Mitnick fakes way into LA Telco Central Office

[bringingyoudogs]

a hacker with humor...this is the goofball we couldn't stop laughing at in high school

[dellee69]

she didn't call back because she didn't know the number. CO phone numbers do not register on caller ID's and she didn't work at that CO, she was a supervisor at Cosmos which is an entirly different department. She prolly called her office to get the number for that CO and by the time that number was in her hand Kevin and Steve were most likely in their car laughing.

[trignite]

so why didn't she ring back?

[ivanoschen]

@trignite It's 2:30 A.M.

[elisaulcordova]

why didnt the superviser tell the cop she/he didnt know who "Steve" was?? this is so not what happened, there are reports he was sent to jail that night. :P

[mortl8324]

@elisaulcordova Because he hung up the phone?

[NPSurvival]

Beast

[TMFW]

...He changed his story...In his book this story is about a helicopter factory...

[opolisnetworks]

Hellooooooo??? Wouldn't she call back? Wouldnt she wonder who the heck it was and call back? --- Sorry I probably misunderstood :(

[ommar460]

@opolisnetworks yeah iwas thinking the same as you if i was here i would have called back the office and ask what happened

[quelorepario]

For those idiots who think that Kevin Mitnick was technically lousy, you should read how he hacked to Shimomura's personal ftp. That attack was highly sophisticated and purely technical, with ip spoofing and tcp sequence number guessing.

It was an ingenious strategy, carefully handcrafted, planned and executed for the first time in the real world. He played with a lot of assumptions and all of his assumptions about the infrastructure were right, this time exploiting trust between computers.

[carlostinonsa]

@quelorepario

Umm, where you read that?

[quelorepario]

@carlostinonsa anywhere, it is known as the Christmas Day Attack / Sequence Number attack

[trinidad143]

DAMN... he is too smart man..thats why he is that best at social engineering.

[dennis3380]

by luck the name of the supervisor was right??!!! WHO BELIEVES THIS???!!!

[MohadibTheHorrible]

@dennis3380

oh, so him having codes to the building is acceptable, but not an employee/supervisor list?

[cjn0001]

@dennis3380 he knew it from searching he had done earlier

[ame7272]

A nation of thieves and idiots!

[762full]

@ame7272 why were u from? Some place they hate jews?

[ame7272]

@762full Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries. So yes, i live in one of those lol...idiot.

[762full]

@ame7272 There a difference between the past and the present :)...silly fool

[BTC141]

But I wanna know if they let him tour around the building and if so, what did he see. For all we know the security guards may have smiled and told Mitnick and his friend to go home.

[gav240z]

This stuff is so nerdy, but so fucking cool at the same time ;)

[Techlur]

My god that was awesome. Smart idea to press the phone against his ear.

[MetalManiac257]

Its quick thinking like that under pressure that makes him a great hacker among other things.

[Rzeractor]

Haha, he would be an awesome guy to hang out with for a day.

[Vuigi]

@ Josiah:

He didn't imply the name of the supervisor was Sally, he was adlibbing. He may not remember the name himself, he may not want to reveal the true identity of the supervisor, or it may actually just be a bs story. The main purpose of the story was to connect with people who have a sense of humor.

[JosiahM1970]

I call bs. Did I hear him wrong or did he say he GUESSED the name of some RANDOM Supervisor...and the bloody name was SALLY!?

[67steinip]

Hacking isnt something only done on computers biggerflexible. So technically he can be called a hacker, i can tell you for sure i am going to quote from the takedown movie which is bullshit movie but non the less "You did not get this from me, i do not want mitnick coming after me" Simple :) he was a very talented on phones and social engineering but still knew computers enough to use the information to get in to systems into offices into SAS for example, that is not done by telephone so :)

[SCHIZOPHRENlC]

Mitnick's gotta MBPro, how many hackers you know use Mac's OS's?

[sestsa]

He just writes and speaks nowadays.

[biggerflexible]

He never was a coder to start with, what are you talking about?

[biggerflexible]

Everyone that KNOWS anything, knows that Mitnick has a rep for being a hacker but he was really a social engineer. He used his social engineering skills to gain access to tech specs and instruction manuals. Most script kiddies could beat him on todays battlefield.

[sestsa]

Bullshit. Whilst his social engineering skills are his best asset, he knew his way around a computer.

[biggerflexible]

You are a pathetic wannabe that gets all his info from movies and TV. Mitnick was one of the best Social Engineers and Phone Phreakers period. A few times he used these skills to gain ACCESS to computer systems. Hackers use only hardware and software to BREAK IN. Most elite can do both but there is a distinction between the two skills.

[sestsa]

Don't get me wrong, sir. All I am saying is that you make him out to be useless with computers and reliant only on other methods. I know he wasn't especially great but he could use a computer to some extent.

[biggerflexible]

Greetings and Salutations from the Mitnick Liberation Front It seems that once again, that slanty-eyed chink Tsutomu has made another dollar at the expense of a hacker, Kevin Mitnick. In reality, Kevin Mitnick had no skills. But we do. Tsutomu's Kung-Foo is _still_ no good. Maybe we should read his book to be "skilled" in the art of Unix security? Nah. %dh%

[subasurf]

Stupid monkey nigger.

[biggerflexible]

That should shut you up friend lol. Please if you want to be down with the game do your research before getting in, thats what I did.

[biggerflexible]

That was sent to Tsutomu's after they rooted Tsutomu's box.

[CamroYT]

trolllllll

[OneidaCountyNy]

evil

[ishmaboy]

lol my last name is Mitnick. Kevin's my third cousin :P

[bsdpowa]

hahaha this is incredible

[enigma800]

None of the Hollywood C.O.'s have 9-floors. He's gotta be talking about the Madison Complex on Grand in L.A.

[AmazingPwnzor]

wouldnt she CALL BACK?

[jeffer0326]

maybe hours later, she might not have the number, back in those days caller id and *67 weren't common

[oneshotkill27]

mayb after they had already left

[jbockmon]

She did this story is in his book he left right after that and she called back and the guard had that oh sh*t moment

[92runescape]

Legend!

[helloworldweb]

Excellent :)

[MEpianist]

I see Emmanuel in the background, You're the man!

[PiPeXTa]

true

[jamessfromtx]

holy. crap.

That's freaking amazing!

[kitsune361]

All I have to say is:

Balls. Of. Steel.

[jimlune]

what a dude