RIP.
Kevin Mitnick has died
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#202Re: Kevin Mitnick has died
#203"FREE KEVIN MITNICK, NOW" https://youtu.be/xkKa-jvh4Ik (@1:55)
Does anyone know where this samples comes from?
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#204He left us too soon. Does anyone else see a correlation of pancreatic cancer and our industry? It feels as if there's something about our profession. Steve Jobs, Randy Pausch, Now Mitnick? I've also had two coworkers who died of kidney/pancreatic cancer.
Beyond that I remember reading about him in 2600 and my mind being blown. He definitely helped leave the world we live in better than when he found it.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Having been threatened with murder and then blackmailed, with zero consequence to the perpetrators, I have first hand experience dealing with such corruption. Care to elaborate? This sounds like something too heavy to leave behind as a remark on a comment
The same has been done to me by the same systems both physical and electronic. I have mental and physical scars to show. The good die young if they don't realize the game they are playing quick enough. Godspeed.
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#206pour out some liquor for my homie
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would he have known the CEO's bank account number? Did the CEO write him a check at some point? Or maybe a bank's CEO traditionally gets account number 1…
Bank account numbers aren't secret, they're written on the bottom of every check you write. The story lacks the details of how he got his hands on it but its not unreasonable to assume he was able to access such unprotected information.
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#208If you're looking for other stories, The Art of Deception (Mitnick specific) and The Art of Intrusion (not all Mitnick) have a ton.
I wish I remember which book I read about Mitnick (and others). I developed a strong dislike for Mitnick, however. As others have said, he came across as an adolescent with an over-sized ego. More "Jackass" than "Silicon Valley". Although I'm sure he's not the only "hacker" for whom illegal entry into computer systems gave him a sense of self-importance. No thanks. Edit: yeah, probably was "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hac…
Eh, social engineering was and still is a major component of infosec, right?
He was very good at that segment of the industry ("penetration testing" via social engineering).
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#209dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner.
Concur.
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#210My parents vaguely remembered who Kevin Mitnick was when I gave my father my copy of 'Ghost in the Wires' to read.
I told him, this was the 'hacker' of the 80s, read how he managed to 'hack' all these places. My father replied, "I'm pretty sure I won't understand anything he would do". Me, "Just give it a chance, you'll be surprised"
When he gave the book back, I asked my father if anything Kevin did my father wouldn't have understood. My father said, "I understood everything he did". I asked, "Now, when you get a call from someone you don't know claiming to be an authority figure, what do you do?". Father: "Hang up"