A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
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Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#2I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.
This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
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Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#4I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet. This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
At DEF CON and related events now, you commonly see stickers saying "PUT KEVIN BACK".
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#5Hah, he social engineered the God of social engineering...
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#6I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant.
His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either.
He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Counterproductive at best. It seemed like his PR exceeded his utility by a great deal.
That trend continues beyond the grave, maybe.
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#7I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet. This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
At DEF CON and related events now, you commonly see stickers saying "PUT KEVIN BACK".
Well, he has passed so I don't know if that sticker is relevant anymore.
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
At DEF CON and related events now, you commonly see stickers saying "PUT KEVIN BACK".
Well, he has passed so I don't know if that sticker is relevant anymore.
It's probably not, but still usefully signals particular mindsets to others who might share them.
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#9I heard he can launch nukes by whistling into a pay phone.
Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
#10I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant. His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either. He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Cou…
He social engineered your company into contracting him, and that adds to the legend, but people don't see how many other companies he failed to social engineer.