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I think it was issue 24.

And it was the documentation that detailed how the emergency 911 system works in America.

And it was the first time that FRAC got into some legal problems with the authorities.

I think that has some significance because it happened right after Operation Sun Devil with the Secret Service hunting hackers.

And it also sparked the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation because the FRAC

person who released that article was so unfairly treated by the government and by the corporates.

Yeah, Knight Lightning faces 60 years in prison and $122,000 in fine.

That's a lot more money nowadays, I think.

So Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, issue 49, was the first article that told to the wider audience how buffer overflows work.

So in the olden days, buffer overflows were used to trigger a computer, a target, to execute a program that is not intended to execute, to break into a computer system, so to say.

And this article detailed it, how to do it yourself, how you can do it.

It was not the first time it was used on the internet.

The first time was probably by Robert T. Morris, who wrote the very first internet worm.

And there were other articles around how to manipulate the stack, but it was never that detailed in that clarity and reaching such a wide audience.

I think the race just started with source code reviews and finding vulnerabilities, disclosing them, irresponsibly disclosing them in the olden days, and then slowly getting an idea of what responsible disclosure is, that not every corporate is your enemy.

and trying to work together with them, trying to find common ground, how we can make the internet a better place for everybody.

So just to put this into perspective, when I started out with computer security and hacking, when I wanted to learn how to break a computer system,

I've been told what you have to do is you have to go to the library.

You have to find the book about Robert T. Morris.

You have to find and read the articles, the news articles to piece together information how he did it.