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Harvard rejects

trharlan — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:46:03 -0800

"Hacker" discovers backdoor to Harvard Business School admissions decisions.
Harvard rejects all applicants who used the "hack."

Mitnick and Me

PrinceValium — Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:34:53 -0800

Mitnick and Me. Kevin Mitnick's girlfriend, TechTV producer Darci Wood, blogs their lives and defends his activities in anticipation of Kevin's return to the Internet later this month. Mitnick anticipates the end of his probation in today's NY Times.

idiolect — Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:01:55 -0800

John Draper says he's going straight for good and looking to "pay back society for [his] deeds in the past," by working with a software security outfit.

rschram — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:56:25 -0800

Mitnick is free to use computers for work
"[The] federal judge has ruled that such blanket restrictions are unacceptable and job offers should be considered on a case-by-case basis."

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:30:28 -0800

They bagged the kid who was responsible for all those Denial-of-Service attacks a couple of months ago. He's Canadian.

Here's an interesting legal question: could the US extradite him? The crimes were committed in the US, but he was in Canada at the time he did it, since he worked through the Internet. Whose laws apply?

(By the way, I've seen no indication that the US is considering extradition; I was just curious whether they could extradite him.)

mathowie — Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:47:24 -0800

Last night Kevin Mitnick was on 60 minutes (the gist of the interview is quoted here), and I have to say he came off as an utterly harmless geek. He was an information junkie that enjoyed the challenge of cracking firewalls. He never profited from his activities and the affected companies made up their monetary losses. It's a shame he was forced to waste away in prison instead of offer his security expertise to the affected companies.