Hack Canada is a Canadian organization run by

hackers A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals and solves problems by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hackersomeone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break ...

and

phreaker Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term ''phreak'' is a sen ...

s that provides information mainly about

telephone A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...

s, computer technology, and legal issues related to technology. Founded in 1998 by CYBØRG/ASM, HackCanada has been in media publications many times, including ''Wired News'' and the ''Edmonton Sun'' newspaper (as well as other regional newspapers) for developments such as A Palm Pilot red box (phreaking), red boxing program. Hackcanada has also been featured in books such as ''Hacking for Dummies'' () and ''Steal This Computer Book''. Hackcanada was also featured often on the L0pht, Hacker News Network. On November 29, 2017, almost twenty years after its registration, the HackCanada.com domain went offline and now displays a "This Domain Name Has Expired" message. This has since been replaced with a domain parking site that offers the domain for purchase on GoDaddy, GoDaddy.com.

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* Hacker groups Scientific organizations based in Canada 1998 establishments in Canada Organizations established in 1998 {{Canada-org-stub