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    ~ tmp.0ut Staff                                        └───────────────────█ ──┘

    I’ve been waiting to do this for a really long time.

    To be honest, I don’t think many elf-lovers really envisioned this ever
    happening. Traditionally, we elf researchers have been outliers. Even after VLAD
    and the late 90’s vx scene, silvio’s first paper, the unix virus mailing list,
    phrack articles, elfmaster; our numbers and gathering places were small and
    separate.

    Six months ago I was introduced to s01den, and we decided to work on some ELF
    projects together. I invited my old friend TMZ. A month later, there were maybe
    5 of us. Then there were 10. 15. Within three months, there were 28 people
    together in a discord chat, ALL talking about ELF and projects and putting out a
    zine - It happened so fast I can't even describe very well how it came into
    being.

    We started talking and having meetings and taking on projects - and all agreed
    it would be a wonderful idea to document our journey; create a series of
    publications that can be learned from, used as reference guides, and maybe even
    eventually combine them into a fluent volume of elf modification techniques and
    technology for the next elf generation. I contend with a fair degree of
    certainty that this is most likely the largest group of hackers ever joined
    together at the same time and place who are all actively working on ELF
    projects.

    Infection algorithms with code examples. Custom linker scripts with an entirely
    new method of loading ELF binaries in memory. Binary golf. Loading kernel
    modules from remote sources. A disinfector written in python. An interview with
    a legend. A 39-page re-reverse engineer and analysis of one of the most complex
    Linux viruses yet seen. I wrote pages and pages of things I wanted to put in
    this introduction I've been waiting 20 years to write, but now that it's come
    down to it, I feel like most of that stuff should be left out, or put in its own
    article, because our amazing crew and our content speaks for itself.

    And now without further ado, tmp.out, Thugcrowd, and Symbolcrash productions
    proudly present the Mental 'elf support group - spuriously sponsored by the
    society for sanitary shellcodes and the binary bandit backdoorfactory bums

    ~ sblip