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             "Dreams become entangled in the system"
                                      -- Anne Clark
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  Edited by:        K.L.
  Contributions by: Spider
  Email:            an615992@anon.penet.fi
  UUCP:             uunet!tnarchy!news
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  0. Table of Contents:

     1. Editorial
     2. Software Review: VFS
     3. Next Issue

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  1. Editorial

     Welcome  to the  first issue of TECHNARCHY, a  new electronic
 digest   dedicated  to  the  computer  underground.  Our  mission
 statement is to  provide quality information  and  opinion  about
 any  topic of relevance to  the  community, with special focus on
 technology and politics.

     The  time  between each issue  will  depend on the  amount of
 material we can write ourselves or get from our contributors, but
 we are aiming at putting out a new issue every month.

     Of course, reader feedback  is  welcome. So feel free to send
 us your comments, suggestions or contributions of any kind.

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  2. Software Review: VFS (by Spider)

     There has  been a  lot  of buzz  in  the  scene  around  this
 mysterious piece of software. The first rumours  about VFS talked
 about game-changing network tech, unnamed  gov agencies...  truly
 Area 51-level stuff.  But nobody seemed to have actually SEEN it.

     Well,  I'm  glad  to  announce that  I  managed to score some
 binaries! I won't get into details on the process, let it just be
 said that I had to pull some  strings in dark corners of the Net.

     Long story short,  this  thing  is unlike anything  I've ever
 used before.  It installs  like a regular  program,  and from the
 user's perspective it operates unassumingly like a command shell.

     The brilliant  part is how  VFS seems to expose a filesystem-
 like representation of the internals of any device connected to a
 network.  I  tried it  on  my  own  boxen  and it  bypassed every
 protection, software  or hardware, with zero manual intervention.
 It cut through the network like a hot knife through butter.  WTF!

     So how does it do this?  I can only say  some  kind  of  deep
 magic must be involved. Personally, I'm  betting on a combination
 of  quantum computing and an  arcane, yet undiscovered "OSI Layer
 -1" connecting through the astral plane (just kidding of course).

     This  means,  forget  about  social  engineering for  access,
 cracking  passwords  or  hunting  0-day  exploits  for  privilege
 escalation.  The user  experience is  surreal, like wearing X-ray
 glasses. Just unbelievable.

     Is  this  thing  suddenly turning us all into script kiddies?
 What will  happen  if (or when)  VFS  goes  mainstream?  It  will
 be interesting to find  out,  that's for sure.  In  the meantime,
 my advice is to get it, keep the secret and enjoy while it lasts.

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  3. Next Issue

     It  wasn't quite ready for this  issue,  but we have  a piece
 in the  pipeline  about  the  tech behind  Empyreum. These  folks
 are  announcing  a  service  with  bleeding-edge crypto and self-
 sustaining  shelter  technology.  The target here  is clearly the
 high  end survivalist crowd.  If they deliver, this would fulfill
 some libertarian fantasies out there. And if they don't, it could
 at  least  be  a  clever scheme  to milk paranoid tech moguls for
 their excess cash.

     Watch your mailbox or the doc section of your favorite BBS!

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              TECHNARCHY e-zine, Volume I, Issue #001          EOF
