Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker (63 page)
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Authors: Kevin Mitnick,Steve Wozniak,William L. Simon
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Holding up a bumper sticker from inside the Metropolitan Detention Center’s inmate law library, in Los Angeles, to a crowd of “Free Kevin” supporters outside, on my thirty-fifth birthday
(Emmanuel Goldstein,
2600
magazine)
In Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution visiting room, 1999, age thirty-six
The day I was released from Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, January 21, 2000, age thirty-six
(Emmanuel Goldstein,
2600
magazine)
Gift wrapping on the PowerBook G4 Steve Wozniak gave me in front of television cameras to celebrate the end of my supervised release, January 2003
(Alan Luckow)
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, me, and Emmanuel Goldstein (founder of
2600
magazine) on the television show
The Screen Savers,
celebrating the end of my supervised release, making me a completely free man: January 20, 2003, age thirty-nine
(Courtesy of G4 TV)
CONTENTSBoys will be boys: me before cyberspace (Author’s personal collection)
PART ONE:
The Making of a Hacker
15 “How the Fuck Did You Get That?”
16 Crashing Eric’s Private Party
PART FOUR:
An End and a Beginning
37 Winning the Scapegoat Sweepstakes
38 Aftermath: A Reversal of Fortune
AUTHOR BIO
K
evin Mitnick, the world’s most famous (former) hacker, is now a security consultant. He has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs offering expert commentary on information security. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and written for
Harvard Business Review
. Mitnick is the author, with William L. Simon, of the bestselling books
The Art of Deception
and
The Art of Intrusion
. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
LSO BY
K
EVIN
M
ITNICK
The Art of Deception
(with William L. Simon)
The Art of Intrusion
(with William L. Simon)
Copyright © 2011 by Kevin Mitnick
Foreword copyright © 2011 by Steve Wozniak
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The names Betty, David Billingsley, Jerry Covert, Kumamoto, Scott Lyons, Mimi, John Norton, Sarah, and Ed Walsh are fictitious names that represent people I encountered; I used them because, although I have a strong memory for numbers and situations, I don’t recall their real names.
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ISBN: 978-0-316-13447-7
