WikiLeaks, LulzSec, Shadowcrew & CarderPlanet
Neutral accounts with dated sources, legal outcomes, and the limits of what is known.
Independent research index / Original catalog and later research
History worth finding.
A navigable record of hacker publications, conference archives, and the people behind them. Search the catalog. Follow the originals.
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New evidence note: Ellis’s January 1970 theoretical encryption report, with source and date limitations. This adds one editorial evidence entry; it is not a preserved full text.
The unified search includes 18,790 entries. The October research release contributes 260 of those entries; these are catalog records and discovery leads, not 260 preserved works or complete source archives.
- 28 historical tools and their predecessors — AOL chat add-ons, programming utilities and earlier networking tools, with attribution, date uncertainty and contextual sources. No binaries hosted.
- Remote-access trojans and their countermeasures — the history of NetBus, Back Orifice and Sub7, and how defenders moved from signatures to behavioral detection, sandboxing, memory analysis and EDR. Original synthesis; no tools or code hosted.
- 42 source-discovery leads — historical archives, telephone engineering collections and security mailing lists. Evidence limits and rights status distinguish a lead from an acquired corpus.
- Browse all 260 October research additions — a crawlable list spanning eight collections, with links to individual records and their provenance.
Search historical tools · Search source leads · Read the two preserved historical RFC handbooks
Original catalog snapshot
The figures and collection cards below describe the first release. Use the research collections and unified search above for later additions.
3,477metadata records
6named collections
0full texts hosted
Read the histories. Follow the evidence.
1,430 scheduled talks & panels
Explore main-track and creator records from DEF CON 33 and 34, with speakers and session provenance.
People, ideas, and earlier roots
30 public contributor profiles → Explore sourced relationships Read seven historical pathways Black Hat source map
Explore time, identity and evidence
3D timeline & accessible history index →Real hackers, real phreaks? Twelve beliefs examined →
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2600
813 bibliographic entries from the publisher-hosted title index for volumes 1–10 (1984–1993), plus 126 issue links from the incomplete cover gallery. One title containing an apparent phone number was omitted. The index includes articles, news and letters; authors and full article bodies were not checked. The gallery includes an Autumn 2026 sidebar item but has many historical gaps. No paid material accessed.
DEF CON
1,430 unique scheduled talk/panel records from DEF CON 33–34: 222 main-track talks and 1,208 creator talks/panels. Also 33 annual event-index links (DC1–33). The separate official guide at info.defcon.org permits crawling; the defcon.org archive host disallows OpenAI agents and was not crawled further. Earlier talks, satellite events, recordings, slides and canceled/withheld status remain gaps. A schedule entry is not proof of delivery.
Phrack
Article metadata from all 72 issue contents tables currently exposed by the official site. This measures the selected tables, not every revision, special edition, or surviving copy. Authors and dates follow the publisher’s metadata; contents entries are not necessarily standalone technical papers.
Phone Losers of America
46 regular issue links plus unauthorized issue 099, as enumerated by the publisher. Dates and authors remain unknown unless separately verified. Issue 007 points to a replacement directory; no personal telephone data is imported. Historical satire is not reliable technical guidance.
TEXTFILES.COM
Collection reference only. No current file inventory was verified. Mirroring guidance does not establish blanket rights to the underlying works. Individual-file count and coverage remain unknown.
TOTSE
Collection reference to a third-party historical mirror only. No individual-file inventory imported. Mixed rights and uncertain provenance require item-level review; the mirror is not represented as official.
Research with a trail
Every record exposes its source, verification level, rights status, and check date. Download the metadata as ordinary text or JSON. No archived code is executed and no unlicensed article bodies are hosted.
Expanded archive · 16 October 2026
12,394 conference records · 3,962 technique and evidence records · 18,790 entries in unified search · Conference counts and gaps
The original 3,477-entry catalog remains separately exportable; 1,430 DEF CON records overlap the conference module and appear only once in unified search. Unknown historical denominators remain unknown. Two unchanged historical RFC originals are hosted separately; see the handbooks below.
New research collections
Browse all 260 new records and leads · Search the complete index
Two preserved historical RFCs
RFC 1244 and RFC 2196: context, provenance and unchanged plaintext. Whole reproduction permitted under the IETF Trust policy; all original notices retained. Other source works remain metadata and links unless explicitly stated otherwise.