Editorial

We've been swamped with mail from people who either wanted to renew at the old rate or who wanted to comment on our new style.  Please forgive us if we seem to take a little longer to process your particular request - this avalanche far outweighed our wildest dreams.

This probably means we're doing quite well, but it's always hard to be conclusive.  Our experiments with several newsstands across the country appears to be succeeding as well, and we hope to have a distributor before long.  Before long, 2600 will be a household word.  Look for a list of newsstands we can be found at in a future issue.

This month we're happy to present an exclusive interview with one of Britain's most notorious hackers, Hugo Cornwall.  It's one of many we'll be presenting and we think there's a lot to be learned from his observations.

We've also got an article on COSMOS that many readers will no doubt fail to understand entirely.  This has always been a problem for us here as we must constantly try to please both the beginners and the advanced hackers among us.  One thing we believe everyone can get out of this article is a realization of all of the different ways your phone service can be categorized and how easy it is to change this with a simple stroke of the keyboard.  It might lend some insight as to why you didn't get what you asked for or perhaps how you managed to wind up with a prison phone line.

Phones and computers are incredible and the two together can be quite scary.  The purpose of our magazine is to show you what's going on with both - in as many ways as possible.