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

[Dan Cross]

In article <u9uvfm$1j9$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>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.

Oh my.

Sounds like the quip where the prosecutor told the judge that he
could whistle nuclear launch codes and start World War III over
the phone.

	- Dan C.