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BoingBoing is now confirming it: https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/kevin-mitnick-1963-2023.ht...
Confirming? They're reiterating from the same source as everyone else (dignitymemorial.com) hardly confirmed and can't even call that journalism.
https://www.securityweek.com/famed-hacker-kevin-mitnick-dead...
You're right, though, about my original post -- that was my bad! I read their blurb but didn't click through the link... thank you for the callout.
Wow didn’t see that coming. I met him at a HOPE conference with Steve Wozniak. Followed him for years from hacker zine texts distributed on CDs back in the day. Wow that’s really sad what a fun guy he was. His social engineering book was pretty interesting. That OKI phone story was so fascinating I bought a couple to see if I could do it too, although by then 900MHz was phased out. This guy made a difference in my li…
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dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner.
As one of the people whose credit card number was stolen from Netcom, I would strongly object to this. I'm not here to speak poorly of the dead, but I'm definitely here to judge those who think too highly of him.
dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner.
I'll go in tomorrow and update our August KnowBe4 training deployment for August to be a couple of his modules. Our users won't know, and I guess he won't either, but cancer sucks and it'll make me happy to do it.
dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner.
I am going to swim against the current and ask that you please not do this. His crimes weren't victimless and his actions hurt real people. While I think pancreatic cancer is a terrible thing to die from, and while I feel for his loved ones, HN's black banner is a mark of honor, and that is not something I think he earned.
Nobody's perfect.
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As one of the people whose credit card number was stolen from Netcom, I would strongly object to this. I'm not here to speak poorly of the dead, but I'm definitely here to judge those who think too highly of him.
As someone too young to have a credit card in 1995, I’m curious: was its theft more of a “big deal” back then? My Amex account number was stolen a month ago. It took me three minutes on the call with a rep to get it locked + a new card issued. I think I spent more time and effort on the phone with my dentist later that week.
Source: Someone cashed a fake check against my terminally ill father's People's Bank checking account this year and it was a couple months of work to deal with the fallout. Faking a check is absurdly easy and US banks kinda suck at dealing with it.