@maxleibman Our IT security sent out an invite for courses on corporate security that were developed and hosted by Kevin Mitnick. I'm like "yeah, right, this is a crafty tiger team ploy to see if we're dumb enough to click on anything with the name of one of the most notorious hackers in history". I flagged it as phising and commented "most amusing". No. Turns out it was a real course they wanted us to take.
In remembrance of #kevinmitnick check out "The Best Computer History Movies", including the 2000 drama "Takedown", a biopic loosely about Kevin's main active hacking years. #ripkevin
Back when hacking was more about testing boundaries in security than about stealing the content behind the firewall, Keving Mitnick was almost the GOAT (he did get caught so the GOAT shall remain unnamed).
After prison, he moved to white hat hacker land and advising. His mischievousness (ask anyone about his recent business card) will be sorely missed by those of us who knew him.
Ci lascia #KevinMitnick, il re degli hacker. "#Condor" aveva 59 anni.
Le sue imprese, la fuga, la latitanza, il carcere crearono una figura leggendaria tanto che nel 2000 se ne fece un film tratto dal libro di chi lo incastrò:
I'll never be asked to contribute to his #obituary but he was the best #Social#Engineer I ever knew and I think he'd have been pleased to hear that -- So if he faked his death just to get that out of me, you are still a bastard, Mr Mitnick!
Just read that Kevin Mitnick had died. For those who don't know, he was one of the leading cybersecurity experts in the world.
I met him once a few years after his release from prison when he was still working on getting his life back together.
A couple of weeks after hearing an impressive interview he gave, I accidentally ended up at dinner with him. How that happened is another story.
Kevin was 100% human and nothing like the invincible caricature I expected. He spoke little and very much gave me the impression of a guy who still struggled a few years after being freed from prison.
He famously came away from that a changed man, but at least for that night, I saw a man who was defined very much by his wounds instead of his growing list of highlights.
Much admiration to him that he was able to build such a consequential new life. It felt to me that he could have easily become John McAfee instead.
I don't know if younger people know him now, but in his prime he was the most famous hacker in the world, not only in the modern widely-accepted sense (someone who breaks into computers for whatever reason) but also in the original sense.
Epitaph for a Hacker – RIP Kevin Mitnick (inkican.com)
What do we learn from the life and times of Kevin Mitnick?...