever condemn the Soviet "military industry" and Chinese, Israeli, or Soviet "big oil?"  Now, where does the plastic for those Freedom Downtime ($30) DVDs and VHS cassettes come from, you stupid idiot?  Also, a lot of the (((people))) and war mongers (Mirror) in the "military industry and big oil" are jewish Atheists or even Satanists, not "White Christians."  And this clueless nutjob is a professor!


Greg Newby:  "Shut up and pay your tuition!"
YOU are in debt because of YOUR student loans paying a person who literally thinks 2 ﬩ 2 = 5.

      
        
            
            
              
            
          
            
              
            
              
          
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"Gradually, I began to hate them."

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.  It was their final, most essential command."

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals ... to be used as pawns in foreign policy."

    --- Quote from (((Henry A. Kissinger))), former U.S. Secretary of State, as noted in The Final Days by Bob Woodward, p. 194-195.  (LibGen)

"They put the Jewish interest above America's interest, and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second."

    --- Quote from Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President of the United States.  (Additional Info)

"We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever.  Nothing that you do will meet our needs and demands.  We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build.  Beyond all temporary alliances with this or that faction lies the ultimate split in nature and destiny, the enmity between the Game and God.  But those of us who fail to understand that truth will always be found in alliance with your rebellious factions, until disillusionment comes.  The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us."

    --- Quote from (((Maurice Samuel))) in his book You Gentiles, p. 155.  (Audiobook)

"Why should we, the only truly international people, be concerned with the mutable interests of stupid Goyim nations?  ...  Support the draft law when it is presented to the American people.  ...  We can repeat our triumphs of 1918 if we maintain our united front, and the dumb Goyim will fight while we profit."

    --- Excerpts from a FBI investigation into the (((Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith))) activities during the 1940s.  (Source)

"Give us twenty years and we'll take over your media and destroy your country."

    --- Comment made by an Israeli "employee" of Urban Moving Systems, which closed down right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was found by the FBI to be front for Israel's foreign intelligence service(s).

"You know, the rules of perception.  If they're Black, then it's a gang.  If they're Italian, it's a mob.  If they're jewish, it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it."

    --- Quote from comedian Dave Chappelle during his monologue on Saturday Night Live, November 12, 2022.


"We recently attended a 2600 meeting in Dallas.  We were suprised to see only small children who knew nothing of importance and had little discretion as to the purpose of the meeting.  We propose a new meeting location in Lewisville, TX.  This we hope will increase the local following and adult attendance, or at least those of us who are out of the seventh grade.  We will anticipate a direction from you oh lords and masters."

    --- Funny letter from "The Phrkman" and "Cybrthuug" in $2600 Magazine Vol. 14, No. 4.  The main purpose of $2600 meetings is so their "staff" has a legitimate excuse to hang around young boys.


"And Mitnick kept calling, even sending electronic messages, telling his story, complaining about Markoff's portrayal of him in Cyberpunk and defending his hacking as the search for knowledge, not for material gain."

"Today he earns in the low six figures by advising executives on how to protect their companies from the current generation of ingenious but reckless geeks."

    --- Top quote is from Kevin Mitnick complaining to Jonathan Littman that John Markoff's books and articles are not "accurate."  Katie Hafner actually wrote the "Kevin: The Dark-Side Hacker" chapter in Cyberpunk, don't let the facts get in the way of your little charade...  Bottom quote is from the Playboy article The Invisible Digital Man.  Nothing like using manufactured fear, history revisionism, and blatant lies to help you pull in six figures a year.


"For what it's worth, [John] Markoff had no input on the book.  The most he did was read the galley proofs.  [Katie] Hafner is absolutely outraged by what is happening to Kevin.  The Esquire article gives a good sense of that.  And she does have a Free Kevin sticker on her car and might be a very useful ally in getting the word out."

    --- November 10, 1998 posting by Douglas Thomas on the "Free Kevin" mailing list.  Further information confirming that John Markoff had little to do with the Kevin Mitnick information in Cyberpunk, contrary to what $2600 Magazine and Kevin Mitnick may say.  (Katie Hafner's "Kevin Mitnick, Unplugged" in Esquire.)


"Ironically, Hyperion's books are distributed by Little, Brown.  However, says Hyperion publisher Bob Miller, the sales reps are 'playing it as a positive.'  Indeed, the house accelerated publication of Takedown so as not to be overtaken by its rival."

    --- Jonathan Littman's The Fugitive Game and Tsutomu Shimomura/John Markoff's Takedown are both distributed by the same company - Little, Brown and Company.  Also, Kevin's new book deal telling his "official" story will be put out by, you guessed it, Little, Brown and Company.  No profiteering going on here...


"He's a nice guy actually.  However, on a professional level, I found his presentation rambling, far too anecdotal, and without much real substance on what should be done to prevent the sort of SE attacks he excelled at.  Interestingly, while he has often been held up as a 'computer hacker' he is really nothing of the sort.  His level of technical knowledge seems extremely limited, but he was a 'big name' draw to the conferences.  :-)"

    --- February 17, 2005 post by "AJ" at The Art of Noh describing a conference speech by $2600 Magazine's main cash cow, Kevin Mitnick.


"Does anyone have 800MHz modification data for the Radio Shack PRO-2032 desktop scanner?  Please email me if you do.  Thanks."

    --- USENET post from Ed Cummings (Bernie S.) on July 1, 1997.  The defenders of other people's "privacy" are modifying their Radio Shack scanners so they can listen to analog cellular phone conversations.  Just a little bit hypocritical, aren't we?


"I'm sure that most list members would appreciate your keeping your religious bigotry off the list, and your postings on-topic.  Thank you."

    --- August 9, 2010 posting from Ed Cummings (Bernie S.) on James Atkinson's own TSCM-L mailing list.  This coming from a man who supports the ACLjU, EFF, SPLC, etc., some of the most bigoted, anti-Christian, anti-Gentile, anti-Germanic organizations in the U.S., and he's also a person who helped ban people from HOPE for exposing Evil Corley's little "secret."  Note how Eddie acts like he is the list's moderator and enjoys telling other people how to think - a common trait with these types...  Oh, and most of the postings to the "Free Kevin Mitnick" mailing list were also off-topic, but little Eddie didn't dare say anything then...  Hmmm....  Lil' Eddie has habit of attacking Christians, as verifiable on several Off The Hook episodes.  Hey!  Isn't that also bigotry?


"Well...Kevin has been sitting in jail without a trial for 5 years.  He was arrested for things he didn't do, and the man who caught him, Tsutomo Shimomora (forgive the spelling) deserved to be in jail just as much as him.  I have been involved the the computer underground for some time and I am intelligent enough to realize that Kevin got screwed.  He got a really bum deal.  He was locked in solitary confinement for the stupidist reasons.  They but him in solitary because they said he was going to make a bug out of a walkman, and bug the jail to listen in what the officers were saying.  Well most intelligent people know that if you have a bug, you need a reciever!  And also, how the hell would Kevin get a bug into the offices when he was behind bars?  Think about this people, the feds screwed him."

    --- Typical rant from a brain-dead "Free Kevin" $2600-reading nutjob.


"We beg to differ that information is similar to a gun.  One is a specific weapon, the other is a virtually unlimited form of expression.  One has finite possibilities and the other is infinite in scope.  People who want to control information pose a far greater risk to a free society than those who want weapons to be handled responsibly.  And most free societies passionately agree."

    --- Excerpt from a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 18, No. 2.  Hmm...  According to this, $2600 Enterprises, Inc. is one of the biggest threats to a free society!


"nah someone :-) needs to get to nytimes.com and create a story about japboy that he is a convicted child molester and get it printed with markoff's by line."

    --- February 10, 1995 talk session between Kevin Mitnick and the user "jsz" (Jonathan Zanderson).  Hehe...  No...  I think a good story would be Kevin Mitnick's support for a certain other child molester!


"Hrm.  Now that that mentally challenged sack of dribble AKA the great condor is back in the straight world I was wondering.  What ever happened to Jonathan [Zanderson]?  Seeing as he was the only publicly involved person with any actual skill, and it's 8 years after the fact..  I think it'd be nice for him to step forward and tell the real story of how Mitnick's fame is based on nothing more than hot air, and how pathetic it is that he's trying to milk said fame in today's infosec 'industry'.  Are you still out there jsz?"

    --- September 29, 2003 Full-Disclosure post by Mitch Hurrison about "jsz" and Kevin Mitnick.


"Markoff's most enduring [Kevin] Mitnick anecdote is the story that the hacker cracked NORAD in the early 1980s, a claim that was recycled as recently as last May by another New York Times reporter.  'I never even attempted to access their computer, let alone break into it,' Mitnick said.  'Nor did I do a host of allegations that he says I'm guilty of.'"

    --- Quote from Kevin Mitnick in I Was Never a Malicious Person on July 30, 1999.  $2600 Magazine reported that "Mitnick hacked NORAD" five years before it appeared in the New York Times.


"Steven Rhoades said he and [Kevin] Mitnick broke into a North American Air Defense Command computer in Colorado Springs, CO in 1979.  The 1983 movie 'Wargames' is based upon a similar incident, in which a young hacker nearly starts World War III when he sends a message to a defense computer that is mistaken for a Soviet missile attack.  But Rhoades said they did not interfere with any defense operations.  'We just got in, looked around and got out,' he said."

    --- January 8, 1989 quote from John Johnson in his Los Angeles Times article.  Since Steven Rhoades may have been a minor at the time, it looks like the article was edited when distributed.  An "unedited" version is available in PLA #18.  As you can see, John Markoff had nothing to do with creating this myth.


"Markoff falsely claimed that I had wiretapped the FBI (I hadn't); that I had broken into the computers at NORAD (which aren't even connected to any network on the outside);"

"I was able to do alot of [telephone] traffic analysis and actually identify the telephone numbers that belonged to the federal agents, and where they were at particular times.  I was able to monitor their whereabouts when they were getting close to me."

    --- Top quote from Kevin Mitnick in The Art of Deception - the "forbidden" chapter.  You and your little butt-buddies did use telco metallic test systems to intercept FBI communications, you also listened into private FBI cellular phone conversations.  And here we go again...  $2600 Magazine reported that "Mitnick hacked NORAD" five years before it appeared in the New York Times.  The bottom quote is from Kevin Mitnick on the June 6, 2007 episode of Off The Hook discussing his illegal monitoring of private cellular phone conversations (and uplink and call control data) belonging to active FBI agents.  First he says he didn't monitor the FBI, now he admits it!  And when it came time to sell one of his books, the "hacking NORAD" story was too good to pass up.  No profiteering going on here...


"Kevin Mitnick (Technical Editor) is the most famous computer hacker in the world.  Since his first arrest in 1981, at age 17, he has spent nearly half his adult life either in prison or as a fugitive.  He has been the subject of three books and his alleged 1982 hack into NORAD inspired the movie War Games.  Since his plea-bargain release in 2000, he says he has reformed and is devoting his talents to helping computer security."

    --- Quote from "About the Author" on the book No Tech Hacking discussing Kevin Mitnick.  Wait a second...  Now Mitnick is using this "alleged NORAD hack" to help boost his book sales?  No profiteering going on here!  BTW, Tom Stockman's Air Force SAC story was the basis for the movie WarGames.  (Amazon Screenshot)


"Kevin Mitnick is one of the most well-known black hat hackers.  At one point, he was the most wanted cybercriminal in the world.  He hacked into over forty major corporations, including Motorola and IBM, and even the US National Defense warning system.  He was taken into custody and incarcerated in 1995.  He became a cybersecurity consultant after his release in 2001, utilizing his hacking expertise for white hat hacking."

    --- Wikipedia entry for "Black hat (computer security) which references Kevin Mitnick's alleged NORAD attack under the "Examples of famous black hats" section.  Funny, no one is rushing to have it corrected...  (Mirror)


"A few months later, Markoff and his cohort Tsutomu Shimomura would both participate as de facto government agents in my arrest, in violation of both federal law and journalistic ethics."

    --- Quote from Kevin Mitnick in The Art of Deception - the "forbidden" chapter.  Is Kevin really that stupid?  The feds asked for public assistance to help capture Mitnick.  They were required by law to help any law enforcement, and the (((New York Times))) never had an ounce of "journalistic ethics."


"'The truth of the matter is that I was never a malicious person.  I admit I was mischievous, but not malicious in any sense.'"

    --- Quote from Kevin Mitnick in I Was Never a Malicious Person on July 30, 1999.  Uhh...  Mitnick buddy...  You steal the IDs of dead babies, charge others with your phones calls, hang around with a bunch of gay "hacker" child molesters  I'm pretty sure that is seen as "malicious behavior."


"'What ended up happening is the movie came out in 1998 and I was able to get an attorney.  I settled out of court for a large sum of money.  Markoff is lucky, and Shimomura is lucky that there's a one year statute of limitations [on libel cases],' he explained.  'They exploited me to make millions of dollars.'"

    --- Quote from Hackers: Under the Hood.  No, you fat, stupid, con artist.  You are the one out there scamming people via infomercials to make yourself "millions of dollars."  You couldn't sue Markoff or Shimomura because those statements could then be used against you in your criminal trial (no 5th Amendment protection).


"As you probably already know, when I settled my case with the government back in 1999, I had to agree that I wouldn't profit from telling my story for seven years, and that was part of the deal with the federal government..."

    --- Quote fron Kevin Mitnick on the July 27, 2011 episode of Off The Hook.  This is a bit of a lie...  The deal was any profit Kevin Mitnick made from telling his story would go to payback his victims.  By waiting this long to tell his story, Kevin purposely avoided having to pay anyone back for the chaos and anger he caused.


"Both [Robert] Lemos and Mr. Markoff fail to note that Mr. Markoff provided no support whatsoever for his claim that I was anyone's 'most wanted.'  Indeed, Mr. Markoff's empty and unsupported claim has been manipulated by media around the world into the specious claim that I was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List -- a claim that has been refuted by the FBI itself, according to Michael White of the Associated Press."

"... [Kevin Mitnick] was arguably the most wanted computer hacker in the world, he allegedly had access to corporate trade secrets worth millions of dollars.  He was a very big threat"

    --- Top quote is from a Kevin Mitnick press release asking John Markoff to provide his sources.  The bottom quote is from Federal prosecutor Kent Walker in this John Markoff article.


"I could go on and on, even simple verifiable information.  For example, on page 84, Katie describes a scenario where I asked Bonnie [Vitello] out on a date.  To paint an unsavory picture, she stated that I was always eating in the computer room when talking with Bonnie."

"... He denies this and says that I was trying to 'paint an unsavory picture'.  It was Bonnie who told us that he was always eating while he was talking -- we didn't make it up -- and without the ability to speak to him, we had to choose to go on."

    --- Top quote is from a Kevin Mitnick article discussing Cyberpunk in $2600 Magazine Vol. 8, No. 2.  The bottom quote is from Katie Hafner in this October 1, 1991 Newsbytes article.  Who's lying?


"Again, when describing my arrest at USC in 1982, Katie wrote on page 71 that I taunted Mark Brown (USC System Manager) in his investigative techniques.  This is truly amazing, since I never spoke with Mark Brown."

"The second example is his statement that we said that he taunted USC's Mark Brown when, in fact, he 'never spoke with Mark Brown'.  Brown says that he has definitely spoken to Mitnick and that he remembers the calls well and can call to mind details from them.  If we had spoken to Mitnick, he would have had a chance to dispute such statements."

    --- Top quote is from a Kevin Mitnick article discussing Cyberpunk in $2600 Magazine Vol. 8, No. 2.  The bottom quote is from Katie Hafner in this October 1, 1991 Newsbytes article.  Who's lying?


"[ Investigators staked out a copy shop, but Mitnick got away... ]"

"Didn't the feds ever read Cyberpunk?  They should have been waiting at FatBurger..."

    --- July 20, 1994 USENET posting by Robert Zawarski.


"Cyberpunk was published in 1991 by Katie Hafner and then husband John Markoff, and it relied almost entirely on the words of people who Kevin had a falling out with.  As well as those who didn't know him at all."

    --- Evil Corley in Freedom Downtime ($30) discussing Cyberpunk.  The main sources for this book where "Susan Thunder," (Susan Headley), "Roscoe," (Lewis De Payne), Lenny DiCicco, and Steven Rhoades.  All these people knew Kevin Mitnick.  Corley also shows a picture of Justin T. Petersen (Agent Steal) during this segment.  Justin T. Petersen had nothing to do with making Cyberpunk.  See below:


"Two of the main sources for Hafner and Markoff's account were 'Susan' and 'Roscoe,' two of Mitnick's fellow hackers who, as Hafner and Markoff write, 'cooperated with us in the understanding that their true names would not be revealed.'  In a final touch of irony, they end the book with the line, 'We respect their right to privacy.'  One of the two, Roscoe, would later claim that much of the information he provided to Hafner and Markoff was intended to deceive them."

    --- Quote from The Making of a 'Darkside Hacker' by Douglas Thomas.  All those "errors" in Cyberpunk were originally from Mitnick's little hacker buddies, Lewis De Payne (Roscoe) and Susan Headley!


"... there are other ISPs with a privacy problem.  colorado supernet sniffed sessions (sniffed by mitnick) contain a number of customer social security numbers."

    --- February 18, 1995 USENET posting by Vin McLellan with a reply from Mark Seiden on the "credit card" episode.  Mark Seiden was on the team as a network/firewall expert while tracking Kevin Mitnick.  If you think your Social Security Number may have been intercepted by Kevin Mitnick - call your lawyer now!!!  Kevin Mitnick is worth millions.  Sue the bastard!!!


"My conclusion is, until somebody shows me a single solitary shred of evidence, that this part of the affidavit is completely fabricated and bogus."

"you can try to pick this apart, bit by bit, but you'll find it futile.  nobody's fabricating anything.  really, evidence is not much of a problem in this case."

    --- Top quote is from one of Evil Corley's February 19, 1995 alt.2600 USENET propaganda posts.  The bottom quote is from Mark Seiden, calling out Corley's blatant, history-revisionist lies.


"`Yes, your honor,' he replied when asked to confirm that he wanted to waive bond consideration and a probable cause hearing.  No plea was entered."

"Mitnick, 31, also said he didn't want bond set.  For now, he will be housed in a jail somewhere in Eastern North Carolina -- wherever space is available."

    --- Top quote is from a February 17, 1995 Associated Press news article.  The bottom quote is from this article by Sarah Avery.  No idea what any of this 'legal-speak' means, but it might have been Mitnick's own fault he was held without bond?


"And furthermore, nobody is accusing Kevin of using even a single one of those credit card numbers."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 14, No. 2.  Credit card numbers were used by Netcom (and other ISPs) for customer verification during password changes.  Mitnick was using several hacked Netcom accounts.  This is NOT a coincidence!  Kevin Mitnick finally admits to this on the February 8, 2000 episode of Off The Hook.


"OK, so I think Kevin Mitnick is a shmuck.  I think he should probebly get some jail time.  But he has RIGHTS!  They are being stepped on.  If they'll step on his rights, they'll step on yours next."

"I went to lunch with Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 Magazine.  Manny used his time at the conference to talk about the Free Kevin movement.  Kevin Mitnick may be a schmuck, but what's happenning to him is criminal."

    --- Comments from The Cheshire Catalyst (Robert Osband), former editor of the original TAP newsletter.  Funny, you didn't hear that mentioned in Freedom Downtime ($30)!


"[Mitnick didn't] intentionally cause damage or harm to anything."

    --- Reply to a letter in $2600 Magazine Vol. 21, No. 1.


"In one case, Mitnick allegedly gained access to a Bay Area man's records and used information in the file to try and change his health care provider so that he could benefit from the man's medical coverage.  He also used the information to take on the identity of the man's dead son in order to obtain a phony driver's license."

    --- Quote from a July 10, 1994 Los Angeles Times article.


"Kevin Mitnick did have a streak of revenge and he was seldom one-upped.  And you're right, he would often pursue, at least electronically, people who occasionally one-upped him."

    --- Quote from Jonathan Littman on the March 26, 1997 episode of NPR's Talk of the Nation.  Jonathan Littman is often paraded around for "telling the truth" about the Kevin Mitnick saga.


"So they have a thing called a Social Security Death Index.  But for infants, people that are one, two, three years of age when they die, there is no record ... that's created.  So the key is, if you can find an infant that died in a different state than they where born in, you can become them, and that's what I did."

    --- Kevin Mitnick interview with Kevin Rose from thebroken, Video Release 03.  And Kevin Mitnick actually complains about being prosecuted...


"Oh yeah, yeah..  It was an invasion of privacy.  Going and getting access to other people's information is obviously a gross invasion of privacy and it is wrong."

    --- Kevin Mitnick interview on CBS' 60 Minutes.  But... but... but... Evil Corley said Mitnick was innocent and that $2600 Magazine fights for other people's rights and privacy?


"Bravo.  An unusually effective example of Internet governance taking down extremist and conspiracy theory platforms, while stamping out corrupt IPv4 address block allocation."

    --- Scary 1984-esque comment from $2600 "author" and lawyer(!) Alexander J. Urbelis regarding the illegal censorship of the Parler platform during the January 6, 2021 Constitutionally-protected election integrity protests.  We now know Parler had nothing to do with the protests, and it was only shut down by the (((Biden Administration))) in order to silence their political rivals (i.e., fascism).  Do you think this corrupt, lying idiot will try to shut down Twitter or Facebook for propping up Biden's lies and support for "extremism and conspiracy theories?"  Imagine the outrage if they tried shutting down Julian Assange and WikiLeaks..  Oh, needless to say, avoid Blackstone Law Group at all costs...



     

        




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