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Mitnick: Security Not about Technology

renai42 writes "Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say 'no', ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick told a full house at Toshiba's MobileXchange conference in Melbourne yesterday. 'We can't expect our employees to be human lie detectors,' Mitnick said. 'One of the most difficult challenges in corporate cultures is getting people to modify their politeness norms.'"

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  1. fp! by techfury90 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post! i live near where mitnick got arrested lol

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    I'm friends with the youngest daughter of the former head of the PowerPC division of IBM you insensitive clod!
  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. Re:Con-man gains fame at others expense... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gah. stupid autocorrect. "It's" supposed to be "Its".

    Btw, miss-placing an apostrophe in those words is a pet peeve of mine.

    *added "Its" as a word to spellcheck module.

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  4. I JACK OFF TO KEVIN MITNICKS PHOTO!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    THE MOST ELITE HACKER TO EVER LIVE!!! MY HERO@!*(*(@!*(@ *splooooodgeee* mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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  5. mod 3own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. so did the cop who busted him by cheekyboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah and a movie made about the deal.

    Blame the FED who wanted his ass bad, Id say that COP is a damn looser, sure he caught his nemesis evil bad guy and got a promotion, where is he now? I hope he feels good about himself how the justice-crap system treated kevin so badly (yeah all LEOs are brain dead otherwise they would have real jobs)

    "WOW Mum, look I cought a bad guy" Big deal, its like trying to catch flies with chop sticks.

    Mr LEO should have had the brains to investigate the bogus claims the companies used in their 'LOSSES' to claim uber large tax credits and insurance compo claims, I bet they got millions in benefits out of it and yet its considered 'normal business', yeah right. They are as bad or worse because they hide under the Armani Suits and lawyers in the firm.

    Let Kevin live it up, he was put thru utter crap because of dumbass red neck cops who now probably get bombarded with spam/spyware and CANT DO ANYTHING about it. HAhahhaha

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  7. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You probably want an em dash instead of a hyphen in there. Of course, there shouldn't be spaces around it either.

    Check out this article at getitwriteonline.com for more information.