Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Simson Garfinkel reviews Kevin Mitnick's book. Mitnick was supposedly some sort of super-hacker who could start a nuclear war with his computer. Now it turns out that most of his stunts were based on social engineering -- talking some clerk into breaking security procedures for him. Mitnick served several years in federal prison but it is hard to figure out what actual harm he did to anyone.

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