The feds decided to let convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick renew his ham radio license. The NY Times has an AP story. I guess the NY Times is too embarrassed to cover this story itself. It was the NY Times that created a myth about how dangerous Mitnick was. As a result of NY Times stories, he was considered "the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history". But it is hard to get an explanation of just what he did that was criminal.