Section 5 - Resources

The following sources may be of interest

A very good list of resources is available in the alt.2600 faq, but these are my recommendations

5.1 On the net

[ Some One Fill in the gaps please :) ]

(The exact locations for most of the below can be found on ColdFires Web Page)

5.1.1 Newsgroups

alt.ph.uk - This group !
alt.2600 - Hacking & Cracking
alt.dcom.telecom - Telecom
alt.hackers - Hacking (in the old sense of the word)
alt.cellular-phone-tech - Mobile Phones
alt.security - Computer Security
comp.dcom.telecom - Telecom [moderated]
comp.dcom.telecom.tech - Technical telecom
comp.dcom.cellular - Cellular telecom
comp.security.unix - Unix security
comp.security.misc - Computer Security
uk.telecom - UK Telecom Issues

5.1.2 Web Pages

5.1.3 FTP

5.1.4 Mailing Lists

Firewalls
mail majordomo@greatcircle.com put subscribe firewalls-digest in the body of the message

Orange
Check out http://info.mcc.ac.uk/Orange for more details

Hacknuk
(see section 4.4)

5.1.5 Mags-EZines

Phrack - this is a UK mirror of the phrack archives
CuD
Condor
P/H-UK

5.1.6 TV & Film

Unauthorized Access
War Games, Sneakers et al :)
Hackers You can decide if the www page hack was a publicity stunt :)
The Net [ (anyone got a pal version yet ??) ]

5.2 In Print

5.2.1 Mags

2600 magazine (Available at Tower Records, London)
Wired (The US version)
Mondo 2000
Something Postmaster@hacknet sent me That I've not had time to add

5.2.2 Books

(About Hackers)

Cyberpunk: Outlaw & Hackers on the computer Frontier
Katie Hafner and John Markoff - ISBN 1-872180-94-9 (3 Accounts in one book, Mitniks Early Years, widely discredited by people close to him. Pengo and The Chaos Computer Club (which ties in with The Cuckoo's Egg') and Robert 'Internet Worm' Morris.
The Cuckoo's Egg
Clifford Stoll (Techno Hippy get compulsive about East German Hacker)
Hackers
Steven Levy (Early days of Old-Style MIT hackers)
Approaching Zero [ WHO EVER LEECHED MY COPY, CAN I HAVE IT BACK ! ]
Beating the System (Hackers, Phreakers and Electronic Spies)
Owen Bowcott and Sally Hamiliton. ISBN: 7475 0513 6
Computer Hacking: Detection and Protection, Sigma Press 1995?, UK - ISBN 1-85058-538-5

(About Systems)

Any Tech Ref Manual you can lay your hands on. Far too many to mention

5.3 Phone numbers

UK Interesting phone numbers

Check out the uk.telecom FAQ for a good starting list of phone numbers

Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 6