Looking back over #hacker related headlines from the 80's I've gotten to 1989, and it is really hard to exaggerate just how badly Kevin Mitnick was trashed in the press.
I knew in a general sense that he was but damn, stumbling across headlines like this. #Hacking hysteria and demonization.
@drakenblackknight I'm still of the opinion that some of that was his own hype that eventually bit him in the ass, but the media, and in particular some reporters selling books, did go out of their way to turn him into a boogeyman. Him and Poulsen both bore the brunt of changing attitudes towards hackers in the US as time went on.
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