2600: The Hacker Quarterly - Winter 2017-2018

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American quarterly journal specializing in issues surrounding hacking, telephone switching systems, internet protocols, telecommunications in general, the politics around high technology, and its impact on society.

With origins in the phreaking community and late 20th century counterculture, 2600 and its associated conference transitioned to coverage of modern hacker culture, and the magazine has become a platform for speaking out against increased digital surveillance and advocacy of personal and digital freedoms.

This issue includes a piece by our very own LadyAda – Citizen Engineer!

Featured in this issue:

Credit Denial

Using dnscat2 for Encrypted C&C over DNS

Educating Friends and Family About Online Security

Creating Strong and Easy to Remember Passwords

Don't You Have a Smart Watch Yet?

TELECOM INFORMER

What Happens When WHOIS Data Is Made Public

Deuthing the Neighbors, or Ring Theory

Nightmare on E Street (Modem and Me Against the World)

HACKER PERSPECTIVE

Quantum Computers and Bitcoin

Conventionalist Theory of Reference in Comparison to Programming Language

Down and Out in a Land of Script Kiddies

Dispelling a Breach Rumor

CITIZEN ENGINEER

The Russian Hacking Diatribe, and Why It Is Complete Agitprop Nonsense

Successful Network Attacks – Phase Five

Fiction: Hacking the Naked Princess 0x14