Fair points. But I think Mitnick was a victim of two men intent on promoting a book and making a profit, and it just so happened that painting a picture of an evil, villainous anti-hero was just the sort of thing that makes for "goodreading". So I think Mitnick's rights as an individual were definitely infringed by John Markoff.
Here's a more fair summary of the Shimomura/Mitnick case.
The co-author of the story is John Markoff... author of "Cyberpunk" and the very same guy that helped capture Kevin Mitnick with Tsutomu Shimomura using mobile phone taps and server logs? I don't know, maybe this article seems a tad hypocritical coming from an guy who got a lot of success for himself and his books by infringements of the privacy of another individual.
The headline in the article reads "The snoop-proof laptop" - the aim is to prevent people snooping, i.e. covert data theft. If the device is stolen then you know your data is at risk, or has already been stolen. Basically, you want to be the first to know if someone's just read all your secrets.
Used to be, developers put a lot of time and effort into making software compact and min spec - friendly. No more.
Yeah, I remember the days of the console-PC crossovers like the Amiga (I had an A500). Games developers were limited to the specs of the cheapest machine usually, so the majority of games had less than 3 disks and used just 512KB memory. But I think this had a most positive effect on playability - I think modern games rely too heavily on cut scenes, sounds, fully immersive 3D etc.. I was thinking of starting a movement for creating games that will fit on a single 1.44MB floppy, and use less than 1MB of RAM - hopefully this will make for better games! Anyone with me?
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Fair points. But I think Mitnick was a victim of two men intent on promoting a book and making a profit, and it just so happened that painting a picture of an evil, villainous anti-hero was just the sort of thing that makes for "good reading". So I think Mitnick's rights as an individual were definitely infringed by John Markoff.
Here's a more fair summary of the Shimomura/Mitnick case.
The co-author of the story is John Markoff... author of "Cyberpunk" and the very same guy that helped capture Kevin Mitnick with Tsutomu Shimomura using mobile phone taps and server logs? I don't know, maybe this article seems a tad hypocritical coming from an guy who got a lot of success for himself and his books by infringements of the privacy of another individual.
The headline in the article reads "The snoop-proof laptop" - the aim is to prevent people snooping, i.e. covert data theft. If the device is stolen then you know your data is at risk, or has already been stolen. Basically, you want to be the first to know if someone's just read all your secrets.
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