2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2008

The 2008 volume, which runs a short story in each of its four issues and gives voice over IP, RFID and barcodes the space the magazine had once given to boxes.

Spring covers "Vhreaking with VoxALot," "Dirt-Cheap Phone Calls - The VoIP Way," "Gaming AT&T Mobility," "Hacking Two-Dimensional Barcodes," "Dissecting the EPC: RFID for the Commercial Sector," "Eavesdropping with LD_PRELOAD," "Remember CompUSA," "The EU Directive on Data Retention: Surveillance 2.0" and the story "To Kill an Atomic Subwoofer." Summer prints "Don't 'Locate Me'," "Exploring Road Runner's Internal Network," "The HughesNet FAP," "Hacking Society," "Thirteen Years of Starting a Hacker Scene," "Hacking: A Graffiti Writer's Perspective," "Capturing Botnet Malware Using a Honeypot," "JavaScript Password DOMination" and "The Geek Squad." Autumn runs "Bell's Mind Markup Language," "The TORminator," "The State of Cyberspace and Cyberwar," "Watching the Watchers," "Penetration Testing: The Red Team Way," "Blackhat SEO," "USB Antiforensics" and "Hacking Music." Winter adds an introduction to forensic data recovery, "Social Engineering the Stock Market," "Hack Thyself," "Anonymous SSH at the Library," "Pappy's Cheese Box," "Gaming Gamestop" and "Hacking WebCT."

The Last HOPE was held in New York that July. The year's guest essayists were Martin Eberhard, Barry Wels, Nick Farr and Bre Pettis.