Probably my biggest and most well known project was the "Binary Revolution" over at binrev.com.  People alwyas ask about how it was started, so here it the long-winded answer.

The Revolution started actually right here on this site.  It was around 1999-2000 and I had been published in 2600 magazine a couple of times.  I decided, in the spirit of hacking and sharing information, to start a web site to share my articles and research.  I registered stankdawg.com and began working on it and using it as a tool to teach myself some of the new web programming languages.  Looking back at some of the early versions of this site will show you how bad I was at HTML and design and quite frankly, I still am!

I put up some basic forum software that was a combination of a notebook for me to post interesting things for myself and place for feedback on my articles and hopefully collaboration with others.  I was overwhelmed with the support that the site got and began to find it awkward to have a site sitting on my handle at StankDawg.com as the url.  It felt very vain, and I knew that I was only one small part of a greater community.  I brought this subject up to some of my close friends in the DDP (my hacking group) and we agreed to register a new site and make it emphasize the hacking community as whole.  After some brainstorming, Rax and I came up with the name "Binary Revolution" and we decider to register binrev.com as a shorter url.

But the Binary Revolution is not just a forum or a web site.  It is actually a mindset and a series of web sites, projects, and people that focus on the hacking community.  We wanted to check the single minded notion of many hackers and their elitist attitude and try to take the negativity out of the hacking scene.  We wanted to create an atmosphere of positivity and focus more on productive education and helping the community to grow.

The new site started with as few as a couple of hundred hits per week to as many as 20,000 unique visits per day and the site is still growing.  We rolled some of our projects off onto sites of their own causing some of the traffic to be dispersed to different servers and domains so adding up the stats today would be tougher, but the main forum site alone still gets 12,000-15,000 unique visits per day and ranks in the top 100,000 web sites according to alexa rankings.

If you want aplace where nubies and veteran hackers alike can share a positive and enriching environment, you should join the revolution!