Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers

Re:Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers by eyeareque on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:51PM (#9273005)

Kevin is well known for his skills, mostly as a social engineer. I'd argue that he's one of if not the best at it.

He became famous when he was on the run from the FBI for a few years. This was one of my favorite stories: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Watch-Kevin-Mitnick-Explainin...

A lot of people don't know the history around him because it happened years ago. If you were following him at the time or if you've read his "ghost in the wires" book you'd see why he he's rightfully famous.

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Re:Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers by omgitstom on Thursday March 26, 2015 @07:05PM (#9273746)

I just worded this incorrectly. I'm sure Kevin is skilled. Being famous for hacking doesn't mean you are a skilled hacker. This is the way the article was phrased. Then they went on to say pen testing and have 100% finding vulnerabilities makes you good. Again, another false point. Thanks for your view of the article though, I'm always curious on other peoples views :)

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Re:Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers by wyclif on Thursday March 26, 2015 @05:38PM (#9273318)

For some reason the video is missing from that post.

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Re:Why Kevin Mitnick Is Still Breaking into Computers by eyeareque on Thursday March 26, 2015 @05:56PM (#9273415)

Here is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3O8XD1z0w

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