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Jack Rhysider

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And Frack.org had its fair share of attacks.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And there was a group that particularly was trying to take down Frack.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And they called themselves the Frack High Council, or PHC.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

They tried to pretend to be Frack by publishing lookalike articles that pretended to expose secrets, but they weren't actually secrets.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

A little war was breaking out between the corporate cybersecurity culture and the underground hacker culture.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

The Frack High Council thought, if Frack publishes articles on how to hack, that it'll be used by corporations to make money, so therefore don't publish any articles at all, or publish articles that would be detrimental to the cybersecurity professionals out there who are trying to profit from it.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

So have you ever looked up a tutorial online and it had some script or code or something, and that's what you needed to do?

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

That's the command you were looking for?

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And so you just copy and paste it into your computer, but you don't actually know what it does.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Yeah, well, if you would have tried to copy and paste this script, it had the command rm-rf, which would delete your whole hard drive.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Obviously, Frackstaff didn't put that destructive command in their magazine, but that version of the article still existed out there somewhere.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Skyper and his team had brought Frack back.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

They were publishing yearly issues of Frack.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

But then Skyper moved on to do other things.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

But there was enough momentum and there was enough people involved with Frack at that point for it to keep going on its own.