[manish_gill]

That would be really nice. I actually started learning programming so I could become a better "h4x0r" (I was a kid). But then I discovered I liked making things a lot more. I'd be really fun to go back and learn the things that inspired me to play with a computer in the first place.

[DanBC]

For some (old, out of date) information you could have a look at Fravia's information.

(http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/)

This is ancient; and Fravia is dead, so updates are unlikely. Fravia was also Italian and the writing is, uh, sometimes hard to follow. But I include it because it gives insight to the frame of mind that is needed, and is comprehensive about the tools that used to be used.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia)

Someone putting together some blog posts for HN would be very much appreciated.

[xtracto]

Aahhh... Fravia and the "crackstore" were great places to get tuts about hacking/cracking in their time (e.g. tKC tuts where good to follow as a kid).

I still miss those days of SoftIce :). Good memories.

[jonnyscholes]

Anyone else frequent http://freaky.staticusers.net/ back in the day? I always found their forums full of goodies [esp if you were interested in hacking from or into osx / os9] - pity it seems to have been taken down! [google still has some of it though].

[rboyd]

I too grew up reading Fravia and absolutely loved his tutorials. One nostalgic evening several months ago I went googling for his tutorials and was saddened to see he had passed.

I've been very curious ever since to know what he wrote in his last post, but unfortunately I can't read Italian and the online translation service I've tried seem to fail horribly. Are there any Italian speakers able to translate this for the rest of us?

http://beri.it/2009/08/28/fravia/

[aestetix]

I cannot upvote this enough. Fravia was brilliant, also check out searchlores, where he views the internet as a binary. Beautiful, beautiful work.

[sitkack]

rip. His cracking, reversing and searching tutorials are an amazing body of work.