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nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

I'm going with 'pretty sweet'

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

Been a crazy ride, Bill!

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

The Judge in the case was a complete luddite and actually claimed to believe this. I still don't know for sure if she was just saying it, or she was that dumb.

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

A rather terrible video I made many years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzQY3KgOT8E

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

I apologize for going off. I just get triggered when people make such assumptions. He did not see Kev working on extremely technical achievements, I am sure. I did. To say he was mostly a social engineer is just incorrect, and I overreacted. The fact that he wrote a book on it is fair, but I know a lot about beer brewing and could probably write a book on it, but it's just one thing I know.

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

That's just nonsense. First of all, social engineering was a small part of his work, and it's OK that you don't know that. But your totally blatant ignorance of what his career covered is exactly what I'm talking about.

Look, I know that people form their opinions in a bubble. All I am saying here is you should expand your bubble. You know nothing about Kev. Again, that's OK, but it also means you should try to understand what you're hating.

You'd try to make money on your image if you could, I'm betting. Especially if you had been put in prison and left there with no bail hearing, and put in solitary confinement for 'hoarding tuna' in your cell. For 9 months. While your father died. This was not a normal treatment of any person in custody.

Kev was a good person. Full stop. Just as curious as all of us in that era.

nunleyon A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

I'm going to defend Kevin here because I see a lot of comments from people I am sure have no valid reason to be hating on him.

Kevin was particularly annoying because he never failed to penetrate a target. The reason that's annoying is it just takes one slip, one weak point, one inattentive admin and it's over. People will stay mad about that. I get it.

But those who say he had no talent are just ignorant.

His goal was to make the world safer, and making people pay attention to risk didn't make him a lot of friends. All the hate I am reading here is just sad.

If you hate Kevin and did not know Kevin, I feel bad for you. Hate is an expensive emotion, even when you're just being a keyboard warrior. It should be reserved for people who have really wronged you. Kevin is not with us anymore. The hate is hurting you, not him. And he has a son who will read this someday. Have a heart.