Interviews: Kevin Mitnick Answers

[Peter Motyka]

Posted by Roblimo  on Wednesday February 05, @12:15PM
from the black-hat-turns-white dept.
Kevin Mitnick has been crazy-busy with media tours and book promotion stuff, and apologizes for taking so long to answer your questions. But answer he has, at length and in detail, with a brief intro at the start to correct a story in which he says he was misquoted. He has some other things on which he wants to set the record straight, too. Lots of them. Strong stuff here.

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/02/04/2233250.shtml?tid=103&tid=123&tid=172

[Peter Motyka]

* First and foremost, I really can't start a nuclear war from a prison payphone, as prosecutors alleged, which resulted in my being placed in solitary confinement for eight months.

I can't believe such ridiculous ideas were believed by our federal government.  This type of stuff scares me when considering the enforcement of the "Patriot Act".

Peter

[Michael Kennedy]

-Begin Sarcasm-
Yeah, but notice how he said PRISON payphone?  That's being awfully specific. I guess that means he could start a nuclear war from a HOSPITAL payphone.  I'd have stuck him in solitary, too.
-End Sarcasm-

I'm currenty reading his "The Art of Deception" book which is pretty good.  It makes you think about stuff that wouldn't occur to us non-social engineering geniuses.  I never had an issue arise from where I've worked as an Network Admin (I was essentially the 2nd in command of an IT dept. for a business that grossed $15 million anually), but I can't say that I wouldn't have fallen for a few of these tricks Mitnick talks about.  Hopefully, when I'm done with the book I can guarantee I will never fall for any of them.   :-D