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ZDNet Talks to Kevin Mitnick

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the people-you-wish-were-policy-makers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Notorious hacker turned security consultant Kevin Mitnick touches on a myriad of issues ranging from law enforcement to Microsoft in a short interview with ZDNet. My favorite part is when he's asked if in his mind, Microsoft is a leader and the rest are still catching up. Mitnick answers: 'I am waiting for a case where a software maker gets sued for releasing buggy code, but they will probably cover their ass with the long license agreements that nobody ever reads.'"

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  1. Who cares what Kevin thinks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I alone in the opinion that Kevin Mitnick's opinion is worth less than a squirt of urine? The guy's a scumbag, stole from others, got caught, went to jail, and now he's... some kind of hero? Why don't you try and idolize someone deserving instead?

    1. Re:Who cares what Kevin thinks? by lpcustom · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I wouldn't call him a scumbag. I also really don't care what his opinion is on sercurity is either. He's capitalizing on his name. In all honesty though, he deserves to be able to do that. He was used to set a precedent. That's all. They were tough on him because they had to be to get their point across. Somehow, that's made him look like a major player in the "hacker" society.
      One key point about Kevin's story though...He got caught. People seems to ignore the fact that there were plenty of "hackers" at that time and Kevin is the one that was caught. So how does that make him the best or even close to the best? That's like being in a marathon, walking behind everyone, and since you're the one the media can keep up with they are asking you how you stay so fit and healthy. Makes very little sense.

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  2. Stories of a guy who got busted by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 2

    Why are there stories about a person, who's biggest fame is being arrested for computer crime?

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  3. Re:no software is bug free by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2, Informative



    You are confusing software that has bugs in it with buggy code. Mitnick is referring to gross negligence . In fact, if you RTFA you will find this quote:

    "Mitnick: Software is always going to have bugs because there are human beings behind it doing the development."

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