Rop Gonggrijp, the magazine's later editor and publisher was at that point already rather well known as a hacker who sometimes appeared in the newspapers.
That summer, Nevejan, Gonggrijp and Patrice Riemens organized the Galactic Hacker Party in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
A group of authors published wide-ranging articles including "How to copy the data on the magnetic stripe of your bank card?
", "How to build your own pay-TV descrambler" and at least twenty different variations of "How does one make free phone calls?"
[2] Also in 1993, Hack-Tic organized Hacking at the End of the Universe (HEU), the first outdoor hacker festival event.