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Kevin Mitnick has died

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Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by xupybd »

jseliger wrote: post #211
melling wrote: post #169

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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.

That's good to hear. It's one of those cancers that is normally not noticed until it's far too late.

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Post by cjensen »

callalex wrote: post #230
cjensen wrote: post #93

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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.

Is that Mitnic’s fault? Or the incompetent greedy executives of Netcom?

What greedy executives? This was the early days of the Internet and there was tons of competition. And yes, OF COURSE IT WAS MITNIC'S FAULT. Why in 2023 would you even think of blaming the victim.

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by technick »

Kevin is partially the reason I decided to work in information security. I remember reading his book, art of deception, and it gave a name to the skill I had practiced most of the childhood, social engineering. Later on in life I got to meet him and spent the first at least 2 hours of time in shock n awe. Afterwards, he was great to talk with and offered me his number if I ever needed another set of ears. Sadly I haven't talked with him since the pandemic, but he will forever be remembered.

Hopefully our paths will cross again.

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Post by PostOnce »

wnissen wrote: post #31

He certainly was an interesting person. It was always amazing the degree to which law enforcement prosecuted his hacking and cracking, when it seems like much more impactful crimes involving computers go uninvestigated. Plenty of people are hounded by threats of violence into leaving their jobs and homes, that seems far more impactful than Mitnick's crimes. And FYI, while he died unexpectedly young, a 57-year-old man…

None of the commenters expressing this bullshit sentiment will provide their children with 1% of the education, health, freedom, security, etc that Mitnick will have left for his child. We struggle our whole lives to provide, it looks like he already assured that for his family, even into perpetuity if managed well.

It's not like he gave himself cancer on purpose and chose to leave a child with nothing out of spite. He played the hand he was dealt, it seems.

"Mitnick has filed a 13G form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing ownership of 9,379,829 shares of KnowBe4, Inc. Class A (KNBE). This represents 6.9 percent ownership of the company. "

" companies announced on Wednesday that they have entered into a definitive agreement, with KnowBe4 stockholders set to receive $24.90 per share in cash, "

"Vista Equity Partners to Acquire Security Awareness Training Firm KnowBe4 for $4.6B"

https://fintel.io/news/mitnick-kevin-discloses-stake-in-knbe...

https://www.securityweek.com/vista-equity-partners-acquire-s...

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Post by jbaber »

booi wrote: post #56
gkoberger wrote: post #6

Wow. He was only 59. I've always loved his lockpicking business card: https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/kevin-mitnicks-famous-lockpi... While I assume this is real, part of me does feel like a combination of how young he is and who is is leads me to be slightly skeptical. Assuming it's real, hopefully he would have appreciated the skepticism.

Can you still get one of these? It says send cash in the mail so… I’m skeptical

I, too, was concerned it was some kind of hacker gotcha trick, but took the leap of faith and mailed the cash.

They did ship the card to me.

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by cjensen »

mabbo wrote: post #125
cjensen wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Did this cost you money personally, or just inconvenience you?

Are you asking if I lost money or was inconvenienced when someone stole my personal info? If I steal your medical records, are you only victimized if I share them?
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