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Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador
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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A great opportunity for a name change!
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Kinda feel sorry for Ecuador. Developing country paying a script kiddie sec prof salaries.
That guy: I can secure that election for you, very cheap & virtually bulletproof.
I don't mean to challenge whatever white-hat work that Kevin Mitnick is doing, but the phrase does indeed strike me as something a lobbyist (or well, tout) would tell me. Perhaps I'm just cynical.
Trust in the democratic process is as important as the actual security of the process. So I would suspect that anything Mitnick finds will be discussed behind closed doors - and it's none of my business, but this does not add any more unless I trust Mitnick (viz not at all).
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damn you.
my technique is the best.
my boss is the best.
damn you. i know rdist technique,
i know sendmail technique,
and my style is much better.
But at least here he has the decency to refrain from telling everyone that he's going to secure the election for Bush, as Diebold did.
USA! Number one in election fraud!!!
Is "Mitnick Security Consulting" just the name for Kevin Mitnick as freelancer? Or is it more like a regular security company with a bunch of paid employees, with Kevin Mitnick as the brand figurehead / spokesman / PR guy?
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Considering what is at stake in the Condor region in particular and the efforts of the incumbent Presidente to hasten its demise, I hope Mitnick does exactly what he says he's doing.
Not sure what to think about this. In the USA a convicted felon is not even allowed to vote. In Ecuador they import them to make sure that the voting is fair. Then again, in the USA we are still arguing over trying to make voting more restrictive.
Mitnck is little more than a "script kiddy". Those who are not "in the know" like these Ecuadorians, have been sold a tall tale by a guy who got where he is not by hacking ability but smooth talking.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Who paid the underqualified for burger flipping son of an ex president the wages of the USA president, I think they're doing OK.
Seems like a pretty fucking cool country! One that actually cares about democracy.
Back in the mid-nineties, in one of my computer courses, we had to give a lecture about someone related to computer security. I chose Mitnick. His story then was legendary. It's only gotten better since.
And I got the highest score in the class for that assignment, so all I can say is "Go Mitnick!"
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
My ass he was. He was damned good at social engineering however, which he does deserve credit for.
In related news, Kevin Mitnick is elected President of Ecuador with 121% of the popular vote.
He should know better about aiding foreign governments who are hostile to the US after his ass was pounded by the feds.
He's just asking for a one-way trip to a indefinite detention in a military prison. Remember, Ecuador is harboring Assange.
So either he's incredibly naive or Ecuador is stupid and is trusting a double-agent of sorts that will help implement a digital coup to oust their leadership.
No. Kevin Mitnick is well know for his "weakness" for teen boys. This makes him a security risk to any public agency he associates with. Mitnick was a well-known "daddy" in prison, where he "tutored" younger fellow incarerates. Basically, he shared some of his "skript kiddy" knowledge to tome of the younger inmates for sexual favors. Many of these "students" would get out and start harvesting Credit Card Numbers.
Make no mistake, Mitnick is a predator. Several of his aliases can be found in the comments and forums at http://www.milkboys.org./
I suspect he used his "social engineering" skills to develop a dossier on some high ranking Ecuadorians to "persuade" them to hire him.
But clearly, his main interest in Ecuador is smooth young boys down on their luck who are - as some like to say - "young, dumb, and full of cum".
It is well known in certain circles that Mitnick actually collects cum-stained "bunn huggers" that he has his rent boys wear while he masturbates their firm hard circumcised penises to climax. He then places the garments in plastic zip-locks and has them FedExed overnight to his storage facility / sex lair.
Mitnick is known to be a fan of Pulp Fiction, and reliable sources confirm that he has a rented store-front in Los Angles where he has recreated the pawn shop with a sex dungeon in the basement.
It is at this Los Angles location that Mitnick keeps a private display of a selection of his most favorite cum stained "bunn huggers".
I tell you now, Ecuador, be very afraid!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I hope he stays there.
He was busted once, got a slap on the wrist, then the fucker went out and did even more.
Now the con-man is making $$$ off his name and rep.
As far as I'm concerned, the con-man had his second chance; and he blew it. /. should stop publishing anything with his name in it.
That's sort of a critical distinction - enough that it's not really the same thing at all.
Well done.
Mitnick could be included on a team but Mitnick is just one guy. They should instead use around 5 hackers as consultants and at least 1 of the 5 should be a hacker who either has never been caught or who isn't a celebrity. Mitnick as a choice is cool but also seems a bit like a publicity stunt to hire him and him alone for that.
> Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador
Wow, he can down Back Hawks with one hand, while dismembering grey berets with the other?
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FYI, Ecuador is a quite communistic country that nationalized foreign company assets without full and immediate compensation (in and itself a legitimate casus belli per the 1956 Suez War precedent) and Ecuador also refuses to pay back the loans it took from international investors and foreign governments. It is only a matter of time before Ecuador will see a regime change and install a right-winger government that cares not for "human rights" (leftist entitlement scams) but spins up the domestic economy in order to pay back the loans and to pay the full compensation sum for the nationalizations.
I think it needs to be made clear that leftist politics are OK in and itself, but stealing from others is not OK and the stronger countries will duly punish such behaviour and make change in the local regime if they see fit. The sanctitiy of private property is beyond human opinion, having been declared by God himself as in "Thou shall not steal!" and therefore supercedes the souverignity of countries and nations. Debts must be paid fully and nationalized wealth must be fully and immediately compensated for, else the most God-fearing country on Earth, the USA, must act!
Please can Anonymous or someone hack this election wide-open so Mitnick can be forgotten. Or better still, elect him as Ecuadorian President-for-Life.
No really. I am.
Far too often we focus on the crime and the criminal and don't care one toss for rehabilitation or reintegration into society. Kevin managed to do something stupid 18 years ago, got his ass busted for it, paid his debt to society and now is taking his talents and managed to find a legit and legal way to utilize them.
Good on ya mate.
So I'm OK with this. He turned his life around and instead of sitting on his ass and complaining how unfair life is that he got caught, he kept his nose clean, got past his probation (which denied him access to computers), pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made something positive out of the situation.
Whether or not his company is competent to handle that sort of job? Well that's on him and the staff he has hired.
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
Does this actually work out most times? A guy might be the world's greatest safecraker, but that doesn't mean he'd have what it takes to design a safe.
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Meanwhile, in the USA, Supervisors of Elections who dare to point out security flaws in computerized voting equipment are referred to as "traitors".
I'd be really interested in seeing another hacker group go up against him to see if he's as good as the legend says he is. And how would you know which side was successful? Certainly the outcome of the election is highly suspect. If you can prevent hacking, you also have detailed knowledge of how to stuff the ballot box.
"18 years ago I stopped someone's bleeding with a compress and saved his life. Now I'm holding myself out as a Doctor of Medicine. How cool is that?"
"18 years ago I argued a case in small claims court [or was busted for drug possession.] Now I'm acting as a lawyer to assault and murder defendants. How cool is that?"
"18 years ago I learned how to use an Excel spreadsheet. Now I'm a full time consultant for Microsoft Office 2013. How cool is that?"
Any of those statements including Mitnick's, if backed by the correct education and experience, may be true. But just because one was busted as a cracker does not make one a security expert. Maybe he's gotten the chops for the job... don't know, don't care. But the main thing that makes me dubious is... the best security people I have known and worked with are very circumspect and pretty private about their work - I was when I worked in physical security. In short, Mitnick's Ego just made his job harder - how many script kiddies will now be gunning for him? And were I his client, I'd have a nice long conversation about keeping confidences of a client and how that relates to confidence in his work.
Someone made an applet for others to use, it counted the time accumulated that Mitnick was at the time sitting in jail awaiting trial.
Good ol' days...