Ubiquitous Issue 1 File 1: Welcome

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Ubiquitous

· 2 years ago

Editor: mE!

Welcome to Issue 1 of Ubiquitous, a new Australian E-Zine aimed at the computer underground. My reasoning for producing yet another E-Zine is because I'm sick and tired on seeing zines (especially Australian ones) go up and down all the time never usually producing more than one or two issues. How about the American scene? Phrack never gets published any more, neither does CoTNo or a million others I could mention. WHO† CARES anyway the underground scene is shot to shit and recent zines are simply a reflection of this state of affairs. So am I here to save the day? Yeah right!! Not without feedback and input from the rest of you I'm not; a magazine like this (being irrelevant of who the fuck is publishing it) could have the potential to give the underground a kick in the arse and bring back the free thinking inquisitiveness and antiauthoritarian sentiment of days where groups like the Legion of Doom ruled supreme.

So what is it all about?

First of all what does Ubiquitous mean? Hmmm! The best way to describe that is to quote the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary:

ubiquit | y n. omnipresence, being everywhere or in an indefinite number of places at once; ~ous a. [L (ubique everywhere)]

Ok so that's the dictionary meaning so what does it mean in terms of the Computer Underground? Well just like the government is watching us from every angle, seeming to be everywhere, this is the same tactic we need to keep a little freedom for ourselves. Our presence needs to be† UBIQUITOUS!! If you don't understand what the fuck I'm on about, then forget it and just read on.

The Zine will cover general Hacking and Phreaking related topics, but won't simply stop there. I hope to cover how we, and the government and many other entities have an effect on society, and indeed the whole of humanity. It will also stray from H/P related matters and even the computer underground occasionally, looking at the broader effects of the human races seemingly desperate insane desire for power over each other. With that said, lets look at what it will NOT include. There will be NO racism or pathetic attacks on other minority groups. This zine will attempt to operate without fear or favour towards people of any fucking nationality, sex, race, colour, religous belief, preference of sex, computer, or breakfast cereal for that matter!! And NO I'm not trying to be fucking politically correct, I just want to open this zine up for everyone. Ok secondly, there won't be any bullshit conspiracy stories (about the NSA selling cows testicles in sausages etc!!) which have NO reasonable backing. I don't mind opinions of such things if it can be backed up with QUALITY evidence, but none of this bullshit X-Files crap OK!! Finally I will try to avoid defaming any person or entity without evidence or without stating that the comments are of my opinion and not necessarily of provable fact. You will get the general gist of this zine as time goes by and you will know the general structure of it and what it stands for. (Free thinking, privacy, and freedom of information/speech.) OK†, on with the show.
(I assume you have read the README.1ST file. If not READ IT NOW! you are not authorized to read this until you do!!)

Editorial:

Doesn't it make you puke all this bullshit that seasoned computer users have to put up with. Remember the old days (when I say old days, I merely mean around 3 years ago!!) when the Internet was a self regulating, non central entity? Remember how you could read news and not have to wade through a whole heap of right wing or religous bullshit just to find the articles you wanted to read? How about the fact that the TCP/IP connections weren't absolutely clogged up with the millions of new lamers who use the net now. Or should I say TRY to use the net!! I can remember the good old days of ftp'ing a file and receiving it the same day!! How about when there were no crappy trendy terms like:†"Information SuperHighway!" (oh god I think I'm gonna be sick!!), or "Surf the Web" or every word having fucking "CYBER" in front of it!!

Remember those days? I do. I remember the time when AARNET was what it actually claimed to be: The Australian Academic and Research Network. Now its run by Telstra who are in bed with the likes of Bill Gates and Rupert fuckhead Murdoch. That free network which encouraged freedom of speech and ordered anarchy is gone. What has replaced it is a mess of bungling losers and commercial service providers (ISP'S) who don't know the difference between telnet and telenet!

You'd better remember those days, cause we won't see the likes of them again. Information is trendy and not the free commodity it used to be.