2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 1997

The 1997 volume, which follows the arrival of GSM and cable modems in North America while the campaign for Kevin Mitnick runs through every issue.

Spring prints "Hacking LED Signs," "Use Your Skills to Escape Boot Camp," "Poor Man's Access," "Consequences of .gov/.mil Hacking," "Credit Card Numbers Via Calculators," cellular programming data, "How To Hack Tech Support," a letter from prison and "How To Legally Use a Red Box." Summer covers cable modem security holes, "GSM Comes to North America," "The Wonders of Net2Phone," "Those Pesky Mylar Strips," "Fortezza: The Next Clipper?," "Tricks and Treats of the Autovon" and "The Ins and Outs of Metrocard Gold." Autumn runs "How To Get Busted by the Feds," "Hacking Fedex," "Brute Forcing the World," "Hacking the Vote," "The EZPass System" and "Secrets of Walmart." Winter adds "The Medical Information Bureau," "TCP/IP Basics and Shortcomings," "The Ominous GETS," "The Potential of Mobil Speedpass," "The Argentinian Phone System" and "Spying on Yahoo."

The MetroCard and E-ZPass articles begin the magazine's long attention to transit fare systems, which runs on through "New York City's MTA Exposed" in 2005 and "Hacking NYC MTA Kiosks" in 2021.