I'm not a subscriber (I pay in cash at Microcenter and decline to give personal information, thankyouverymuch), so this is a pretty old issue (Spring 2003), but there's some interesting stuff. I've always been amused by the cross section evident in 2600. You've got the true security researchers (who are floating papers in things like this and Phrack that they intend to present at Defcon or the Black Hat Briefings) and old-fashioned Phone Phreakers (yeah, still around; great article on spoofing ANI and CID numbers in this very issue… short version: use 10-10-280-0) along with a heap of wannabes… and then all the letters from highschool kids whining about school web filters or punishment for doing something other than the class work they'd been told to do on school computers. At the least, it's good shitter reading, and ususally lasts me between issues of Wired. (european car isn't shitter reading; it's back porch reading.)
There's plenty of “who cares?” kind of stuff: a Windows-centric article on ripping DVDs to CD-R (for “backup”), Best Buy's Intranet problems, how Krogers' (I'm not going to bother finding their real URL; http://www.krogers.com/ is too amusing a non-sequitur to pass up) in-store 802.11b is exploitable, and how to “defeat” salon.com's Premium Content (um, yeah, because I really want to read their trash).
There's a reference to this, which appears to the the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (23-page-long) emergency call list. The sender (”shaggyeightball”–he must be truly 1337) suggests “They keep moving it!”, but it was still there when I went looking. Oh well, whatever. Looks to be all office numbers; I don't see what the fuss is.
What looks to be a decent description on how anonymous remailers work and how to use them, which is nice, but something those with a clue have been doing for over a decade now. A search-and-replace Nigerian scam email presenting GW as the scammer, which is one of those “funny in concept, but I'll be damned if I'm reading the whole page” kind of things.
The Marketplace has the usual crap (”LEARN LOCK PICKING”, “CAP'N CRUNCH WHISTLES”, and the two lawyers willing represent mis(?)-accused hackers), plus hackerstickers.com, a thinkgeek-alike that carries this clever sidestepping of Marshall Kirk McKusick's copyright.
The only thing that leaves me really curious is a reference to some new magazine, “Slicer's Guild”, in the Marketplace. “For only $5 (U.S.), find out why we call ourselves “slicers” and why our hacker magazine is complementary to 2600 and not competitive.” I imagine that this is just some kid trying to be cool, but what is intended by the “slicer” term is somewhat interesting. (Fwiw, “slicer's guild” and variations on Google don't seem to turn up much.)
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