Kevin Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is one of the most famous criminal hackers to be jailed. He was arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1995. Mitnick was convicted of wire fraud and of breaking into the computer systems of Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems. He served five years in prison (four years of it pre-trial), 8 months of that in solitary confinement, and was released on January 21 2000. During his supervised release, which ended in 2003, he was restricted from using any technology other than a landline telephone.

External links

• Mitnick Security Consulting (formerly known as Defensive Thinking), Kevin Mitnick's new company.
• Free Kevin, The Official Kevin Mitnick Site, home of the Free Kevin movement.
• Freedom Downtime, the 2600 documentary.
• Freedom Downtime downloaden, Legal and free download.
• The Kevin Mitnick/Tsutomu Shimomura affair - lots of information on the case.
• The missing Chapter 1 of Mitnick's book (or from a site where it appeared earlier, but in MS Word format only.)
• Mitnick interview, February 5, 2003
• Kevin Mitnick Buys Hacker Stories for Upcoming Book Titled The Art of Hacking
• thebroken.org has a video interview with Kevin Mitnick in Episode 3 (released January, 2004)