Jack Rhysider

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

I'm Jack Recider.

This is Darknet Diaries.

Wow.

Seriously, wow.

Hey, it's Jack, host of the show.

So the last two episodes talked about hacking in the 80s and 90s, which was primarily phone-freaking.

In those episodes, I talked about a digital magazine called Frack, which was incredibly influential to the hacking scene.

It wasn't uncommon to be in a chat room and someone come in and ask, how do I get started as a hacker?

And then someone else simply say, go to Frack's site, start reading it at issue one, and by the time you're all caught up, you'll be a great hacker.

It's probably good to go and listen to the two episodes before this, before doing this one, just to have the context.

But you don't have to if you'd rather not.

But the thing is, is that in this episode, I interview two of the frack staff.

The magazine just celebrated their 40th anniversary.

And I'm pretty sure if you run a hacker magazine for 40 years, there's got to be some interesting stories in there somewhere.

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