2600: The Hacker Quarterly, September 1986

The third year, which opens with the Private Sector board coming back online and closes on cellular telephony, the technology that would occupy the magazine for the next decade.

"Private Sector Returning" leads the year, followed by "Divestiture: What Happened?" two years after the AT&T break-up. Construction and code run throughout: blue box programs, "An Overview of AUTOVON and Silver Boxes," "Mobile Phones - Theory & Construction," "Boxing on ITT" and "Cellular Telephones - How They Work." Systems coverage finishes the VMS series and adds "RSTS For Beginners," "Knowing UNIX," "How To Hack a Pick" and "Violating a Vax." The newsletter also prints "Exploits in Operator Hell," "A Story of Eavesdropping," "The Free Phones of Philly," "Death of a Pay Phone" and "Trashing: America's Source for Information," with number lists for Winnipeg, London and Britain's boards.

Two reviews record how the subject was being written about elsewhere, The Computer Underground and a computer crime review. "The Computel Scoop" opens a story the newsletter finished the following year, and "Things We're Not Supposed To Know About" closes the volume.