Está interesante la Phrack #65

Y sale mencionado uno de mis héroes favoritos: Savage :)

"Toxyn group was helped by Savage, an known spanish hacker, who developed the exploit, that Toxyn Group used to break in in the .ID servers."

En el mismo artículo, titulado International scenes dan un largo repaso a la escena hacker italiana, también a la portuguesa y la ugandesa (más cortitas). Muy interesante. Aunque no lo pone, la parte sobre la escena italiana la ha escrito Emmanuel Goldstein o alguien cercano, según leo en la lista Cyber-rights.

Destaco 3 párrafos, donde Goldstein o quien sea resume de qué ha muerto la escena hacker; no sólo en Italia, aunque focalice sus argumentos en este país en concreto:

1. Por colaborar con la policía.
2. Por explotación con malas intenciones de la escena.
3. Porque los hackers convertidos en profesionales del negocio de la inseguridad han olvidado la vieja máxima: Devolver a la Red lo que Te ha Dado.

1. Muerte por colaboración con la policía

An alarming matter of fact is the big number of people once in the
underground that now collaborate with computer crime units or work for
companies providing malware and services to law enforcement agencies.
These people have been largely contributing to the death of the the
underground in Italy: even when they did not consciously fight other
hackers, the lack of trust and paranoia acted as disgregating forces
against groups and cooperations. The underground has shown not only it
is not strong enough to refuse working for law enforcements, but it is
not even able to isolate people that publicly claim to partecipate and
belong to the underground while at the same time working for the police.

2. Muerte por explotación con malas intenciones de la escena hacker

Wounds are made to the underground not only by the ones who explicitly
want to strike it, but also from entities willing to exploit it. The
Hacker Profiling Project (HPP) applies criminal profiling methodology to
enable analysts to identify the kind of attacker and to anticipate his
next moves. It tries to accomplish its goal by collecting
questionnaires from hackers and deploying honeynets. Altough HPP
creators, that are italians, promote their work between hackers
stating they want to break stereotypes about the hacker figure, this
sounds a bit bizarre... their real goals are quite evident to
everybody. Zone-H [28] is another attempt to suck from the underground
giving back shit to it. The archive of defaced websites lacks the good
spirit of the old Attrition.org and the primary purpose of the
portal activities is to keep high the perception of an evil hacker
menace to sell more ethical hacking courses and services. The
organization has been able to attract a few young guys and exploit them
in borderline actions (the founder has been arrested in connection to
the Telecom Italia spying scandal [29]). It seems that in italy the
more people use the word "ethical" the less they prove to really have
an ethic.

3. Muerte porque los hackers se han convertido en profesionales de la seguridad.

Like everywhere, nowadays many Italian hackers are in the security
business and have stopped releasing their advances and works through
underground channels. The problem is not the fact that they speak at
commercial cons, but the limited amount (and sometimes lack of free
access) of knowledge they usually provide in such events. Those people
largely made their bones inside the underground communities and they
learnt a lot from underground publications and releases. It is then
auspicable that hackers working in security field would keep showing
their slides at cons but also give back to the underground what it
deserves, that is a detailed view of their researches to let other
hackers study, learn from and improve (or thwart, this is part of the
game, sorry) them.

El mismo espíritu pesimista, pero a la vez realista -al menos yo lo ando sintiendo así en los últimos años-, transpira otro recomendable artículo de esta Phrack: The Underground Myth.

Me gusta y me resuena especialmente esta frase: There is no creativity, no sense of arcana anymore.

Habrá que ponerse a la tarea :)