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This RFC specifies a list of suggestions, tips and mandatory guidelines that would help you in writing and submitting an article for the PHRACK Magazine.
Following that RFC not only increases the opportunity of having your article published, but also reduces the amount of work that you/we might have to afford to PHRACKALIZE your work. Because we are lazy bastards, that make you article a better candidate.
LICENSE FILE
This Call For Paper is under the PHRACK UNDERGROUND license 1.0 that stands in one line: feel free to distribute it to hackers, phreakers,and non half-assed researchers who wants to publish their alternative content into our columns, their columns : PHRACK MAGAZINE EDITION #66
This file SHOULD not have appeared in public, but as we know its inevitable at some point and then we will let a message on the PHRACK website to announce the call for paper. We will however not inform full-disclosure or any other industrial mailing list. As such, we give the priviledge to people from the underground to publish in priority but of course we let it possible to publish for everyone.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
This part gives a list of guidelines to correctly format and write your paper.
The topic covered has to be new. We don't publish already released papers.
PHRACK is an Underground magazine. Any Underground related topic is welcome. If you're in doubt about your paper's eligibility, just send us a draft and we'll let you know.
The lines should be 75-columns long MAX [vi hint: set textwidth=75]
The text has to be written in ASCII 7bit. No strange accents or that exotic letters.
There is no limit on the length of your paper.
We don't accept Companies/Profit Organizations emails. If you don't have a "general" email account we'll make one for you.
We don't accept lame articles
SUBMISSION POLICIES
There is not a "perfect time" to submit your work. We announce a CFP (Call For Papers) usually three or four months before the expected date of release, but papers can be submitted at any given time.
We answer to _all_ submissions (take care to add ANTISPAM in your mail subject to not be redirected directly to /dev/null).
The Phrack Staff receives all submissions on a single email address :
circle AT phrack DOT org
If the work is any good and we think that it can be improved until it is publishable in PHRACK we will assign you a member of the staff as a reviewer, that will help you in the submission process.
If your paper is rejected (yes, we are fucking bastards with high quality requests) you will be informed as soon as possible, and you'll have time until the release of the magazine to improve your work.
It's _your_ paper. You're free to do whatever you want with it including releasing it outside PHRACK, but at that point you won't be anymore eligible for publication.
Many people ask us about papers related to Conferences and similar. If your conference participation is subject to a publication of a paper,
you'll be expected to at least extend your work for the PHRACK magazine.
PHRACK is not a 0-day magazine. Everybody realizes that articles are not written exactly the day before the release.
SPECIAL TOPICS
Concerning the topic that you can submit, the staff would like to see more original topics. Classic topics like exploitation, reverse engineering or kernel are always welcome. However, since times change
alternate subjects on new technologies are more than welcome:
Scene philes, underground news or unreported events testimonies.
Community, Law, and other social mattering considerations in the counter-cultural society.
Body/Mind experiences, including cybernetics and hardcore modifications or experimentations.
Hacking "new" technologies (GPS, GPRS, BlackBerry, UMTS, Galileo, satellites communications, SmartDust, Grid Computing, .NET, SOAP, Web Services...)
Phreaking (VOIP, PSTN/ISDN, Media Gateway, SS7/SIP/H.323...)
Secret Network (SIPRnet, GOVNET, KTN, GIG, SCADA, SwiftNet...)
Spying, Law Enforcement (CALEA, SS8, Narus...), IP range list.
Cryptography and Cryptanalysis.
Hardware hacking, reverse engineering, embedded systems and carding involving electronics or other complex topics.
The staff won't consider another article about how to write a shellcode on a special architecture.
Also, don't forget that Phrack is not only a technical journal and that the staff will consider Spirit/Will articles with the same attention than technical philes. The new staff will take a great
care to have a magazine with a good proportion of technical articles and spirit-related articles.
And don't forget, PHRACK is the magazine of the community, in other words it's YOUR magazine.
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