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Hackers1

Date Submitted: 11/10/2002 22:14:39
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 1 pages (282 words)
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Kevin Mitnick, an unemployed computer programmer was cyberspace's most wanted hacker. He could easily hack into top secret security and wiretap anybody, anywhere at anytime. When looking for information, Mitnick would make a few phone calls to Pac Bell offices pretending to be a Pac Bell employee. With his confidence, human nature and knowing the jargon, few challenge him on his request for data (hackers call this social engineering). Many people wonder what Mitnick's motive …

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…sidekick, Eric; also a computer hacker, Tsutomu Shimomura and many others. When Mitnick finds out Eric is working for the FBI, trying to bust hackers, Mitnick does what he can do best, he hacks, finding information on Eric. When he finds the information he's looking for (like a detective himself), he trys to put the evidence where the FBI can easily find it (why should Eric be working with FBI when he's a hacker himself).

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