Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 17, 2013 @06:57AM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

hypnosec writes "Kevin Mitnick, who was one of the most wanted computer hacker in the US at one time, is now heading a security consultancy firm – Mitnick Security Consulting, and is entrusted with the task of securing Sunday's presidential elections in Ecuador. Mitnick tweeted, '18 years ago I was busted for hacking. I do the same thing today but with full authorization. How cool is that?' His company will focus on protecting the Net Lock computer system tasked with tabulating Ecuador's elections."

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Re:so what does the company do? by osu-neko · 2013-02-17 07:24 · Score: 3, Informative

It is an LLC, which doesn't really answer the question, but it does suggest it's on the smaller side.

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Re:The Truth About Trace heavy metals by icebraining · 2013-02-17 08:16 · Score: 4, Informative

It's from the generator of random conspiracy theories at verifiedfacts.org. Some of them are actually pretty funny.

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