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+title = 2600
+author = ["MichaƂ Sapka"]
+date = 2024-01-12T21:23:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2003
+abstract = "Short impression of 2600 magazine"
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+
+For quite some time I've been looking for a magazine to read.
+In my younger days, reading computer game magazines was the best thing.
+Way before the ~~internet~~ big tech ruined everything, polish gamers have already found a safe haven.
+In the dark days of post-communistic 90s, we were feeling like living in the future.
+
+And then they, one by one, died.
+Killed by "free" sites filled with ads and sponsored content.
+
+It may very well be anachronistic to wait for a review that will not even move on the screen.
+But this is exactly what I found to be great about them - slow moving, regular, without much fuss, much more deliberate.
+
+I've been reading quite a few magazines recently, but finally I have found the one which fills me with passion - just like the ones from my childhood.
+Now I have something to wait from, to learn from and, well, feel to be a part of it.
+
+I have finally found **2600**[^fn:1].
+
+What is 2600 you ask?
+Well, the magazine self-describes as _The Hacker Quarterly_ and it fully shows the purpose.
+It's a magazine written, edited and read by _hackers_ that is released since 1984[^fn:2]
+Hackers in the _original_ sense of the word - tinkerers trying to expand what is possible to do with electronic devices.
+Other than that, the team behind 2600 also organized **Hope**, a hacker-focused conference (known as what Defcon was when Defcon was good. I've never been to either one, so I'm just repeating) and even made a few movies.
+They were also very involved in the "Free Kevin"[^fn:3] campaign.
+
+All in all, 2600 encompasses everything that is good about computer-oriented communities, and it rejects the current status quo of closed, surveillance based systems.
+
+It's not that this is the first time I've heard of it, but with the digital version, it finally became economically sane to get familiar.
+
+Funny enough, I've bought my first issue late in December - just a few days before the next issue came out.
+After finishing those two, I feel extremely satisfied.
+I don't remember when was the last time I wanted to read a magazine from cover to cover.
+This is exactly what the doctor ordered.
+
+The biggest shock for me was how _soft_ the magazine is.
+On the Internet, all _hackers sites_ focus on the technical stuff.
+_2600_ also has some articles that are strictly technical, but there's not much of them.
+It is, however, full of _hacker_ culture.
+For me, as a _hacker_ much more in _spirit_ than in _abilities_, this is simply wonderful.
+
+It seems that U found what I was looking for a long ass time.
+All this, because 2600 is finally available as digital download.
+I need to give my data to make the payment, but the PDF comes without any DRM.
+Beats paying dozens USD just for shipping by a mile!
+
+Though paying by Monero would be much more l33t.
+
+Finally, as part of [The Email Project](/blog/2024/email-project/) I have emailed the editing team.
+A significant portion of these 2 issues I've bought is occupied by letters from readers.
+
+
+## Contents of Winter 2023/2024 issue (40-4) {#contents-of-winter-2023-2024-issue--40-4}
+
+{{< img-r "2600-40-4.webp" >}}
+Cover of issue 40-4
+{{< /img-r >}}
+
+- The Road Behind
+- The Dark Side of DNA Data
+- The BoneBox
+- Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
+- Career and Gloating in Las Vegas
+- TELECOM INFORMER
+- Enhance Your Typing Experience With Mechanical Keyboards
+- Adventures in Lockpicking
+- Ooops; v97.129
+- Geo-Distributed Bug Bounty Hunting
+- Being a Hacker
+- Byte-Sized Justice: A Tale of Hacker Ethics and Copy Protection
+- A Quick Intro to Biohacking
+- HACKER PERSPECTIVE
+- Privacy: Protecting Your Personal Information Online
+- The AI Risk Nobody Seems to Mention
+- American Shanzhai, Part 4
+- EFFECTING DIGITAL FREEDOM
+- Quantum Computer Algorithms, Part III: DES Decryption
+- GPT Revolution: Reimagining Programming in the Era of AI
+- Snitched Out by Tech
+- I Fight for the Users
+- ARTIFICIAL INTERRUPTION
+- Platform Capitalism Can't Surveil Absurdism (and Worse)
+- Alzheimer's and AR Tech
+- Book Review: Pegasus
+- Book Review: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
+
+
+## Contents of Autumn 2023 issue (40-3) {#contents-of-autumn-2023-issue--40-3}
+
+{{< img-r "2600-40-3.webp" >}}
+Cover of issue 40-3
+{{< /img-r >}}
+
+- Memories to Come
+- Designing an OpenAI Powered IRC Chat Bot for Fun and Profit
+- Cute App, But I'll Use My Own
+- Saying Goodbye to an Old (GPFS) Friend
+- TELECOM INFORMER
+- The Arrival of 2600 Digital Delivery
+- Why Aren't You Cracking Your Users' Passwords?
+- A Technology Life Story
+- Social Engineering is Forever
+- Is AI More of a Tool or an Ethical Challenge?
+- Quantum Proof Encryption
+- But I Don't Want a Copilot
+- HACKER PERSPECTIVE
+- Diskless Malware
+- Hacking the Airwaves
+- Adventures in Zero Trust
+- American Shanzhai, Part 3
+- EFFECTING DIGITAL FREEDOM
+- Go On a Journey
+- Morbid Curiosity in the Weaponized AI Era
+- See You on the C-Drive (A Series of Late 20th Century Fragments)
+- ARTIFICIAL INTERRUPTION
+- Is 2600 Still Relevant?
+- Learn Linux, People!
+- WasteTrackers and More
+
+
+## Meta {#meta}
+
+- Read as PDF on Onyx Boox Note Air 2.
+- Issues bought from [2600.com store](https://2600.com) &lt;BR&gt;
+- Next up: back to "Hacking APIs". It's great!
+
+[^fn:1]: [Official website of 2600](https://2600.com)
+[^fn:2]: that's one year older than me!
+[^fn:3]: [How the Free Kevin Movement Changed the Cyber Security Industry](https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/blog/how-the-free-kevin-movement-changed-the-cyber-security-industry) \ No newline at end of file