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Ghost in the Wires: The Kevin Mitnick Interview

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ZDNet Zero Day Blog; By Ken Hess 		Mail this story
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The world’s most famous hacker discusses his new book, his exploits, his imprisonment and his success. Meet the Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick.

I can count on one hand the number of people who've significantly influenced a generation of IT professionals: Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Richard Stallman and Kevin Mitnick. I've had the unique privilege of interviewing two of the people in this list (Stallman and Mitnick). Each of the men in this list has his own unique approach to shaping the world in which he lives but they all have one thing in common: Passion for what they do.

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Comments (5)

stefragre ·
interviewing guys like this are NOT informative. Unless you admire people like him who steal and cause all kinds of mayhem. Oh sure he did his 'time' and now he's some kind of ?. Infamous. So now he's done his time. Writes books about his exploits, Brags actually, and now of course the very industry he abused has taken him back into the fold because he writes books.?
tuxchick ·
Tsk tsk, such cynicism stefagre. Of course Mitnick is going to be honest and not self-serving. People these days, always suspicious. He's not trying to shill his book or anything.

Look, I kept a straight face for almost four seconds.
Grishnakh ·
It's just like all the stupid kids these days look up to and listen to the music of rappers who are just criminals and thugs.
skelband ·
Who is this Kevin Mitnick?

Should I have heard of him?
TxtEdMacs ·
Quoting:Who is this Kevin Mitnick?

Should I have heard of him?


Now kids, let that be a lesson for you. That's what twenty years in the slammer gets you.

But it seems like only yesterday when he was denied access to all computing devices. Back then when long distance calling was so expensive that his exploits with codes (and other larceny) made him famous. That is, BVOIP*

YBT

* Before VoIP

P.S. I expect to be corrected.

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