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Kevin Mitnick Speaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Signal 11 writes "Kevin grants a rare interview with Forbes Reporter Adam L. Penenberg and blames the media frenzy surrounding the now infamous hacker squarely on John Markoff of the New York Times. More info about Kevin Mitnick. "

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  1. Sick of hearing about it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    ...but not for the reason many others are. I see Kevin as having paid MUCH greater a price that he ever should have been required to.

    By holding him in such a blatantly illegal fashion for so long, they have hurt themselves worse than Mitnick ever could have. Now there are 100s (or more) of crackers out there that are just waiting to have their day. Mitnick has become a martyr in the classical sense, inciting others to anger and hatred towards our "moral guardians".

    I get sick of hearing about it because for some reason, killing someone is less of a crime than knowing technology and using it in a way the government doesn't like. It makes me ill to know what kind of state we are in