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Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by jseliger »

melling wrote: post #169
ecohen16 wrote: post #141

When Kevin first found out he had Cancer, the doctors gave him "weeks". But you know Kevin -- he refused to accept his fate and found the top doctors in the world, tried experimental procedures and was able to get himself all the way into remission just 11 months later. It was incredibly inspiring, we all thought he had yet again beaten the system. It's tragic how the last 10 weeks played out, he fought all the way u…

Looks like he died from pancreatic cancer. This cancers always reminds me of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. He was a CMU professor who also died from pancreatic cancer 15 years ago. https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ Here’s an HN discussion from a few years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972377

There is some hope for improved M&M in pancreatic cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06063-y, thanks to personalized mRNA vaccines and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors.

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Post by ddkwlfe »

josh2600 wrote: post #48

Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique. Mitnick had so many stories that entranced the people around him. I heard one second hand of Mitnick dealing with a bank who had early voice veri…

int(phone number) "contained all ten digits" is the main embellishment. KM used different acct#. check delivery was weeks later, after negotiations. either way kevin was OG AF ..|..

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Post by dang »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #107
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If by "Saint Theodore" you mean the Unabomber... real saints don't murder people.

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Could you please stop posting flamebait? We've asked you several times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by larrywright »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #193

I was not aware he was ill. Always sad to hear people that are taken by cancer. I didn't know Kevin, but am friends with Tsutomu Shimomura who worked with authorities to get him arrested. Tsutomu worked with me a bit when I was at Sun trying to get a cryptographically secure subsystem into the base system specification. It was fun to listen to his side of this story. The 80's was a really weird time for computer enth…

I really enjoyed the book Takedown, about Shimomura's pursuit of Mitnick - I must have read it three or four times. I always wondered what happened to Shimomura, since he just seemed to drop out of sight after that book came out.

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Post by pc86 »

jonhohle wrote: post #89
pc86 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a 57-year-old man in the US has only a 50% chance of living to see their child reach 23 years of age Perhaps a clearer way to put it: a 57-year-old man in the US has a 50% chance of living to 80, which doesn't seem quite as shocking of a statement.

How many men are having their first child at 57? I’ll be well under 57 when my oldest child is 23.

I'm not sure what that has to do with the parent comment.
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