This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Kevin Mitnick
Article: 7450 of alt.hackers From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Kevin Mitnick Date: 26 Feb 1995 17:37:33 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 21 Sender: terra@tyr.diku.dk Approved: Bill and Hillery Message-ID: 3iqe8t$ed5@odin.diku.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.diku.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #13 Status: RO
umbagna0@cc.umanitoba.ca (Mad Mann) writes: >Am I the only one who thinks Tsutomu Shimomura is a bit of >an ass, and not a hero for helping the FBI catch Mitnick? Probably not, try asking Mitnick. Since, however, Mitnick did a number of things he should not have done -- including fidling with Shimomura's machine -- I don't see that Shimomura should have acted differently. Furthermore, you're in the wrong news group. You have not understood the word hacker. Go read the FAQ. ObHack: Getting the local Electrical company to _refuse_ to accept payment. Still thinking about how to make the local version of the IRS do the same. Morten
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