2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2016
The 2016 volume, published through an American election year the magazine covers with a Twitter bot experiment in the Spring issue and a parallel president in the Autumn.
Spring runs "Scraping for Cache," "Hacking Using Parse Database Injection," "Defense Against the Black Arts of Forensics" and "A Plan 9 Primer." It also prints "Exif Location Recon with Python," "Eleventh Graders and Nuclear Bombs" and "Reconnaissance at Spa World." Summer covers "Pre-Surveillance of Law Enforcement Using Targeted Advertising," "Abandoned Routers: Forgotten, But Not Gone," "Card Transactions Explained" and "To Hack an Uber." Autumn takes in "Hacking for Knowledge," "MOV Before You JMP," "A Captive Portal Puzzle at Sea," "Building DIY Community Mesh Networks" and "Verizon's HOPE Scam." Winter adds "Rescuing Fake Memory Devices," "The Coca-Cola Blacklist," "Using Discord Servers to HTTP Flood," "Spying Across Borders in the Age of Email" and "Rotten Apples: OS X 101."
The Winter issue announces the 2600 Leak Department and opens "Successful Network Attacks," a five-part series that ran on through the following volume.