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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."
It is an LLC, which doesn't really answer the question, but it does suggest it's on the smaller side.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
His attack on Shimomura, with DNS and ARP poisoning for an rhosts exploit? Not kiddie.
In fact, Mitnick has moderate to high "skills" in the standard of the c. 2000AD heyday.
His real forte? Is, was and shall always be social engineering. Really, an enviable confidence player.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
It's from the generator of random conspiracy theories at verifiedfacts.org. Some of them are actually pretty funny.
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The fact that he nearly single-handedly got the entire world to stop calling people "con-men" and start referring to them as enviable "social engineers" is his most staggeringly astounding accomplishment. That he now seems to have parlayed that into /actual/ social engineering is frightful.
In related news, Kevin Mitnick is elected President of Ecuador with 121% of the popular vote.