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Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
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#12Surprised that personal info such as Kevin’s SSN wasn’t removed prior to release.
Steve's Job SSN is 549-94-3295. How can this release harm a dead person?
Re: Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
#13Surprised that personal info such as Kevin’s SSN wasn’t removed prior to release.
Er, what risk does the release of an SSN pose to someone two years deceased?
TIL.
Now I’m wondering how many other people in this thread don’t know he died (pancreatic cancer). 59 isn’t that old. And he was expecting a baby at the time, which suggests maybe they didnt think so either.
Re: Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
#14This will pair well with Mitnick's autobiography Ghost in the Wires , in which you get to read Mitnick's side of the story.
If you are into this topic, read as many point of view as possible and take a look at http://www.takedown.com/ (Tsutomu Shimomura's side of the story).
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#16It should be illegal for the government to keep redactions in anything made public/declassified. It's a slap in the face to see entire sections of text (that most certainly contain important context) blocked out with a white blob.
Re: Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
#17Surprised that personal info such as Kevin’s SSN wasn’t removed prior to release.
Steve's Job SSN is 549-94-3295. How can this release harm a dead person?
Him, probably not. His estate, however, potentially. Perhaps one could get a loan, using his SSN, and his estate gets the bill and subsequent harassment.
SSNs make terrible secrets and it's insane that you could harm a live person by knowing their SSN. I doubt that insanity stops just because you're dead.
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#18Surprised that personal info such as Kevin’s SSN wasn’t removed prior to release.
Other people have mentioned this… but it’s been established in policy that the SSN of a deceased person is not PII. There are a ton of different ways to get the SSN of someone who is deceased.
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#19It should be illegal for the government to keep redactions in anything made public/declassified. It's a slap in the face to see entire sections of text (that most certainly contain important context) blocked out with a white blob.
If that were the requirement, documents would not be made public/declassified unless the entire document was considered safe to release.
In many cases, a partial public document is better than no public document.
Re: Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
#20This will pair well with Mitnick's autobiography Ghost in the Wires , in which you get to read Mitnick's side of the story.
If you are into this topic, read as many point of view as possible and take a look at http://www.takedown.com/ (Tsutomu Shimomura's side of the story).
I've far more respect for Tsutomu. In the end he turned out to be the better hacker.
Reading Mitnicks book I sometimes get the impression that the he is making up half of it.