From: Dave Aitel (daveimmunitysec.com)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 19:40:45 CST

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http://www.phrack.org/fakes/

One thing I like about Phrack is that its very nature is a meta-hacker
joke. For example, if two things are identified by the same thing, are
they necessarally the same? Being able to deal with ambiquity is good.
Laughing at namespace collision is perhaps a harmless side effect of the
way people who are good at hacking think.

This is one of my favs.
http://www.phrack.org/fakes/p63/p63-0x09.txt

In particular I like the stuff:

Highly learned people such as high school graduates and CISSPs will tell
you that VMWare, with the exception of the host's MAC address on its
network interfaces, is undetectable and that anything a hacker could do
would work just as well on a VMWare host as it would on a system
"running under its own power". This would truly be nice if it were not
also absolutely incorrect.

...

Standards:
        Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1

This is more telling. Look at your cdrom. VMware does give sufficient
information in the device's identity. Since before I ever logged
on to the Internet, before the days of the Pentium Pro, drives were
using ATAPI-2. The reason hdparm lists the standards as "Likely
used CD-ROM ATAPI-1" is because VMware does not return any determining
information -- hdparm is left guessing. This is a limitation of the
program code, and more telling then the Serial number or Firmware revision.

Also:
--[ 1. Background

   For all you trivia fans out there who may have enjoyed playing the
'6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon,' I now introduce a new and fascinating game
with a hacking/IRC twist! The name of the game is, as you may have
guessed, 'The 6 Degrees of Jobe' and there are several ways to play...
some more challenging than others.

  Intuitively, the game is to show that Jobe is at the center of the
hacking universe. The goal is two link two arbitrary people through Jobe,
in no more than 6 links. There are a few ways to play:
    
        linking people through those who KNOW jobe
        linking people through those who have OWNED jobe

Sometimes, a few more than 6 links are needed, especially to establish a
very strong link. What we could have done sometimes flimsily in 6 links,
we chose to do in more just to be convincing.

hahahahaha. That's just great comedy.
-dave

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