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Fall 2004 (21:3) 2600 Issue

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is a traditional (printed) magazine named for the fact that phreakers in the 1960s found that the transmission of a 2600 Hertz tone (which could be produced perfectly with a plastic toy whistle given away free with Cap'n Crunch cereal—discovered by friends of John Draper) over a long-distance trunk connection gained access to "operator mode" and allowed the user to explore aspects of the telephone system that were not otherwise accessible. The magazine is published by Eric Corley and his company, 2600 Enterprises, Inc., and specializes in publishing technical information on telephone switching systems, satellite descrambling codes, and news about the computer underground.


2600 has established the H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conferences as well as meetings in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States which take place on the first Friday of the month at 5 pm local time in New York City. The New York meetings were followed by afterparties at the Hacker Halfway House in Brooklyn, until Hacker Halfway House stopped them on 26 August 2004. 2600 Meetings exist as a forum for all interested in technology to meet and talk about events in technology-land, learn, and teach. Meetings are open to anyone regardless of age or level of expertise.


2600 Films has made a feature length documentary about famed hacker Kevin Mitnick, the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world, entitled Freedom Downtime.


Additionally the 2600 has been involved in many court cases related to technology and freedom of speech alongside the Electronic Frontier Foundation.




External links

  • 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (http://www.2600.com/)
  • Hacker Halfway House (http://www.hackerhalfwayhouse.org/)
  • Tokyo 2600 (http://www.tokyo2600.com/)
  • oc2600.com (http://www.oc2600.com/)
  • London 2600 (http://london2600.org.uk/)
  • Helsinki 2600 (http://www.2600.fi/)
  • Melbourne 2600 (http://melbourne.2600.org.au/)
  • Sydney 2600 (http://www.2600.org.au/)

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CNN In-Depth Specials - Hackers - Q&A with Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 (2774 words)
QandA with Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600: The Hacker's Quarterly
I think hackers are necessary, and the future of technology and society itself (freedom, privacy, etc.) hinges on how we address the issues today that hackers are very much a part of.
So every time a movie like "Hackers" comes out, 10 million people from AOL send us e-mail saying they want to be hackers, too, and suddenly, every 12-year-old with this sentiment instantly becomes a hacker in the eyes of the media and hence, the rest of society.
Eric Corley (237 words)
Eric Corley is viewed as a leader of the computer hacker community and goes by the name "Emmanuel Goldstein[?]", after the leader of the underground in George Orwell’s classic, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
He and his company, 2600 Enterprises, Inc., together publish a magazine called 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, which Corley founded in 1984, and which is widely respected in the hacker community.
The name "2600" was derived from the fact that phreakers in the 1960s found that the transmission of a 2600-hertz tone over a long-distance trunk connection gained access to "operator mode" and allowed the user to explore aspects of the telephone system that were not otherwise accessible.
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