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Mitnick Calls for Hacker Stories
ram writes "Famed hacker and master social engineer Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned to write a new book following the success of his first text The Art of Deception. The new book, tentatively titled 'The Art of Intrusion' will tell the stories of real hacks, with the names of attackers obscured to protect them from the authorities and their victims. Mitnick has called on retired hackers to come forward with their stories, offering a $500 (283) prize for the best story that makes it into the book, and a $200 payment for all stories that make the final draft."
he will take care to protect the identities of the targets too. I can see no end of trouble when "A Big Co." finds out they were completely rooted and had no idea..
IANAL - lets say for the sake of argument I was an ex-hacker with a story to tell that ended up in print. Even with this much vaunted anonymity I would still be worried about publically confessing my misdeeds. Especially in the UK where hacking offences can be covered with anti-terrorist legislation these days.
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1. Get others to produce the content of your book
2. Publish
3. ???
4. Profit!
How does he intend to confirm the stories are true? If he is trying to keep indentities quiet, he is going to have problems confirming them.
Let's see...I'll give away a few hundred dollars for some stories of hacks, put them in a book and make thousands of dollars from it. I think he's still a damn good social engineer.
because he was held without a trial for so long.... and eh, in the mid 90's people in the phreaking/hacking community decided to rally behind him. that part, i don't remember the specifics of. also, he was one of the first publicly discussed (newsmedia, websites) individuals banned from computer or electronic device use. funny sidenote, in highschool several years back, i was testing innoculate's latest patches for the school (without telling the network admin bumblehead), and i ended up being banned from touching all electronics at school nearly indefinitely! they wouldn't even let me troubleshoot a printer or a vcr... fools. it was funny though, and i was the first such case in the school district. go figure.
Personally, I could see this turn of events coming. Having read books such as Cyberpunk and Takedown and watched that doco "Freedom Downtime" I've drawn the conclusion that Kevin appears to be more "misguided" than dangerous and also more "attention seeking" than a model hacker for script kiddies to chase after.
:)
I must admit though, I would be _very_ interested to read this book when it hits the press
...and I'll be happy to give to you some kinda fish story. Yea, there was that time back in '83 where some buddies and I were sitting 'round our dorm room and thought, "Hey, how long's it been since someone's busted into Langley's database?" And so, we all tossed five bucks in a pot for the first to break in and find the SS# of the Director of the CIA...
Really, how are you gonna know that these stories are actually real?
Well d00d I got this l33t tool called t3ln3t. I connected to other people computers and got things like "SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.7.1p2". The 0th3r kidi33s were like. "D00D!!". I was like w0ah. I am so l33t
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Setup a Machine and they can hack into it to submit their stories.
;P
This way if they are good enough not to be traced, the chances are good they actually did something real. It also removes most of the possible "script kiddies" submittions
Sanity is a majority vote.
Unfortunantly, he is rather busy at the moment.
I would send him an email and tell him about it, but I don't think he's gonna be answering anything electronic for a little while.
No, this is not a joke. Yes, this is a real friend of mine. And yes, I am probably a rat bastard for posting this on here. However, he did some of this from *home*!
Jesus eppie, I thought you knew better than that!
I guess the reason I am posting this is for all those of you who think that "thrill hacking" for fun, and not doing any real damage, will just get you a slap on the wrist if you are caught. Bet thats what eppie thought.
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