____ __ __ ____ __ ________ /\ _`\ /\ \/\ \ /\ _`\ /\ \ /\_____ \ \ \ \/\ \ __ _ __\ \ \/'/' \ \ \/\_\ ___ \_\ \ __\/____//'/' \ \ \ \ \ /'__`\ /\`'__\ \ , < _______\ \ \/_/_ / __`\ /'_` \ /'__`\ //'/' \ \ \_\ \/\ \L\.\_\ \ \/ \ \ \\`\ /\______\\ \ \L\ \/\ \L\ \/\ \L\ \/\ __/ //'/'___ \ \____/\ \__/.\_\\ \_\ \ \_\ \_\/______/ \ \____/\ \____/\ \___,_\ \____\ /\_______\ \/___/ \/__/\/_/ \/_/ \/_/\/_/ \/___/ \/___/ \/__,_ /\/____/ \/_______/ __ __ ______ _\ \\ \__ /\ ___\ VX /\__ _ _\\ \ \__/ 02.07.2013 \/_L\ \\ \L_\ \___``\ vxnetw0rk.ws /\_ _ _\\/\ \L\ \ The way of shadows \/_/\_\\_\/ \ \____/ \/_//_/ \/___/ ---[Perforin]----------------------------------------------------------- 5 releases of DarK-CodeZ. More than 5 years of existence of vxnetw0rk (including vxnet and DarK-CodeZ times as well). I think nobody thought that we would be serious about the VX topic. We saw the rise and fall of numerous boards regarding coding virii. We saw lots of people. Most of them come and go. But we are here to stay! You may know someone who says "VX is dead". Well it's not. After the takedown of VXheavens we saw a lot of supporters and VXer calling to the arms. Sadly VXheavens is still down. But as far as I know herm1t is doing well. We all hope to see his amazing project up and running again as fast as possible. Then SPTH came up with his LIP project. The Language Infection Project. It's doing pretty well if you have a look at the "Great Wall" [1] By now there are 36 new language infections. More than in the last 10 years I guess. Don't we forget about the Valhalla ezines. It's a bit more classy and pretty high level. Something the scene needs of course. It makes me smile to see the VX scene's still alive. It may be more active than ever. You never know what someone builds in his free time on his laptop. It just take one rainy day for someone to come up with something totaly new and devastating. Now to something else. As you heard about PRISM and Tempora what was your first thought? I couldn't help my self but to tell me that now nearly every conspiracy theory was proven to be true. That scares the shit out of me. But it also shows me the need for encryption. The need for global awareness. That's why I'm a proud supporter of the cypherpunk movement [2]. I think that projects such as the CryptoParty [3] are essential to raise awareness. To prepare us and the others for the coming dystopian world. And I think that the VX scene can help this movement. It wouldn't be that hard to write "good" viruses. We saw them already in the wild. Software that encrypts your files without your knowledge. (and decrypts them on the fly) Thats why this ezine has the subtitle "The way of shadows". It stands for the VX scene and the cypherpunk movement :) Now just some words to those who are surprised we did another stand alone ezine. We announced to join forces with EOF for their upcoming ezine. pr0mix asked us to help. That was a great idea at first. But then time flew by and none of EOF pinged us. After months of no contact we decided to do it alone. And this is the result. Sorry pr0mix but we thought EOF was dead. But we would happily join forces if you guys are more active. I for myself am impressed by the contributions we received. I would like to thank you all! Greetings (no special order) - SPTH THX for all. Nice projects, nice codes! - R3s1stanc3 For keeping the ML alive ;) - herm1t We need VXheavens baaaaaaaaack! :) - hh68 Once you are in the scene you can never go back - Genetix I still got this picture you uploaded on Twitter :P - Metal- Long time no see - skier Long time no see as well - alcopaul Where's your blog now? - roy g biv I thought you were just a ghost - Knowlegend You must finish your meta project! Happy reading! [1] http://spth.virii.lu/LIP.html [2] https://download.c3l.lu/dlbase/texts/cypherpunk_manifesto.txt [3] https://www.cryptoparty.in ---[R3s1stanc3]--------------------------------------------------------- Sooo after a long night and almost no sleep, I have to write my intro for the 5. DarK-CodeZ ezine. Well as always let's talk about what happened since the last ezine. In December 2012, Valhalla #3 was released by hh86. Shortly after that, she left the scene but fortunately she came back. In early 2013, the VXing group f3 appeared and released an ezine, that was full of stolen codes and fakes and the group disappeared. Also in early 2013, SPTH started his Language Infection Project with huge success and got many many codes. Now we are here, releasing the new DarK-CodeZ ezine. I had my finals this year and finished school a few weeks ago and that's why I didn't have much time to write codes. Also I lost all my data from my harddrive, but luckily I got my interview and my code back. I'll try to learn assembler and write more codes. Again and as always I hope for a relaunch of VXHeavens (maybe even this year?). I the end, my greetings go to SPTH - for his LIP and helping me with my questions ( maybe I will write a code for the LIP soon ) hh86 - simply thanks for coming back Perforin - ty for creating the ezine and hosting my blog and everything kn0w - hi there I hope, I didn't forget anyone. R3s1stanc3