2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 1999

The 1999 volume, in which nmap, Netbus and Tripwire arrive in the pages beside the payphone and scanner articles the magazine had been running for fifteen years.

Spring covers vehicle tracking with AVI and ETTM, "Cracking the Time-Banc System," "Wreaking Havoc with Netbus," internet peering, "Fun with Tripwire," "A Hacker's Guide to Getting Busted," an overview of SS7, network scanning with nmap and hacking a Sony PlayStation. Summer prints "Securing Your Linux Box," "Fun at Costco," "Broad Band via the Earth," "Secrets of Copy Protection," two facing articles on parents spying on their children, "The Future of IPV6" and pushbutton lock hacking. Autumn runs "Upload Bombing," "The Terrorist of Orange, Texas," ITS prison phones, "Infiltrating Mediaone," forging ping packets, "Quantum Hacking," Protel COCOTs and an overview of Cellemetry. Winter adds "Accessing Forbidden NTFS Drives," "DATUs - The Tool of the New Age Phreak," "I Own Your Car!," POCSAG and FLEX interception, "Hack The Media" and "Why Redboxing Doesn't Work."

"Why Redboxing Doesn't Work" closes an argument the magazine had run since 1988. "Why Redboxing Still Works (sorta)" answered it four years later.