Kevin Mitnick, the most celebrated U.S. hacker, has died at age 59.
Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker, has died at age 59.
"He never hacked for money," said Sjouwerman, who became Mitnick's business partner in 2011. He was mostly after trophies, chiefly cellphone code, he said. He was initially barred for three years from using computers, modems, cell phones or anything else that could give him internet access - and from public speaking. Those requirements were gradually eased but he wasn't allowed back online until December 2002.
In his prepared testimony, Mitnick boasted that he had "successfully penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed." But another side of Mitnick became clear in his conversations with investigative journalist Jonathan Littman printed in in the mid-1990s in "The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick." The hacker seems less a threat than a fearful, disturbed young man, more annoying than vindictive.b
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