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Posted by mauvehaus 3 days ago

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison(www.thedrive.com)
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TurdF3rguson 2 days ago|
I heard he can launch nukes by whistling into a pay phone.
RetroTechie 1 day ago||
Impressive.. what pay phones?
jagged-chisel 2 days ago||
Maybe I'm mistaken, but that sounds more like Chuck Norris.

Wait ... no fists involved. My mistake.

alex1138 2 days ago|||
It's in his (Mitnick's) autobiography Ghost in the Wires. In his telling of the story they put him in a more restrictive environment exactly because of the reason given (launching nukes by whistling into a phone)
bonesss 1 day ago||
At the time people were using whistles to make free long distance calls, so I can understand where they were coming from.

The part I can't understand is believing that phone-whistles are connected to our nuclear launch system and not simultaneously trying to put nuclear missile operators in jail for incompetence.

"Oh the world might end with some whistling? Definitely punish the whistlers, that's where the problem is..."

nunley 1 day ago||
The Judge in the case was a complete luddite and actually claimed to believe this. I still don't know for sure if she was just saying it, or she was that dumb.
fallous 2 days ago||||
Nukes launch Chuck Norris at their enemies.
uberex 2 days ago||||
With Chuck Norris, the nukes whistle at him, just to keep on his good side.
DonHopkins 2 days ago|||
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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 days ago||
Wow. Get help.
DonHopkins 1 day ago|||
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account42 1 day ago|||
People have different views from yours. Get over it.

We don't need to cancel everyone who who isn't what the current system considers the ideal cog.

trick-or-treat 1 day ago|||
Maybe just don't drag homophobia into unrelated threads?
Gibbon1 2 days ago|||
When I think back to when I was 10 and every boy I knew idolized Norris and I instinctively hated his guts I feel better about myself.
netsharc 2 days ago||
Hah, he social engineered the God of social engineering...
e12e 1 day ago||
Looks like op mostly a rehash of the linked Wired story?

https://www.wired.com/2002/02/mitnick-meets-his-pigeon/

https://archive.is/oMcKd

wyclif 1 day ago|
That 2002 Wired article is still behind a paywall. Shameful.
Tade0 1 day ago||
As kids in the 90s in eastern Europe hardly anyone of us knew the name Kevin Mitnick, but if you were interested in computers at all, you'd certainly recall Condor.

I think this was the first time I heard someone being forbidden by court from accessing the internet. At the time we had like two, maybe three kids in class who even used dial up regularly.

Simulacra 2 days ago||
I also have Kevin Mitnick's business card and it is one of my most prized possessions. A great inspiration and influence on my life.
boombapoom 2 days ago||
good god how did he get a car into prison?
nba456_ 2 days ago||
Too bad he wasn't colorblind.
sborra 1 day ago|
*whom
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