2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2000

The 2000 volume, published while 2600 was itself the defendant in the case the major film studios brought over the DVD descrambling code DeCSS.

Spring runs "A Taste of Freedom," "How to Stay a Sysadmin," "Military Computer Secrets," "All About Securid," "AT&T's Gaping Hole," "How PSX Copy Protection Works," "How to Build a Coffee Box" and "How Does That DSS Card Really Work?" Summer covers system profiling, biometrics, "Strange Abuses For Your Home Phone," packet analysis, "Secrets of Dell," "How Domains Are Stolen," Java applet hacking and an interview with Jello Biafra. Autumn, under the editorial "A Summer of Trials," prints "DeCSS in Words," kernel modification with LKMs, "Hunting the Paper Carnivore," anomaly detection systems, "Accessing Federal Court Records" and "Build a Car Computer." Winter adds BellSouth's Mobitex network, Sub7, "Get Anyone's Credit Report For Free," "The DVD Paper Chain," "Hacking an NT Domain from the Desktop" and "Jury Nullification and The Hacker."

Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes was tried in New York that July and decided in August. "DeCSS in Words" and "The DVD Paper Chain" were both written under the injunction that came out of it.