2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2002

The 2002 volume, in which 802.11b wireless networking becomes a subject of its own and the magazine begins tracking the surveillance law passed after 11 September.

Spring runs "Transaction Based Systems," "How to Regain Privacy on the Net," "Stupid Google Tricks" and "The Definitive Guide to Phreak Boxes." "CampusWide Wide Open" and "Defeating Network Address Translation" follow. Summer prints "The Comprehensive Guide to 802.11B Wireless Networks" and "How to Break Through a Proxy or Firewall," with "The Afghan Phone System" and "Getting Into Cisco Routers." Autumn covers "Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance," "The Mysterious World of the Lerg" and "A History of '31337SP34K'," plus a review of Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception. Winter adds "Passport Hacking Revisited," "Warspying," "Honeypots: Building the Better Hacker," "Cracking Voter Fraud," "Linux on the Xbox" and "Exposing the Coinstar Network."

The Autumn editorial is "Freedom's Biggest Enemy." Together with "A New Era of Telecommunications Surveillance" in Summer and the Winter piece on the proposed CBDTPA, it sets out the legislative argument the magazine pursued for the decade.