Mitnick died Sunday in Las Vegas after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Rest in peace.
Mitnick died Sunday in Las Vegas after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer, said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of the security training firm KnowBe4, where Mitnick was chief hacking officer.
“He never hacked for money,” said Sjouwerman, who became Mitnick’s business partner in 2011. He was mostly after trophies, chiefly cellphone code, he said. Upon his January 2000 release from prison, Mitnick told reporters his “were simple crimes of trespass.” He said “I wanted to know as much as I could find out about how phone networks worked”.
“His ingenuity challenged systems, incited dialogues, and pushed boundaries in cybersecurity. He will remain a testament to the uncharted power of curiousity,” tweeted Chris Wysopal, who as a member of the white-hat hacking group L0pht testified before the US Senate a few years before Mitnick did the same.
Mitnick had first been arrested for computer crimes at age 17 for brazenly walking into a Pacific Bell office and taking a handful of computer manuals and codes to digital door locks. For that, he served a year in a rehabilitation center, deemed by a federal judge as being addicted to computer tampering.
But another side of Mitnick became clear in his conversations with investigative journalist Jonathan Littman printed in in the mid-1990s in. The hacker seems less a threat than a fearful, disturbed young man, more annoying than vindictive.
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