Jack Rhysider

Yearly issues turned into every other year issues.

And then sometimes there'd be four years between issues.

And in 2016, it seemed like that was the last issue of Frack.

Frac staff just wasn't there anymore, and there were no issues coming out.

But five years after that, in 2021, to all our surprise, a new issue of Frac was released.

We thought it was dead, but we were super happy to see a new issue.

And I remember hearing people at DEF CON tell me that year that they used an exploit that they saw in that new issue of Frac to make a bunch of money on bug bounties that year.

So it still had teeth and grit and was hard-hitting, at least until things got patched.

But that seemed to be the last hurrah for FRAC.

The internal FRAC staff just sort of fizzled out.

There wasn't support much for it.

The people were just very loosely involved at that point.

And they decided to get together in 2023 to discuss the future of FRAC.

TempOut is very similar to Frack.

It's an e-zine which posts articles on hacking.

It has its own edginess to it, like there's a bunch of ASCII art and hard-hitting articles.

And it was TMZ here who co-founded TempOut.

The Tempout team had already established themselves as a group who was technical, smart, and could ship articles, and immediately got busy reviving Frack.

Once again, I had no idea that the teams behind Frack have shifted so much throughout the 40 years.

But when it's volunteer driven, I suppose that's what happens.