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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."

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  1. Re:im guessing you were not popular in high school by RobertB-DC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    and now have an angry grudge

    Well, duh. This is Slashdot, after all...

    (p.s. your website is dixiechicks.com... just making sure you know that)

    No, it's not. It's dixie dash chicks dot com. Big difference, at least to us not- popular- in- high- school types.

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  2. Re:Who's driving the boat? by SoCalChris · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You do realize that after a story is accepted, it sits in a que for a while before making it to the main page, right? So even though the story was posted after your submission, it was probably accepted before you submitted yours. Or maybe your summary sucked and the editors liked this one better.

    Calm down though, it's just a /. submission, not something important.

  3. Re:move along. by mal3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure there is:

    70 MPH in a 65MPH zone.

    Downloading music online.

    Thumping someone over the head with a block of ice while they're swimming.

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  4. Actually... by gumpish · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's:

    Somebody set up us the bomb.

    See for yourself.

  5. Re:move along. by zerocool^ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've always thought that the perfect murder weapon would be an icicle.

    ~Will

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