This history is a very detailed and focused one and I really love the way most information is documented with links. It is a very useful source of primary and secondary documents...Read more
2021/08/30 : Dennis Fisher writes a three-part series upon the evolution of bug bounties since they get birth. Here is the first part, talking about "the hackers who turned a niche idea into a worldwide ...Read more
2018/03/07 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the second part, when L0pht began to be known.
Click here to read Part One, Part Three and...Read more
01/2020: Here's a documented though critical history of PGP, with insightful links. Providing several consensual (or at least presented so) arguments and documents, the author argues that PGP is dead. However, the article ommits to mention that 2019 witnessed the emergence or fostering of...Read more
2021/09/01 : Dennis Fisher writes a three-part series upon the evolution of bug bounties since they get birth.
Here is the third part, talking about how "during Barack...Read more
1883/01 : Auguste Kerckhoffs writes the first part of « La cryptographie militaire » in Journal des sciences militaires (vol. IX, pp. 5–38).
2018/03/08 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the third part, when "[p]ieces in The Washington Post, Wired, and many other outlets raised the group's profile and brought its work to the attention of people far outside the hacker...Read more
N.B. I'm aware that the author's goal was very different from mine. The criticisms I will mention are more addressed to myself than to his work.
This history is an interesting one...Read more
10 years after its release, Philip Zimmermann remembered why he wrote PGP and published it on the Internet as a free and open source software program in June 1991.Read more
2018/03/06 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the first part.
"L0pht [was] one of the more influential hacker crews of the last 25 years. They were the varsity."
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May 2010 : Steven Levy writes this famous book upon the evolution of thoughts and actions within the hacker community since their start.Read more