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I had lunch with a couple FBI agents a little while ago and one of the items of discussion was JP & AntiOnline. Apparently they had heard "somewhere" that he wasa under investigation, but couldn't officially confirm or deny his status as an investigatee. I had the very strong feeling that they were telling me yes, without telling me yes. Read about the lunch. -- Mike Hudack Editor: Aviary-mag.com 203-335-7100

I had lunch with a couple FBI agents a little while ago and one of the items of discussion was JP & AntiOnline. Apparently they had heard "somewhere" that he wasa under investigation, but couldn't officially confirm or deny his status as an investigatee. I had the very strong feeling that they were telling me yes, without telling me yes. Read about the lunch. -- Mike Hudack Editor: Aviary-mag.com 203-335-7100

Perhaps you are correct, and JP didn't intend for us to interpret "shut down" quite so literally. What does that mean, though? It means that he phrased things in a manner that left ambiguity as to the exact specifics of the situation, yet still conveyed his overall intent and meaning. That is the very essence of JP's writing style, and something that I have observed time and time again.

Each profession has a set of descriptive terms that provide a means of very precise differentiation between similar things. Lawyers don't use the terms murder, manslaughter and homocide interchangably. Likewise, security practitioners don't confuse datagrams with packets, or worms with virii. JP may actually have a much better grasp of networking and security than a total neophyte. JP's writing does not, however, demonstrate such a comprehension, and his writing about technical subjects is the only evidence the security community can examine to determine the depth of his understanding.

Slashdot gave JP an opportunity to demonstrate his aptitude for security, and he chose to squander that opportunity by disputing the moral and ethical characteristics of people who question his abilities. Those people may or may not have weak morals, but the discussion of that topic is a complete red herring; the questions addressed *JP's* abilities, and he failed to respond to those questions. If you are familiar with JP's history, you know that two things are clear:

1) his discussion of technical issues creates questions about his understanding and skill set

2) instead of having their questions answered, people who doubt JP's skills are accused of unethical behavior

Personally, I feel that JP's writings do not demonstrate the level of technical understanding that is required to work in information security. It would be nice to use some other metrics to measure his abilites, but, alas, he won't give us a list of clients to contact, or even a general discussion of the ten techniques he uses most frequently to secure machines. Actually, I've never seen him explain if he specializes in policy auditing, penetration testing, forensics, or some other area of security. Without some knowledge of what he does, I cannot evaluate the skill he has. How, then, can I accept JP as a "security professional"?

I love JP for his hard work and dedication to suing everyone who mentions his lame websites, http://www.anti*.com. I have been active in the shun antionline project and an avid reader of attrition.org. I went so far as to post a contest on my website (which isnt always up) to see who can get the most docs on JP. I now have his phone number and various other fun information. Id just like to ask JP why he lies, cheats, writes malicious stories, and blames most of the "evil hacker attacks" on actually decent innocent people. As for his shit filled Granny Hacker from heck business, its a load too if you couldnt figure it out. Someone broke into her computer and got her bash log and amazingly enough, she used DOS commands, but instead of stopping to see why they didnt work, she kept on using them over and over. She couldnt hack her way out of a wet, soggy paper bag if she had a chainsaw. JP is just a fraud. When he would chill on IRC in the utterly "3l33t" #hackphreak channel everyone would love to kick him out and ban him. JP has committed fraud numerous times, and I am dead serious. He steals content for his website and his "hacked archive" mirrors etc. He lied about tons of things, from "evil hackers" to source code. I remember one incident from a site that like segfault.org, mocked everything that is life, although it seemed a little closer to reality. They posted a story about some made up hacking group cracking into 30 consecutive top secret military servers, but put a comment in the HTML file that said "This is all bogus! -the management" and when lo and behold antionline had a news article about that group, they actually had cut the complete article (in the source), from the timestamp at the top to the last sentence, including the comment. You can see pictures and copies of the file on various sites. I dont have any serious questions because there are none to be asked. All I want to know is why he says he runs unix... when I have seen pictures of his shitty apartment which is filled with iMacs. I love you JP... you goat-fiending fag.

-love wh0rde

According to this article Mitnick has been using a "government-approved" laptop, which he dual boots in Windows95 and Redhat Linux.

http://aviary-mag.com/New s/Mitnick_Life/mitnick_life.html

I wonder if Red Hat will use this as part of their advertising campaign (a la Analyzer)? I wonder if the competition will use this ("Kevin Mitnick uses Red Hat, and he's in jail! Choose Debian!"). Thank god the Linux community isn't this competitive.

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