Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)

Oh, happy memories learning to hack. Phrack articles, while seminal, were not that easy to read, and really hard to learn from. Which resulted in many hours, even days of trial and error and trying to make it work.

The original article: http://www.phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article

Profile of the author of the article, in the next issue of the magazine: http://phrack.org/issues/50/4.html#article