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Mitnick Helps Bust Bomb Hoaxer
PhrostyMcByte writes "According to The Register/SecurityFocus: 'Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is a hero to the small town of River Rouge, Michigan, after using his tech skills to help officials nab the culprit behind a harrowing series of bomb threats.'" According to the piece, Detective Lt. John Keck "began searching the Internet for technical guidance, which led him to Kevin Mitnick, who'd earlier demonstrated a technique for spoofing Caller ID on the specialty cable network TechTV." Mitnick's comment on the bomb hoaxer? "He wasn't really hacking... he was really just being a jerk."
"He wasn't really hacking... he was really just being a jerk."
Wait... can't the exact same thing be said about Kevin Mitnick?
I have discovered a truly marvelous
Sorry, had to be said.
for a minute there, i lost myself...
Said by the kid when captured "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling haxors and your dog!"
That's when you log off and unplug your computer from the net, maybe move, get a different ISP, change MAC addresses... etc...
MORTAR COMBAT!
What I do not understand was why they just did not watch one of the many cop shows on TV to find out how to call the phone company to get a trace placed on the call?
I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
Kevin once demonstrated this caller id spoofing technique to me personally while I was working with him on his KFI 640AM radio talk show "The Dark Side of the INternet".
Believe me, it is extremely creepy to look at your ringing cell phone and see that you are calling yourself!
Kevin, bud...Great work!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
River Rouge, MI (AP)- Notorious hacking mastermind Kevin Mitnick has been spotted by Michigan law enforcement teaching people how to circumvent security protocols. His peripheral involvement in a series of bomb threats has been noted by officer Keck and is being investigated.
"...showed me how...hack...phones", said Keck (extraneous text removed for clarity).
Mitnick, known for his evil attacks against such pillars of the community as Sprint and AT&T, may also have been seen eating a puppy. - AP
Schools in texas are ran by idiots.
Res loquitur ipsa.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Mitnick wasn't rehabilitated.
He has just used his super-powerful skills of social engineering to make people 'think' he has been rehabilitated.
Now, the definition of "uncle" is "parent's brother" so Kevin would, in fact, be his own uncle. Along those same lines, the kid (other than possibly having flippers) would be his own cousin. I think.
If you had his babies, you would be the mother of Kevin's children, as well as his... um, mother-in-law? That's not quite right, since they're not married, but that's the general idea.
Kevin's father, then, would be the grandfather of kevin's child as well as the (step-?)father.
Ow, my brain hurts now.
You must never have called the phone company for service before. I imagine it was more like this.
I'm going to have to get Mitnick's number. It will probably be a lot faster to get my local service back in order by calling him than by calling Qwest....
I would've used the Trace-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster.
*blows wistle*
Illegal use of FARK cliché!
10 yard penalty; first down.
Hax0r busts hoaxer.
Speaking from related experience, this is true. Interrupting lunch is a very bad idea.
On the first day of grade 1 way back in the day, my class and I were standing in line to go into the mostly full cafeteria. The kid next to me said "Hey, pull that" and pointed at the fire alarm. "What is it?" I asked. "It's cool" he replied, or something to that effect. After a bit of coaxing, I did indeed pull the fire alarm. For the rest of the year, I was not known as the kid who got everyone out of the evil exam, but the one who pulled the alarm DURING LUNCH on the first day of school. The principal didn't believe that I didn't know what it was, which was in fact the case. My eyes were opened to many important realities of life through that little experience.
And now I'm doomed to wander the earth and repeat the story to all who will listen.
Now about this albatross around my neck...
The stupid kid made the calls from his own cell phone? If only terrorists were this stupid :(
I'll have to agree totally with your statement. The lack of profanity also makes you seem more intelligent than the average /. ranter
Don't give me too much credit. My first thought when I read your message was to think, "wow, no s#it!"
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
wow, so this must be where this M'Botu who contacted me about transferring his money to Europe got his money!
:)
hmm.. but the money from those offers totales way much over several hundred millions.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.