<story><title>Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)</title><url>http://phrack.org/archives/issues/49/14.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyper_reality</author><text>What a classic! Phrack stopped publishing some time ago but the world of security ploughs on, who can recommend similar modern resources to Phrack?&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a few I&amp;#x27;m aware of:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alchemistowl.org&amp;#x2F;pocorgtfo&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alchemistowl.org&amp;#x2F;pocorgtfo&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;secret.club&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;secret.club&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)</title><url>http://phrack.org/archives/issues/49/14.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tekstar</author><text>This article, and then working through the book &amp;quot;Hacking and the Art of Exploitation&amp;quot; taught me the true fundamentals of the C programming language, and Linux.  The other key ingredient was working through the classic &amp;quot;digital evolution&amp;quot; wargames where you&amp;#x27;d SSH into a box as level1 and work your way up from there.</text></comment>