Mitnick Helps Bust Bomb Hoaxer

Posted by simoniker on Monday May 3, 2004 @05:40AM from the you-go-girl dept.

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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Re:im guessing you were not popular in high school by RobertB-DC · 2004-05-03 05:52 · 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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Actually... by gumpish · 2004-05-03 06:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's:

Somebody set up us the bomb.

See for yourself.