He was an idol within the 2600 community, for those who remind that. 2600 was the original “hacker news”.
FREE KEVIN
I'll have two!
Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
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#12If you send him $10 cash in the mail with a self-addressed stamped envelope, he will send you back one of his business cards, which is a lock pick set. One of my most prized possessions.
what is his address
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#13If you send him $10 cash in the mail with a self-addressed stamped envelope, he will send you back one of his business cards, which is a lock pick set. One of my most prized possessions.
One of my former co-workers had one of those business cards as our company had used Mitnick Security to evaluate our processes. I can confirm it's a really cool business card.
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#14It's been fascinating to see the collision of security and smart contracts. Smart contracts in some ways represent an idealized view of the law, of law as code divorced from the messiness of reality, and security and hacking has a way of circumventing and/or dismantling such constructs via unknown unknowns. This post is a reminder that legal hacking has probably always been a thing even if it wasn't called that.
Well mobs had always their lawyers. Which were not like your regular lawyer “off the street” these were always “hackers” that would count minutes or specific holes to get their clients off the hook. I don’t think Mitnick was ever able to get such a lawyer because if he did, he would not be a hacker he would be just another gangster.
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#15If you send him $10 cash in the mail with a self-addressed stamped envelope, he will send you back one of his business cards, which is a lock pick set. One of my most prized possessions.
I also have that business card and also it is a prized possession haha. I met him at The Last HOPE in nyc about 10 years ago ( it wasn’t the last hope in the end) and got one there.
Almost lost it at airport security once so I keep it at home now.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
FREE KEVIN
PUT KEVIN BACK
>>FREE KEVIN
> PUT KEVIN BACK
Registered a throwaway over Tor just for this thread.
Kevin shouldn't be in prison, because prisons should be abolished, but be careful where you put... that. There's a notorious story about him being physically ejected from a fundraiser for refusing to pay the entry. (Redacting some details to stick to the fun parts)
On my end, I was working my way up to maybe flirting with someone I'd had a crush on for years, because I was a widdle baby hacker at my first... con... and off in the corner there's some kind of disturbance. "What was that?!" I sputter, straining to see across the smoky room, and some multicolored cyberpunk dryly drops "Oh, some asshole getting bounced"
If my timelines are correct, "some asshole" was Kevin Freaking Mitnick being physically ejected because when repeatedly asked to pay the door fee kept reiterating "I'm Kevin Mitnick!" and being repeatedly told "We know!" until one of the goons just... picked him up and carried him out into the hall.
And me? I was in the corner being aggressively hit on by John "Cap N Crunch" Draper, who seemed annoyed I kept refusing to drink from his flask. I told him dude, I'm 21 I can just buy booze at the bar and he angrily spat back "Why would I tell you if she's single, then you won't ever let me give you a massage!" and stormed off to find someone dumber and younger than me to ply.
(It was my first hacker convention, and it fully lived up to my expectations even if I didn't end up on the roof that year, lolllll)
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#17He was an idol within the 2600 community, for those who remind that. 2600 was the original “hacker news”.
2600 was amazing along with early phrack. @Efnet around that time was a lot of fun and learning.
Is IRC still a thing and if so what's a good one to join?
(I always avoided it for... uh... "opsec" but realizing I might be missing out on some things...)
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#19As someone with a software development background, I always found legal language very interesting. It is like a very verbose, programming language. All sorts of words and phrases have very specific meanings that, when arranged in a certain order, produce specific, reproducible outcomes. Sections of contracts and laws reference other sections by name and reference, and the whole document (or set of documents) gets interpreted in a semi-rigid way.
Just like computer programs, mistakes happen with legal languages, and when they do, they are typically have unintended consequences.
(edited for a couple of missing words in the last sentence)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
2600 was amazing along with early phrack. @Efnet around that time was a lot of fun and learning.
Is IRC still a thing and if so what's a good one to join? (I always avoided it for... uh... "opsec" but realizing I might be missing out on some things...)
idk about black hat stuff but I owe a huge amount of gratitude to the freenode (now irc.libera.chat) community that helped me learn C++ 12 years ago and to the #linux / #debian / #arch-linux channels to which I go for help even to this day.