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sub Scene { ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; my $self = shift; own($self, <<'EOSCENE'
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"Times change and technology progresses. Attackers adept and attacks evolve.
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At this point in history, we can wax fondly for the halcyon days when computers
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were hacked for pride or ego -- the good ole' simpler times when underground
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hacker wars were electronically waged and the collateral damage was the main
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website of The New York Times. Or the Solaris machines that were owned and the
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high profile computer security icons that had their e-mail spools stolen and
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personal poetry publicly posted. Or the OpenBSD machines that were rumored
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to be silently owned and the early copies of the most lauded online underground
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hacker journal that were distributed months ahead of time. Good times. Nowadays,
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there is no underground hacker scene -- not like there used to be (bring back
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BoW and Hagis!)." -- Mike Schiffman from the introduction to _Hacker's_Challenge_3_
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While route is indeed a whitehat sellout (and appears to like watching his
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co-workers be publicly humiliated), he is certainly correct about one thing:
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The Scene is IDLE. Not just a little idle, we're talking over a year of idleness
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here. Sure, occasionally groups attempt to make a stir. Undoubtedly, some of
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the readers will remember the PHC Delka Strike Force, hosted at http://el8.ru/x/
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(now down). Or the release of the epic h0no3 about one year ago. And of course,
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our own fun little contributions. However, despite the hard work of a number of
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individuals, many of the goals originally set forth for pr0j3kt m4yh3m by el8 and
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the Phrack High Council have yet to be accomplished. This needs to change.
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Instead of chatting on IRC all day, go out and own a whitehat. Do a PHC mission.
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Contribute to pr0j3kt m4yh3m.
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The recent events revolving around the blogger known as "InfoSec Sellout"
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bring an interesting point to light. When the older "security professionals"
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discovered the "fact" that InfoSec Sellout was LMH and was backed by PHC, it
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caused quite a stir for those that remembered the heyday of the pr0j3kt. For
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the whitehats that had just entered the industry post-whitehat holocaust, it
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didn't mean a thing. They simply assumed (like 90% of the HTS userbase) that
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PHC was/is a group of dissatisfied script kiddies. Too bad all the evidence
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points to the contrary. Another sad fact is that whitehats have not only
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taken over the public side of the scene, but the private side as well. These
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"revelations" about InfoSec Sellout at one time would have come from an
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anonymous post to FD, from a member of the underground. Now they come from a
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"respected security professional". Instead of talking about the activities of
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real hackers, the gossip reels these days deal with the exploits of whitehats
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like David Maynor, HD Moore and others. Is this what we've allowed the scene to
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become? A bunch of idlers thinking about fat middle aged whitehats? Where's the
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rage? Where's the dedication to the eradication of the greedy security
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consultants? Where's all the activity that was prevalent in the scene until
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recently?
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A time has come for a change. Follow the example dikline set out. Take back the
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scene! Go out and actually hack. Don't post exploits to FD; post a whitehat's
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spools! Continue the legacy of the glorious pr0j3kt m4yh3m!
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Never sell out, never surrender.
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EOSCENE
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);}
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