The spring 2011 issue of your favourite quarterly newspaper about doing things you’re not supposed to is here! Enjoy Duncan Gough‘s “Macroscope app”, hear about the hacks that stopped Hitler, admire the studio of the Feltmistress, see inside a safe with resident locksmith Bosley Fetcher, plus 25 years of Challenger, Helen Keen, hacking TV signals, Wikileaks, free money, The Hobbit, Babbage revivals, phone hacking, cryptography, and loads more.

See the full contributors list.

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There are still some copies of issue 1 available. It’s the same price, so just order using the button below and make a note on your Paypal order (or email me) if you’d like to buy one.

Prices

1 x Hackers! issue 2 (+ UK postage) £4.75 1 x Hackers! issue 2 (+ EU postage) £5.50 1 x Hackers! issue 2 (+ International postage) £6.50 1 x Hackers! issue 2 (Collect in person) £4.00

Issues are generally posted out, but if you’d like to pick one up from the Newspaper Club offices in Shoreditch, stop by anytime and ring the RIG buzzer.

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• Safes
• Hacking ATMs
• Wikileaks
• Events
• Movie science
• Rocket science
• Hacking the National Lottery
• The semantic web
• The trouble with man-in-the-middle attacks
• Magnetic navigation
• The hacks that stopped Hitler
• How to win at The Hobbit
• Why information architecture matters
• Featured hackers
• The Artist’s Studio
• Fictional iPhone apps
• How to break into television with broadcast signal intrusions
• This issue’s equation
• Interviews
• Cartoons

…and more?

Hackers! spring issue. Coming soon.

In the meantime, you can still get hold of issue one.

“Why hackers? I kept seeing this very fresh, very motivated creativity everywhere, individuals quietly looking for possibilities to subvert and improve given systems and technologies with their ideas – and refusing to accept that it can’t be done. There was a shared attitude, but no single place to go to find it all. So I spotted a gap for a new publication, respectfully and professionally produced, but made in the spirit of hacking rather than simply reporting on it. Hacking has many meanings – it’s as much about ingenious problem-solving as it is about mischief. People are beginning to realise that, and that’s definitely something to celebrate.”

The Editor

See who else was involved.

Issue 1 will be available to buy online again shortly, in the meantime, get in touch and I’ll put one aside for you.

Collect in person by coming to the Newspaper Club offices in Shoreditch. It’s the “RIG” buzzer.

Here’s the PDF press release with some more info!

There are no plans to supply a PDF version of the newspaper at present, but we may do so in the future.

Any questions, please email editor at hackerspaper.com

I know we’ve been saying that for a while, but I promise it’s true this time.

We’re just putting the last touches to the design. There’s no backing out now.

It’s a limited run, so get in touch if you want a guaranteed copy put aside for you.

Hackers will be a quarterly, 12 page, full-colour newspaper. It costs £4 (or, to use the preferred modern conversion system, just 5p more than a Costa panini).

“Under the new system, a one hour lunch break becomes a four centitago lunch break and a five minute cigarette break becomes a four millitago cigarette break. It would take some time to adjust to the new system, but I believe it would be worth it”

“I remember the third time I testified before the United States Congress they asked me the night before: “Hey, will you have your green hair?” The Congressmen really like the street credibility”

“Potential emulators: you need to know the speed the electron beam illuminates a screen’s phosphor dots to pull this off, but once you’ve done it, you’re unlikely to meet much resistance”

“It is this flaw that enables the lock to be opened without knowing the combination. The flaw is harder to exploit in a more accurately made lock, but such locks are rarer and more expensive”

“He had seen a mailing list post many years earlier from someone who revealed they had, as a schoolboy, written a sequel to probably the most popular Repton game, Repton 3. We struggled for a long while to track down Paras Sidapara who made that post”

“Some of the things that couldn’t be developed in time include “Foursquare for ventriloquists”, a “Rate My Commute” badge, “Design for a Personal Newsreader”, a model for a copyright license that includes the line “I wish I’d thought of this”… and a “You’re still in the game” simulator”

The first issue of Hackers! is on schedule for November 2010. Watch this space for updates. In the meantime, here‘s Tom Armitage of BERG showing me how to dismantle a Rubik’s Cube using a screwdriver.