[Info-vax] Famed US hacker Kevin Mitnick dies aged 59

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>
>I don't wish to speak ill of the dead; I met Mitnick once (I
>probably still have one of his "lock pick" business cards
>somewhere), but I don't think anyone thinks he was particularly
>technically adept.  His hacking "skill" was more along the lines
>of social engineering, at which I understand he was masterful.

He had very limited technical skills.

But he spent no more than five minutes on the phone with our head of 
computer security and we had to shut every system on the field down 
and change every password.
--scott

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