K-1ine

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'K-1ine' is an online magazine featuring technical information about hacking, phreaking, electronics, and privacy issues. Started by The Clone (of Nettwerked, HackCanada), K-1ine Magazine is 100% text-only, distributed in electronic form. K-1ine was started in 1999 as a way to bring the Canadian H/P scene together, and so far it has enjoyed many article submissions, hundreds of K-1ine mailing list subscribers, and many thousands of readers since it was created.

The name comes from a mix of Leetspeak and the IRC term K-line, or Kill Line. To reflect the magazine's appeal to hacker-types, the "l" in "K-line" has been replaced with a "1". This yields "K-1ine", which is somewhat of a joke phrase to hackers.

1 History
2 K-1ine in the Media
3 K-1ine Writers in the Media
4 External links

[edit] History

The first issue of K-1ine was released in June of 1999. It began as a "wheneverly" e-zine, being released whenever The Clone had enough time, and article submissions, to compile what he thought was a 'complete' article. The Clone also joined the Hackcanada crew in 1999. K-1ine was then mirrored on www.HackCanada.com, which massively increased its distribution. Consequently, the following issue K-1ine #5 - Follow Me Down in the summer of 2000, the magazine experienced a surge of popularity. The Clone then began releasing it in a monthly format. This continued until K-1ine #39 - There is no ()fork was released in May of 2003. Article submissions were down, and The Clone began releasing K-1ine quarterly. The quarterly format was continued until K-1ine #47 - SIX F*CKING YEARS was released in 2005. The electronic magazine then went back to its original "wheneverly" format, due again to lack of article submissions. The magazine is still being put out as often as possible by The Clone.

K-1ine has received articles from a number of internationally-known hacker-types, including CYB0RG/ASM (of Hackcanada), Lucky225 (http://www.verizonfears.com), and many others. A number of other well-known American and Canadian hackers also submit articles on a regular basis, including Fractal, wizbone, phlux, PsychoSpy, Aestetix, and others.

The Clone is currently fulfilling the role of editor and producer.