A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

silexia 1 day ago|

The glorification of scammers needs to stop and we need to return to harsh Hammurabi law style punishment.

metalman 23 hours ago||

should say "grifted his dream car"

lovich 2 days ago||

I don’t need to know an iota of his activities as a hacker to hate him. I hate him because of how many times I had to be put through mind numbing security training with his mug as the opener. “I’m Kevin Mitnick” and KnowBe4 are seared into my brain at a ptsd level for terminal boredom.

kmoser 2 days ago|

> He put himself on the proverbial map in 1979 by dialing into a software company’s server and copying its forthcoming operating system release in its entirety. Imagine convincing a Microsoft server to cough over an early copy of Windows 12 using little more than a phone number.

Windows 12 was in development back in 1979? I think that timeline is a bit off.

NitpickLawyer 2 days ago|

The first phrase is what he did. The second phrase asks you to imagine how silly that sounds in today's world. (i.e. imagine that all it took back then was a phone number)

Kevin was from a different time. Back then security wasn't even an afterthought. He was exploring the shiny new thing of digital worlds, with an attacker mindset, and that was new at the time (and quite unique to a small set of humans back then).