Hello guys, these are the questions we have come up with. When you finish them, please email them back to me at root@tdcore.com . It is much appreciated, and I am sure you guys will get some good feedback from it! Thanks alot! TheHex - root@tdcore.com TeRM - term@tdcore.com 1. How was Prohacktive started, and why? ProHACKtive was started by Hyper Viper and Silicon Toad out of the ashes of the old Hackers.Com site. It's basically picking up where we left off and stepping things up...as HV said it's "hackers.com on an adrenaline rush." After the change Anasazi and Lady Vyxen followed, and later myself and Brimstone joined back up. The whole staff minus HackingWiz and Active Matrix (currently rocking with his hideaway.net site) are back together and it's working out great. 2. How long was Prohacktive "on the drawing board" before it went public? Hyper Viper would know more about this than me, but if you want to get real technical it was probably on the drawing board back in the old HDC days. It's definitely along the same road that we planned to take HDC down, but I think we've stepped it up a notch or two. 3. What are the future plans for Prohacktive, are there any surprises in store? Everything involving ProHACKtive is a surprise . We got a lot of really kick ass stuff in store, the least of which being the design of our final site. It's really coming along great. And what's interesting about ProHACKtive is that we want your input, we want people to contact us and tell us what they want and how they want it delivered. And we'll do our best to accommodate them. It's all about progressing. 4. What do you predict will come of the hackers.com site, and how do you feel about the recent events relating to the website? No idea. Who knows. Maybe it'll be ours again maybe it won't, maybe it'll turn into something cool, maybe it won't. Doesn't matter, we've moved on. If you want more details talk to HV cause he knows the situation better than I do. 5. With Prohacktive's corporate standards, how do you plan on staying loyal to the underground? It's where we're from, it's where are roots are, and, for me, it's where I spent a lot of my time growing up. It'd be hard for us not to stay loyal to the underground. Just because our attentions are focused on security and technologies with the intention of progressing those fields rather than email bombing and nuking and all that garbage doesn't mean we aren't a part of that community. We definitely are and we're definitely proud to be. 6. What exactly where the shortcomings of hackers.com and how do you plan on ensuring that it wont happen to Prohacktive? (If this is to touchy of a subject, please skip it.) We kind of lost touch with it as time progressed. We had huge plans (which have now been transferred to ProHACKtive) that got stuck in 'development hell' and with the passing of Ed it all sort of fell apart. He was the backbone so it was all crumbling. But we've moved on and our attentions are focused 100% on ProHACKtive now and we don't plan on letting it decay to the point of not being updated for months on end and being centered around a file archive completely based on posterity. But all is well, we're back and badder than ever. 7. How do you feel about the re-opening of "The Fringe Of The Web"? I'm impartial. If it provides for the people then it's fine by me. 8. Do you plan on releasing original Prohacktive coded security utilities? Probably. We're still in the very early stages of development and we have lots of ideas and plans that we'd love to see come to fruition, hopefully that will be one of them. 9. Are all of the staff identities public knowledge, or do you have staff members who have not yet been released to the public? Myself and Brimstone are still hanging on to our anonymity for personal reasons. It's easier to operate and everyone knows us by our handles, so it'd be kind of pointless to change that now. 10. Recently the corporate security industry has shunned hackers opening corporate companies. How do you feel about this, and do you plan on trying to gain their respect, and if so, how? Regarding : http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=956019205&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=37026&REQSTR1=newsnow It all comes down to the misrepresentation that has been going on for so long. These people are talking about crackers, not hackers. They just need to get their terminology right and get off the ignorant media bandwagon crap. People would be better off hiring hackers to secure their systems than some guy who doesn't know a secure system for a hole in his ego and claims to be a security professional cause he's read a few text books at a community college in Bumblefuck, North Dakota. It all comes down to the fact that hackers are hobbyists, they work at their craft and they know it better than anyone, and I'd rather have a carpenter, who has spent his life learning and perfecting his craft, build my house than a woodshop teacher who wanted to snag a couple extra bucks a month simply because he can use a circular saw. 11. Will Prohacktive still be active in the underground community, i.e.: attending Defcon and other related events? Absolutely, I believe Silicon Toad and Hyper Viper are both planning to attend the next DefCon. Maybe we'll even have our own con someday, ya never know ;)