Welcome to yet another new chapter debuting this month in Happle. For the benefit of those who have only recently been readmitted into society, the purpose of this chapter is to give you a soapbox of sorts to air your views, vent some steam, or perhaps ask some questions (bear in mind that I am not a particularly intelligent man, so you might get more luck at Ask Jeeves :P )
If you want to send us a letter, you can either email Jambo@phreaker.net or upload your letter to the files/Submissions/Letters Drop Box at hotline://169.3.136.94
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Dear Happle,
...OK so maybe we shouldn't have a "Dear Happle" section.
But here's something I propose for all you would be Hackintosh/Underground participants out there...
PARTICIPATE!
I propose we have a Happle Challenge in each edition of the zine.
This section will post the best challenges submitted by readers (or anyone else, for that matter), and the person who comes up with the most savvy solution to the last challenge will get it posted in this section as well.
Who knows? The Happle editors may just have some sort of reward for an elegant solution (hint hint...)
Here's one challenge:
Stuffit Deluxe 5 encryption
Now that Aladdin's compression product has come to yet another new compression scheme, they've done away with that easily cracked built in encryption, and replaced it with something that actually looks half decent...
Now if only the Stuffit Deluxe 5 package also looked halfway decent.
Anyway, here's a proposed challenge:
Come up with a way to read encrypted SD5 files.
That's it. Of course, you have to share your solution with the rest of us...
-This will be a boon to all those who have forgotten their passwords, and have stuffit files drifting away into oblivion....
--Adespoton.
[ An excellent suggestion, Ade, and one which I'd very much like to see solved; I refuse to believe Aladdin have an even half-way decent encryption system. Any takers..? ]
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to the editor,
greetings, and all that. i have an idea for the magazine. how about setting a few challenges for the less experienced hackers out there? you know like filtching around on local networks, and email tricks, using wingates, finding wingates, agnetmonitoring, and ip spoofing, all the way up to crashing international banking software and suchlike. the upper echelons of difficulty could be included as competitions, with the winner getting........an all expenses paid eqo trip chat session on happle hl to explain how they did it.
yours, irreverence
[ Bizarrely enough, we had several letters of this sort, so I guess Happle now has an offical challenge section. Correspondance to the usual address ]
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Dear Happle,
I liked the zine very much. Soon after I started reading it though, I had an idea...
you should include a section wil miscellaneous information <ie a list of wingates, that modkill string for ping of death, maybe even some of ST's submissions etc..>.
It would be cool just to have lists of usefull stuff and direct information that you can use instead of all ideas and walkthroughs.
If that makes any sense to you, I'll come up with some stuff to put in...
The zine is also MUCH prettier and there was more content than any issue so far. I liked it better than HA...
Later,
PP
[ Never let it be said that we don't take suggestions on board! Turn to chapter XXXX for more details. As for your comment at the end there.. well, all I can say is it's inevitable that people will compare us with Hackaddict magazine, and I doubt we will ever reach the standard of excellence it has left, but we're not trying to improve on anything that has come before us; we just want Happle to be liked for what it is. Cheers for the feedback ]
