Hello once again and welcome to Happle Magazine - now with 68% of the EC's vitamin RDA (eight out of ten cats can't tell the difference!)
Before I launch into my usual repertoire of useless information about this month's issue, I would like to take a moment (or a jiffy, depending on which is longer) to talk about an issue close to all of our hearts: Smurf.
Yes, I know what you're thinking; yet another magazine to jump on the bandwagon and publish a 'how to smurf' article.
How wrong you are.
Obviously, LIE‚Ñ¢ could have just put in a half-hearted piece explaining how you compile a script in your shell, but he hasn't. Instead, he's written an excellent article describing how smurf works, why it works, and why it shouldn't be abused. Although I am not really in any position to pass comment, I feel it is one of, if not the, best papers that Happle has included. My thanks go out to Lethal Intelligence Extasy for producing a paper that deals with a potentially controversial subject with great care and maturity. And for submitting it to us :)
Anyway, enough of my pontification.
This issue (possibly our best yet; certainly our biggest,) we feature two excellent articles on qpop and windows 'security', brought to you by my boy Ferrocyanide who, along with producing two great articles, has made a luverly unix security archive at Happle HL. For those of you who want to take a peek at his work, fire up your Hotline client, connect to 169.3.136.94, and look in root/File Archive/Security/Unix.
Further to Ferro's contributions, we feature work from Big Brother, who has decided that, rather than spend an inorbitant amount of time on his website, it would be more beneficial for him to contribute to Happle. Check out his stuff in chapters 5 & 13. Which leads me nicely on to the next paragraph...
...Which tells you all about our much-requested new 'Shortcuts' section (enjambment, topic sentence... what more could an english teacher ask for? Less parenthesis and rhetoric? Fair enough.) I beg of you not to simply dismiss this new section on account of its attrocious title; I recieved so many requests for a chapter of this type that I simply could not refuse :)
And the fun doesn't stop there, either. We have also been blessed with papers on obtaining passwords right from your computer's memory, spoofing email headers and even (gasp!) how to override the security of a certain university's computer department.
Now I suspect a fair few of you will be surprised at the inclusion of such an article, as I am not in the habit of describing how to compromise specific systems. However, the paper does describe a few basic tricks that are worthwhile noting down if you intend to tackle any mac security package, and for this reason I have included it.
In the spirit of evolution (which sounds a lot like 'devolution' - people of scotland, on the 6th of may, vote SNP! http://www.snp.org.uk,) Happle has gone through another round of changes this month. As well as the new clippings chapter, we introduce a letters to the editor section, which promises plenty of flames in the coming months. Unfortunately, what with all the changes made this month, we didn't have time to implement everything we would have liked, so in issue#10 look out for the return (by popular demand, I may add) of our underground news section, and the retiral of our links chapter, which I feel has gotten a little old in the tooth. Your opinion on these intended changes is, as always, more than welcome.
My profuse thanks to all those fantastic people who made issue#09 of Happle magazine possible; they own you.
