wired.com — Feb. 15, 1995 - Perhaps the most celebrated cracking case in history begins with the arrest of Kevin Mitnick by the FBI on charges of wire fraud and breaking into the computer systems of several major corporations.
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adryFeb 15, 2007
1995 -> OLD news
dwight0Feb 15, 2007
i think we finally ran out of good new news.
ricreeFeb 15, 2007
@JamminnSome people really need to remember that sarcasm can be pretty hard to detect online. After all, we do get a fair amount of stupid people who come around and spout crap on digg. With only the text to use to form an opinion, it can be damned hard to tell whether someone is being serious or not.
rogerstrongFeb 16, 2007
It's amazing how they couldn't catch (1) the world's greatest hacker (2).(1) Except that he got caught again and again and again. This is why he was in jail for so long. Committing a crime is one thing; committing it repeatedly is another, and committing yet again after you make a promise to a judge is far worse.(2) Except also that he wasn't much of a hacker. He never wrote a line of code - he used social engineering and utilities written by others. This makes him a fraud and a script kiddie, but not a hacker.
rogerstrongFeb 16, 2007
That's about right. It's not that he got caught committing a crime , it's that he got caught again and again and again.The first time didn't put him in jail. Committing it again and again and again did.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2007
Mitnick is awesome! I have both of his books.~mario<a class="user" href="http://prelude619.blogspot.com/">http://prelude619.blogspot.com/</a>