Tag: Kevin Mitnick

• And on to “The Selfish Gene”

  So, having completed (listening to) Kevin Mitnick’s Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker I decided that the idea – of listening to a book while pounding away on the exercise equipment at the gym – is a good one and I would pick another book, but not a novel (it…

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 26, 2012

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  Bloomsbury, Evolution, Kevin Mitnick, Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene, Stephen Jay Gould

• The end of Kevin

  So many hours in the gym later (believe it people) I have got to the end of the Kevin Mitnickaudio book. Do I feel much more sympathetic to him? No, not really. Yes, he was treated badly at various times. And he spent a lot of time in prison awaiting trial. And the US penal…

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 25, 2012

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  cracker, Hacker, Incarceration in the United States, Kevin Mitnick, phreaker, Prison, social engineering, Social engineering (security), United States

• Trying to work out why some people think Kevin Mitnick is a hero

  For the last six months I have been spending a fair bit of time in the gym – I am getting older and I need to lose weight and increase fitness. In truth, I quite enjoy it in general, but there are moments when I want to stop just because running on the same spot…

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 7, 2012

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  audio books, Bell Labs, Ghost in the Wires, Hackers, Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick