Port7Alliance
Port7Alliance was a North American hacker group responsible for production of the internet based magazine Radical Future. Radical Future's presence as an online magazine was of cultural significance to the online American hacker community. The e-zine was freely distributed online as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file and consisted of five issues.[1][2]
History
Port7Alliance was thought of by a 14-year-old computer enthusiast named Darien, on January 13, 2001 after watching an IBM commercial featuring Avery Brooks. Avery Brooks explains the definition of an epiphany in the commercial.[3]
Darien then took on the hacker handle of 'Epiphany'. To promote the Port7alliance, Epiphany wrote his own manifesto concerning the significance of the term computer hacker. The manifesto, simply titled Epiphany has been archived by textfiles.com.[4]
Two members of the group published the article "McWireless Exposed" in the Summer 2003 issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.[5] Photos of DEF CON XI taken by Port7alliance were published in a book in 2004.[6]
Radical Future ezine
In the Spring of 2002, Port7alliance released their first issue of Radical Future.
Radical Future ran intermittently from the Spring of 2002 to the Spring of 2004 and was briefly available for sale in printed form.
Present time
Port7Alliance has disbanded. However, its site is still live. Certain members of Port7alliance can still be found at hacker cons such as DEF CON or H.O.P.E.
See also
References
- ↑ "Radical Future". textfiles.com. Retrieved 2026-08-22.
- ↑ "Radical Future, Issue 4". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2026-08-22.
- ↑ this commercial Archived 2006-11-09 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Epiphany - We Must Regain Our Freedom
- ↑ Epiphany; J0hny_Lightning (Summer 2003). "McWireless Exposed". 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Vol. 20, no. 2. p. 40.
- ↑ Weber, Michael J. (2004). Invasion of Privacy! Big Brother and the Company Hackers. Premier Press. p. 113. ISBN 1-59200-043-6 – via Internet Archive.