[tdullien]

The old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc.

There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity including selling 0-day to the US government that was then used to apprehend high-level Al-Qaida personnel, random warez busts leading to people taking oversea jobs, etc. etc. etc.

If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000, I'd be very interested in getting as many as possible.

[echelon_musk]

> If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000

Have you checked https://srrdb.com ?

[unixhero]

.nfo archives is quite complete out there on the archive sites. Those days were crazy busy in the warez world and the nfo files are a blast to read.

[giraffer]

Here's the one I uploaded. It was the most extensive collection back in the day.

The dates listed are from when they were fetched, they encompass all eras.

https://archive.org/details/nfo_large_collection_2009_2012

[exitb]

Have you posted the right link? It seems to be a 2009-2012 collection, when the question was about the 90s.

[wuschel]

Interesting. Where is it possible to read up on this?