UNDERGROUND FORUM ROUNDUP
Version 2.0

Compiled by: DIzzIE  {with much gratitude to all contributors!} [c]opyleft 2005

Here’s a collection of currently active forums that are either centered around or devote a significant amount of space to the discussion of various ‘underground’ activities. There is, however, one underground genre that you wont see represented here: warez forums (commonly known as ‘fxp boards’). Their absence is due to the fact that there are several hundred (if not thousands) of fxp boards around, with many shutting down/changing addresses everyday and equally many new ones appearing. Thus, if you’re interested in finding a list of warez forums, simply hammer ‘fxp boards’ into Google and off you go. Note that the forums aren’t listed in any particular order, and are vaguely grouped by area of focus (if any). Some forums require registration before access to the forum is granted. Finally, forums marked as NEW aren't necessarily new in and of themselves, but rather are new additions to this roundup since the last version update.

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All-Purpose Forums:

RORTA
“Information is Strength, Knowledge is Power”
Underground topics include everything from scams & crime and hacking & phreaking to weapons & survival and chemicals & explosives.

Bombshock
Drugs, explosives, electronics, and the like...

A0tu
“Survival in the age of paranoia”
Hacking, weapons, explosives, and misc. related discussion.

TOTSE
“Read * Know * Do”
Forum areas include “Bad Ideas,” “Backyard Ballistics,” “Better Living Through Chemistry,” “Mad Scientists,” and many more. With over 33,000 mentally-challenged members, and largely unmoderated poorly moderated forums, you may nonetheless find one informative post for every 100 that you sift through.

Flashback
Forums on various topics from drugs to erotica. Available in Danish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

KBK Forum - NEW
"Controversial information for the controversial mind"
Explosives & Chemistry, Hacking, Survival, Tutorials, etc.

Dumpster Diving:

Dumpster World
“Your dumpster diving and curb crawling resource”
Includes discussion of general tips, pictures of finds, dumpster diving meetings, and more.

Dumpster Diving
“Dumpster Diving for Dumpster Divers and Trashcan Diggers”
A (much) smaller version of Dumpster World.

Urban Exploration:

Urban Exploration Resource
Includes tutorials, photographs, an UE Encyclopedia, and other pertinent topics.

Night Ops
Discussion of night-time urban exploration, including advice, anecdotes, and so on...

Conspiracy & Fringe:

AboveTopSecret.com
“deny ignorance”
A thorough conspiracy forum that covers conspiracies, secret societies, cryptozoology, and any/every other fringe topic.

Club Conspiracy
“you are not alone”
A smaller conspiracy forum…

Conspiracy Central
"None dare call it conspiracy...except us"
All things related to secret societies, disinformation, and the like. Includes a thriving torrent tracker chock full of useful media.

The Paranormal Network
Time travel, ESP, conspiracies, and all things paranormal.

Hacking/Phreaking:

Phone Losers Community Forums
“No discernable topic since year of the Wood Goat…Happy New Monkey!”
Topics include frequency scanning, phreaking, hacking, as well as various off-topic areas: food, filmmaking, etc.

johny.ihackstuff.com
“I’m Johny. I hack stuff.”
A forum devoted to search engine exploits.

brain-hack
“Security Forum”
A forum for discussing various aspects of technological development; not too active, but has various older posts/tutorials worth browsing through.

Hackerthreads.org security
“DIY or DIE security”
A decent collection of tutorials as well as various discussions of aspects of computer hacking.

Binary Revolution Forums
General hacking/phreaking/radio sections, as well as an interesting section devoted to ‘retail hacking’

XXX Passes:

#XXXPasswords
Passes, wordlists, etc.

Xisp.org Forums
Passes, cracking tuts, and so forth.

Paradiseloop Forum
Passes, spoofs, help with cracking…

Carding:

The Grifters
"TheGrifters.Net is now just an archive of the past. It is no longer associated with its former self. Those in the public can now view what went on in the past with an eye on how to protect themselves in the future

Mazafaka.CC / Carding.Ru (mirror)
"forums about e-commerce"
Russian/English carding forums: dumps, cashing, drops, etc...They have recently instigated a $10 entrance fee.

Gore:

Ogrish.com Forums
“Can you handle life?”
With over 155 thousand members, and new posts every few seconds, this is the only gore forum you will ever need.

Goregasm.com - NEW
"where BONES meet BONERS"
Porn/gore videos & images, general discussion, and so forth ;)

Forced Existence - NEW
"Sick shit your evil soul craves"
Sick news, sexual deviance, rants...

Infernogore - NEW
"for the morbidly curious"
Includes a gore images forum as well as a discussion forum

Drukqs:

Pharmaecopia - NEW
"Expert pharmacology information and research"
Discussion of drugs, paraphernalia, trip reports, anything drug-related.

The Lycaeum Forums - NEW
Psychedelics, arts, laws...

Bluelight - NEW
Focus forums include ecstasy/cannabis/steroids/psychedelics

Drugs Forum - NEW
"the international drugs community"
The usual :)

Explosives, Combat, and Mad Science:

The Explosives and Weapons Forum
“Beating plowshares into swords since 1999”
Explosives, pyrotechnics, weaponry, and the like.

FightingArts Forums
Martial arts, weapons, and training.

Self-Defense Forums
“For a fighting chance”
Armed/unarmed combat.

Sciencemadness Discussion Board - NEW
"the art and science of amateur experimentalism"
General chemisry, technochemistry, energetic materials, and so forth...for all of your mad science needs.

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If you run across any relevant forums, let me know at xcon0@yahoo.com and I’ll add it to a later version of the roundup! (Likewise, if any of the forums are no longer up or have changed their location, let me know as well). If the direct link to the forum doesn’t work, try navigating to the main site or searching Google.

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