[throwaway892238]

> we haven’t created an institutional memory beyond “the oldest hacker you know.”

Which I'd wager is due to over-reliance on search engines. The net is stuffed to the brim with useless bullshit designed to steal eyeballs, so finding anything somebody published two decades ago is now impossible. Internet Archive is useful if you already know what website used to exist, not so useful if you don't.

Whatever happened to that website that was a combination of blog + archive of exploit POCs? Wasn't it called PacketStorm? I just tried to find it with two search engines and came up empty. That would've been an ideal place to track down old techniques and news.