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- Jarulf, on 08/29/2008, -0/+78Free Kevin Mitnick!!!
Oh, wait... - cgibbo, on 08/29/2008, -1/+48I saw a sticker at Defcon this year that said, "Put Kevin Back In".
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -4/+50***** JOHN MARKOFF
- moo113, on 08/29/2008, -6/+44After just re-reading his first two books I can't wait for the third. Finally a true retelling of his story.
- kevingarnett, on 08/29/2008, -0/+33Can't wait to read the sure to be leaked manuscript!
- ThirdPrize, on 08/29/2008, -1/+23That's so 90s ...
- bratterscain, on 08/29/2008, -1/+19You can also see him on "Freedom Downtime" documentary.
Slightly related, anyone remember pre-digg in the "Dark Tipper" days when Kevin had a hacking forum? Good times. - slantyeyed, on 08/29/2008, -0/+15social engineering should be in the psychology department.
- gkiltz, on 08/29/2008, -9/+23The whole Mitnick Case was built around exaggeration and extreme paranoia on all sides!
He did do some things that were illegal, but 4+ years, part of it in solitary is a classic example of an abuse of government power! Not to mention excessive prosecution!
Probably some amount of jail time was justified, but there was so much paranoia on both sides that there was no prospect of a fair trial, so the country would have been better served by NOT prosecuting the whole case!
The guy was a Phone Phreak, and possibly a hacker of some corporate sites, but the government undercut their own credibility against other cyber crime with the exaggeration and paranoia it showed in this case! - Alemanote, on 08/29/2008, -4/+16OMG Billy Crystal selling Hot Dogs!!
- davidsmero, on 08/29/2008, -1/+12Didn't Kevin's website get hacked and defaced numerous times?
Anyways, Mitnick was known for his social engineering and phone skills, not really IT security. The media has really blown his image out of proportion and over exaggerated his skills. He was one of the first few of his times and that helped his fame the most. - themadrammer, on 08/18/2009, -4/+15"Wimpy" is a state of mind, and has nothing to do with the size of your bicep. This kid hacked the largest organizations on Earth. He went head to head with the FBI. Geez, that takes big balls man. Most people would curl up and roll over when they felt the FBI on them.
- MaskedSlacker, on 08/29/2008, -3/+12WTF?
Seriously?
You got your panties in a twist over stealing social numbers of dead babies? I mean really? Stealing social numbers of living people--that I can understand being pissed off about. That actually damages people's lives. Doing it to someone who by definition cannot be harmed? Still illegal, and should still be prosecuted, but hardly warrants your vitriol.
Also, obligatory: ***** you, two of my friends died trying to steal social security numbers from dead babies. - DrunkenPirate34, on 08/29/2008, -1/+9Because we can relate?
- MtheoryX, on 08/29/2008, -0/+8I always heard it as:
Every story has 3 sides. 1 for each person, and the third is the truth somewhere in the middle. - inactive, on 08/29/2008, -1/+9Kevin Mitnick guest hosted the Coast to Coast AM radio program for one night a few years ago. His guest was Woz. they basically sat around for three hours recounting stories of hacks and pranks they had perpetrated over the years. I can't wait for the new book!
- bratterscain, on 08/29/2008, -4/+12Just because you can use a password cracker doesn't mean you're a hacker. That's not an elaborate "hack", even your grandma could do it.
- foopirata, on 08/29/2008, -1/+9So he's about to pull yet another of his "awesome" social engineering feats....finagling money out of the pockets of easily impressed 'hacker'-wannabes with his tall tales of daring and conquest.
Well, as they say, a fool and his/her/its money...
Looking forward for the wave of kids arrested dump-diving. - TR3GO, on 08/29/2008, -1/+8That's so 90s... is so 80s.
- dsmx, on 08/29/2008, -6/+13NO, his perspective on what happened.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -2/+8The kid did not hack the largest organizations on earth, and he in no way went head to head with the FBI. You've bought the hype---from Mitnick himself. I've said it a thousand times, and ill say it again:
Kevin Mitnick's talent isn't in hardware or software, it's in social engineering. He's a crapulent hacker; he knows next to nothing about any kind of real computer security, but the man does know how to manipulate the psychology of teenagers. - isiz, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7Not my grandma...
- smotpoker, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7He got famous due to a NYT reporter who exaggerated the story. Yes, the story has been told but supposedly Kevin omitted and denied much due to legal reasons which are no longer applicable.
- blackturtleus, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6I read TAKEDOWN by Shimomura/Markoff in the 1990s and it would appear that Mitnick is an ankle-biter compared to Shimomura. It's true that Mitnick did some fairly amazing things as a hacker, but the skills of Shimomura are a couple of orders of magnitude greater than Mitnick's!!!
- jeexbit, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6FREE KEVIN (with purchase of equal or greater value)
- Chaulis, on 08/29/2008, -5/+10Kevin really pulled him self up from nothing, I can't wait to read about what he has done from his perspective. Imagine being on the run for a year, then sitting in federal prison for multiple years with no idea when you were going to get out and not even being charged with anything. To become as successful as he has been is a testament to what kind of person he is.
- casey148, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6That's what she... actually, it isn't.
- javaroast, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6But when your site is http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/ it is still pretty embarrassing.
http://news.cnet.com/Kevin-Mitnick-Web-site-hacked ... - cgibbo, on 08/29/2008, -1/+5I made out with him once. Nice guy.
- ProfessorLX, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4he stroked my penis once, good guy for sure
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4He is probably the most notorious hacker in all of history, and he was thrown in jail for almost five years without any kind of trial. Odds are you probably saw many orange-with-black-lettering bumper stickers that said "FREE KEVIN" during the 1990s without even knowing what they were about. Many creative and curious computer enthusiasts and programmers, even those not employed in the security field, were very concerned about the kind of unfair treatment he was given and the possible precedents it was setting, so it was an important chapter in computer crime legal history, and many digg users, unlike the recent surge of "geek-wannabe-oh-computers-are-cool-now?-then-I-think-I'll-start-wearing-Apple-shirts-and-get-a-MacBook Apple users," were involved in the IT community during that time.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -1/+5True?
I was around and conscious of these sorts of things when Mitnick was brought down by the feds, and I was at the time active on a number of bulletin board systems which had the un-edited story of how things went down.
See, the thing about Mitnick is that there's a reason he was caught:
He couldn't ever, ever just shut the hell up about what he was involved with. He had to tell everyone, all the time--even people who really weren't interested in how many CC numbers he managed to "touch". He was no genius; he was just a failed phreaker who got really, really greedy.
But we'll see how well his book does. I know a few people who have already begun the "unauthorized" version, so this should be pretty interesting. - baldduck, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Free Hat!
- num3thod, on 08/29/2008, -2/+52600
- cgibbo, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4I dugg you, but I believe it's 'dumpster-diving'.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -2/+5Somehow I bet there will be a movie about this.
- slantyeyed, on 08/29/2008, -2/+5i think this kid knows nothing about kevin mitnick . . . lemme guess, Kevin Mitnick is 10 feet tall and kills men by the hundreds? And if he were here, he'd consume the english with fire from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse?
- RogerStrong, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Uh huh.
Mitnick merely committed some greedy little scams, got caught repeatedly, and went to jail. Shimomura used his skills productivly, merely setting aside his work briefly to slap down an ankle biter. - RogerStrong, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3>> Not to mention excessive prosecution
How so?
Remember, he didn't just get caught. He got caught repeatedly. The more you commit the same crime, the longer they put you away for - until even the dumbest twit figures out that maybe they should change their ways. - RMoore08, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4I got hacked by him. Funny man.
- RMoore08, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Noooo thanks.
- GrumpyFan, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3There already was. It sucked!
It was called Takedown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takedown_(film)
However, the book of the same name wasn't too bad. - censorshipwreck, on 08/29/2008, -2/+5I had a friend that was at a Kevin's book signing for Art of Deception. He said a cop walked in the room, just to check on things and without missing a beat Kevin spun around in his chair and speed dialed someone from his cell.
Hopefully, now he'll just give cops the finger when he's singing books.
Probably not though, he is a pretty big wuss. - inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3@theweapon
"I read TAKEDOWN by Shimomura/Markoff in the 1990s and it would appear that ..."
blackturtleus totally cited where the opinion was coming from, and even said "it would appear that", so I don't think it's reasonable to whine about the book's bias. The poster already made it clear that it comes from Shimomura's own book.
And please, cite to us your own "research". Let me guess, most or all of it was written by people in the black hat community. - themadrammer, on 08/18/2009, -0/+3I don't know much about Kevin, except whats in that article. So you guys are probably right. I will have to read up on him. ;)
- RogerStrong, on 08/29/2008, -2/+4@salomejones:
Well said.
And if he really WERE a super-hacker, he wouldn't get caught, and we wouldn't know his name.
Mitnick didn't just get caught; he got caught repeatedly.
It's like someone being labelled the "ultimate bank robber", who "repeatedly took on the banks and the FBI". It's less impressive when the robber got caught every time.
>> social engineering
The apologist fanboy name for fraud. - RogerStrong, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3What skills? There's plenty of other con artists out there.
- bluepass, on 08/29/2008, -2/+4"The Art of Kevin Mitnick"
I can't wait... - thedogfatherx, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3Digg babies are going to eat this up. Make him a millionaire. Little punk bitches.
- davidsmero, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2God that website looks awful.
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