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Skyper

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
197 total appearances

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Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

So they tried to publish an article as frack, just posing as them.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

They actually stole some of the pre-release of frack.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And so what happened is that the frack staff always releases the upcoming frack release to the community, to some trusted friends.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And then after it's released to trusted friends, then it's released to some lesser trusted friends and so on and so on.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

it ended up before the official web page release in the hands of a PHC guy.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

So this PHC guy knows that we haven't released it publicly yet, but it's still a community release only.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And he modifies the FRAC articles, put some backdoors in there, and then publishes on his web page, a PHC web page, as a new FRAC release.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And these backdoors, they were not even clever backdoors.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

They were just very destructive backdoors that would delete your entire computer.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And we actually met in Spain to discuss a bit the future about FRAC.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And we decided that's not just for two or three people to decide that we should really ask Mike Schiffman again and some of the old staffers and previous staffers what their opinion is.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And then eventually we had a big phone call with maybe six or eight people of the old staff and new staff on there.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And we discussed what we should do.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And there were various options.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Some people said, hey, let's do one more FRAC and let's just call it.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And then other people said, no, we can't even do that.