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Kevin Mitnick is crying somewhere...

• DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
  the only hack Kevin Mitnick ever pulled was convincing people he was a hacker.
  • 627467 6y ago
    Reading through his charges[0] regardless of what we here consider that he has done, his criminal conviction seems to imply he was considered a "hacker" by the law. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
  • mumblemumble 6y ago
    The words "hack" and "hacker" are cognates, but both words have evolved over time, and not all senses of the word "hacker" describe someone who produces hacks. Social engineers and script kiddies can absolutely fit under the umbrella, too, and that's been the case for roughly a quarter century now. Perhaps longer.
    • thesepeopledot 6y ago
      "Produces hacks" this isn't even a thing. Can people please stop commenting on HN threads pretending to know about hacking and making false claims.
      • mumblemumble 6y ago
        Producing hacks is a thing, even if the phrase itself is not common, and it's a thing that people were doing long before hacking/hacker had even taken on the sense of breaking into computers. Look, there are really only two general approaches to arguing over the dictionary: Trotskyism (i.e., permanent revolution), and joining with the forces of evil.
  • thesepeopledot 6y ago
    Sounds like someone is jealous of him. He was clearly a hacker.