534 DEAR HACKER

534 DEAR HACKER

Dear 2600: Just thought y’all might want to know that the production of boots is

up this year. runsetuid.root

And just what we’re supposed to do with this info is going to be the topic of discus- sion for some time.

Dear 2600:

I recently purchased the spring issue (23:1). While innocently reading your magazine, I received what I would call an assault. Your maga- zine cut me. Normally I wouldn’t complain, but as I feel that I have the right to make you listen to my opinion, I must alert you to the fact that your pages can cause quite an irritating cut. I don’t feel it is necessary to involve the authorities in this matter. However, to spare innocent hands and fingers and possible litigation, I do feel it necessary to advise you to put warning labels on your magazine suggesting that possible injury can be derived while reading your magazine. I hope you heed this advice and I look forward to reading your publication in the future injury-free and duly warned.

webbles

The only problem we had with the warning labels was that people were peeling them off and then attempting to smoke them. The chemicals that were then released neces- sitated our issuing another warning for the labels. If your issue doesn’t have these warnings prominently displayed, put it down, walk away, and alert the authorities.

Dear 2600: We would like to purchase payphone booth like the one in Saint

Petersburg, Russia. So could you please send more information and price of that booth.

Ahmed M Attef Manager Payphones

STRANGE RAMBLINGS

We don’t know what you’re up to but we fear you misunderstand what we’re all about. We don’t sell payphone booths or even payphones or for that matter phones of any kind. You’ve given us some ideas though. Best of luck in your pursuit.

Dear 2600: To my fellow conspirators, countrymen, and whom it may concern.

Guide of contents, in these pages. Of what is contained within? Indeed. What’s inside? Take a look. Ingredients: internal organs, innards. Both: Collateral and junk. Trouble indeed may be held within these discoveries of ways and means. Toward the path to knowledge, for fair visions of future far off, or evil wonders to behold. Only the following years shall hold. The contents, here within in these pages will be the ingredients and the path toward great knowledge, the wonder of which we shall see, when we’ve all grown. The great deeds we have sown have come upon us and it will matter not what have known. Here’s to 26 more years of hacking!

Do what you want with this, whether you edit it, use it, or simply despise it. Also, speak as freely as you wish with me, for I do not hide communi- cations from others (my own devices and will for this should be obvious, so I will not say) if it can be helped, but will do so if you wish.

Soho What’s scary is how much of this we actually understood.

Dear 2600: Hi,

I was just hoping to see my name in print in the letters section. Wave _ Rider _ 1899

And everything we’ve done up to this point has been orchestrated to get you to contact us. Now we can begin.