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This reminds me of the first hacker suits, they were so scared of them, they thought they could launch an atomic bomb over the phone.
by sek 15y ago
This reminds me of the first hacker suits, they were so scared of them, they thought they could launch an atomic bomb over the phone.
- modev 15y agoA lot of people still think the same way...
- shalmanese 15y ago"Mitnick served five years in prison — four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement — because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone".[12] He was released on January 21, 2000. During his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, he was initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone. Mitnick fought this decision in court, eventually winning a ruling in his favor, allowing him to access the Internet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
- firefoxman1 15y agoI don't know if it's an urban legend or not, but I heard that they put a special cover on the light in his retaining cell because they were afraid he would find some way to "hack" his way out with the wires.
- nitrogen 15y agoThat would be an entertaining plot device in a spy movie: spy gets captured, finds that power fluctuations occasionally flip a bit in the memory of the security system, uses the light in his/her cell to flip all the bits corresponding to the door locks...
- boredguy8 15y agoReal hackers use butterflies: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png