Hacking Text Corpus

A research corpus of historical computer security writings, hacker zines, and hacktivist texts. Built for NLP, text generation, discourse analysis, and security research.

all.txt — all files for training language models

This is the all files for training language models. all.txt is a single concatenated file containing all of the corpus content (every Phrack article, the Phineas Fisher writeups, unfz.txt, and thc.md) in one plain-text document, ready to feed directly into a language-model training pipeline.

• What's in it: 1,031 source files merged into one ~56 MB / ~1.16M-line text file
• Format: each source file is preceded by a header line, e.g. ========== FILE: phrack/issue1/1.txt ==========, then the file's body, so document boundaries are preserved during training
• Order: Phrack issues in numeric order (issue1 → issue72), then phineas/, then thc.md, then unfz.txt
• Excluded: this README.md, .gitattributes, and internal Hugging Face cache/metadata artifacts (not corpus content)
• Usage: point your tokenizer/trainer directly at all.txt for a single-stream security-text corpus

ASCII-only normalization

The entire corpus has been normalized to pure 7-bit ASCII so it does not pollute a tokenizer's vocabulary with stray Unicode. This applies to every source file and to all.txt.

• Non-ASCII characters were transliterated to readable ASCII equivalents, not deleted:
  • Box-drawing / debugger line art (─ │ ┐ ├ ╡ ▒ … from GDB/gef output) → - | + + + : …
  • Arrows (→ ← ↑ ↓ ➤) → -> <- ^ v >
  • Accented Latin (í ó ç é …) → base letters (i o c e …)
  • Cyrillic letters (in proper names) → Latin transliteration
  • Smart quotes & dashes (' ' " " – — …) → ' ' " " - - ...
• Removed entirely: emoji (e.g. ❤ 👉 👌 😩), variation/zero-width selectors, BOM, and raw control bytes (0x00–0x1F except tab/newline/CR)
• Result: 0 non-ASCII or control characters remain across all 1,031 content files — every byte is 0x20–0x7E or \t \n \r, matching the pure-ASCII style of the original Phrack philes

Contents

Phrack Magazine (phrack/)

• 72 issues (1985-2024), 1,026 articles
• ~55 MB of raw text, ~4.76 million words
• Organized as phrack/issue{N}/{article}.txt
• Topics: exploit development, reverse engineering, networking, phreaking, hacker culture, OS internals

Phineas Fisher (phineas/)

• gamma.txt - Gamma Group / FinFisher hack writeup
• ht.txt - Hacking Team breach writeup
• cayman.txt - Cayman National Bank hack writeup

unfz (unfz.txt)

• Hacker zine / writings from unfz
• Underground hacker culture, techniques, and philosophy

THC (thc.md)

• The Hacker's Choice tips, tricks & cheat sheet
• ~2,900 lines covering shells, tunneling, pivoting, network tricks

Intended Use

Academic research, NLP training, discourse analysis, security education.

Legal Notice

All texts are publicly available. Copyright remains with original authors. Phrack content sourced from archives.phrack.org.