There was a free newspaper/tabloid in the San Francisco bay area called
N O D E, if I remember the marketing correctly. It was like a MONDO
2000 meets 2600 magazine, but circulation was sporadic and it
dissapeared without a trace. I can't find much about it, except a web
site that looks like it might be related.
Dude - theres still a zine scene! I was in my local Powell's bookstore
and they carry a dozen or so different titles... art, skating, underground, anarchy, lgbqt, etc. - still plenty to go around!
Does 2600 even print their issues anymore? I didn't see that there, which surprised me.
Does 2600 even print their issues anymore? I didn't see that there, w surprised me.
Yep! I picked one up as recently as last year, if not earlier this year.
While... browsing for some new tech magazines recently I found this: https://www.hackercoolmagazine.com/product/hacker-magazine/
This is a monthly magazine from India, focused on security.
Cool name, I'm checking content, I have PDFs dating back from November 2023 up to now.. can share if you guys are curious.
I remember buying an issue on their website semi-recently and I received
a .PDF instead of a paper copy... that, and [ANY!] political leanings of
a HACKER zine turned me away in recent decades. I don't want my code
that way.
Still - 2600 was one of the zines that changed my outlook on computing
as I was growing up. :P
Upload and I'll do the rest. :P Thanks for posting...
Huh. If you feel strongly about that, I'm sure when you read these
things you have to block the politics out, at least a little, right? Unless they were deep in the weeds on technical details, most H/P/A text files and zines back (when I read them a lot) had a subversive if not outright blatant political tinge to them. Maybe the political stances themselves were more hazy, aligning less cleanly with today's two US parties. I guess more zines probably wear their politics on their
sleeves now, given how divisive everything is these days.
But I get yer point - I changed, not the zines. :P
esc wrote to paulie420 <=-
Change back! Be a dirty librul like us :P
There was a great Doonesbury comic about a liberal guy at a bar, talking about how he grew up liberal, wrote a book highlighting republican corruption, it made the bestseller list and his accountant told him that Reagans tax cuts would save him a ton of money.
"What's a liberal to do?"
Yer right - but back then I aligned with the leanings of the
publications I was reading; phrack, 2600, other little rags...
But I get yer point - I changed, not the zines. :P
But I get yer point - I changed, not the zines. :P
Change back! Be a dirty librul like us :P
I don't read a lot of modern H/P stuff, outside of nonfiction books
which are mostly historical, or occasionally educational. This could be
a controversial opinion, I don't know, but I usually struggle to get through an entire issue of 2600 these days because, having worked in corporate IT for so long now, having learned so much more, including seeing more perspectives and, well, just growing up a lot, outside of
the real technical articles sprinkled about, it MOSTLY feels like a
bunch of old dudes trying to convince themselves of how k-cool they
still are. It's a bit cringe, but man, I fucking loved it when I was a teenager.
the know live - but I bet I could keep my own. I wish I'd of jumped in
back then - I certainly wish I were in the coporate world now.
Its so weird - having NOT been in the IT/security world, I find all my technology/sysadmin stuff on my own... not in the land where yous in the know live - but I bet I could keep my own. I wish I'd of jumped in back then - I certainly wish I were in the coporate world now.
It's actually probably not too late. A certification or two could get
your foot in the door, and once you have some experience, it's up and
up. If you're interested in security in particular, from my perspective, there's still very much a million and one positions out there at bigger companies.
No you don't, I made it until my late 40's self employed. COVID screwed that up and I had to get a job. Couple of promotions later and I'm in
an office on a laptop all day and damn near sucidal from the corporate nonsense.
Besides, unless you are upper managment these new companys don't
pay near what people are worth becuase they all require their massive bonus.
Its so weird - having NOT been in the IT/security world, I find all m technology/sysadmin stuff on my own... not in the land where yous in know live - but I bet I could keep my own. I wish I'd of jumped in ba then - I certainly wish I were in the coporate world now.
It's actually probably not too late. A certification or two could get
your foot in the door, and once you have some experience, it's up and
up. If you're interested in security in particular, from my perspective, there's still very much a million and one positions out there at bigger companies.
Dude - I am worried... I've never been this close.
It's actually probably not too late. A certification or two could get
your foot in the door, and once you have some experience, it's up and
up. If you're interested in security in particular, from my perspective, there's still very much a million and one positions out there at bigger companies.
I left out the part where I was going to mention that, like Tiny said, *if* you actually want to... and that's a big if. I sometimes regret my decision not to just keep working shit jobs and playing in bands. I
would make far, far less, but I might be more sane today.
+1 to this. In fact, certain ones you can throw in your signature block when someone likes to tell you things that are wrong. When I have a disagreement about some asinine security thing, I always put "CISSP" in
my signature :P
You seem pretty sane. A lot of the people I grew up with and played
music with never went anywhere and a lot of them are total burnouts. Idk man. You'd maybe run the risk of becoming like that /or/ you'd be surrounded by a lot of people like that.
You and everyone else in InfoSec, seemingly. :P
Actually, you're surely right. A lot of my friends who chose that
life... god bless 'em... but they're fucking degenerates. :) The truth
is, working on anything besides what you actively want to or enjoy
working on sucks, and my ADHD means what I'm interested in is constantly shifting around.
As you know, I work in private sector but have a lot of government customers. When the stakeholders buy our software, the IT/InfoSec people are the first ones to throw up a bunch of arbitrary blockers when it
comes time to do the installation and kickoff. This is /precisely/ the time where I flex my certs. In fact this is really the only time lol...just to shut down dumb govvies trying to justify their existence.
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