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"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
by 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