Just a question that I've been woundering about for quite some time...

Where have all of you heard about UGN Security?
What brought you here?
Why did you stay?
What did you expect from joining UGN Security?
Have your expectations changed?

In reply to Gizmo,

I went to "www.copscops.com/", and found you on their list. I was looking for info on comp security.
I liked your rants page, that's why I stayed. I expected to hear a wide range of opinions on tech stuff, and hopefully learn something new. My expectations have not changed.

I dunno where I heard about it. Search engine probably?

I came here because I wanted to "hack" just like most newbies. That outlook didn't last, obviously.

They made me staff, so it was hard to leave. :x

I think i was searching for Hacking news etc,...

Saw this Intresting site = ) It looked awsome. I saw you guys had forums, so i decided to hang around this cool community, then started hanging around at Irc channel.

And i was made a News Moderator = ) I stay here because i have met a lot of cool people and not planning on leaving any time soon = )

I stoped to going to most of the computer related communities accept this one = )

I found UGN on the old hackers.com like back in 1999-2000. I stayed cause of the people back then. There were maybe about 300-400 members when I joined. What I expect from UGN is to learn so much that one day I can take over the world. or maybe I'm jus here cause I'm attached to it too much.

I found out the same way, off Hackers.com, and stayed because, there were some interesting ppl here back then when Blackbeard own the site, its good now to that Gizmo runs the show of course...

I did a google search or was it hotbot... anyway search for underground. There she was.. Undergroundnews. Who could resist a site with such a sexy name. I wanted to learn to hack and do cool stuff on the computer. I had no idea how much I would learn and how different it was from my original thoughts. I stay because this place is just as sexy if not more then when I first laid eyes on her.

I downloaded texts and stuff for a while here trying to learn how to hack. I found out that there was a board and joined. Liked it, stayed and here i am.

Any others?

I think i was searching on google for something beginning with 'underground...'. Don't remember what I was looking for :|

Anyway, I stayed because I thought I might learn a lot of stuff by reading the posts.. And I was right.

coldsunn told me about it, or rather he complained about how much it sucked now, so i checked it out. i stayed because somehow ugn got stuck as my startup page and i can't figure out how to change it.

I found it because I was supposed to go to defcon a couple years back and the trip got cancelled. So I was cruising around defcon's site to see what I missed, that is where I came across UGN

Where have all of you heard about UGN Security?
you
What brought you here? you
Why did you stay? you, ice, and hopes of mentoring
What did you expect from joining UGN Security?
nothing
Have your expectations changed? they never do

Yeh, Defcon linking to us, they have been since 9 i think...

lots of places link to ugn http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.undergroundnews.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0

heh, fun fun?

yeh, i only like ones that actually give traffic...

heh, as do I, but when that reachs 1000+, then 10,000 plus it will show something very good. not to mention when it reachs 100,000+, or 1,000,000:XXXXX

I found this place from a web search on Anarchy...i'm new, but i've stuck around so far only because i've already learned a lot about hacking that i didn't know before.

i found ugn be a searce engine on cool things and hacking

I was looking for text files on a search engine, and the old KBase was listed there, so I decided to join, read and see what I could learn. And that is the reason I still hang around here. I've not been very active lately, but hopefully that will change.

I heard about UGN from Curse a long long time ago. And have been visting UGN for sometime but now finally registered to post stuff.

I miss curse ... He got a job and dissapeared

I still hang out and talk to him we are friends.

dont remember where i heard from ugn.
Might have been google.
Or on a irc.
No idea.

But I didnt get the title
"UGN's Dumbass 2003/04"
for no reason

i found ugn in a book called "steal this computer book 3". Wanted to learn to stop hackers and spammers from getting into my machine and to get back at them but i have found that i have a lot to learn. I have stayed here because the ops are really helpful and i havn't met anyone here yet that looks down on me for being a newb. I expected to be able to learn how to hack like swordfish in a few months. My expectations have changed greatly. I now know that in order to be good at anything related to programming, hacking, security, scripting, etc. its going to take a lot of practice, hard work, reading, and tutalige ffrom the great people here at ugn.