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Old 09-03-2003   #3
confucy
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Mike,

"this is kind of like seeing the end of the line for (computer hackers Kevin) Mitnick or (Kevin) Poulson,"

It's Poulsen, with an (e)! I'm not sure what this writer means by the sentence above. Kevin Poulsen was a creative hacker. He found a way to win a new Porsche by playing with the phonelines of an L.A. radio station. He had a sense of humor. He served five years like Mitnick at a Northern Calif prison along with some time at Metropolitan Detention Center in L.A. where Mitnick served most of his years in prison

Poulsen got his start after he left prison by taking a job as a writer/reporter for ZDNet. He put Mitnick on the map by writing about him. Poulsen works for securityfocus.com, and is a very good writer, which Mitnick will never be. You can trust Poulsen. You can't trust Mitnick. When Poulsen tells you he has written something, you can believe him. Poulsen writes about internet security. Mitnick *talks* about security, because that is all he can do....talk talk talk in his nasal voice which breaks and squeaks like a little kid. Mitnick is ripping off the public. I read his book. He didn't write it...his ghost writer did. Mitnick is sneaky and paranoid. Poulsen is open, and as far as I know...honest. Poulsen would fit-in at Oprano. Mitnick would be evasive.

Hope you don't mind, Mike, that I am getting my dose of therapy every time I see a post about Mitnick or hackers. I can't think of one hacker who has gotten as much undeserved attention as Mitnick.

It doesn't make any sense mentioning Mitnick and Poulsen in this story. John Zuccarini is a mousetrapper, a trickster who draws people with phony banner ads, a violator of the new law regarding sending internet users to pornsites by using misspelled domain names and redirecting non-porn sites to porn locations. The only connecton I see between Zuccarini and Mitnick is that Zuccarini had a domain name called KevinSpacy.com which was a misspelled name of the actor, Kevin Spacey, and Spacey had talks with Mitnick this year about putting together a movie. Other than that, I see no connection between this crook and the two hackers.

What is that game? Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Another Kevin!

I hope they put Zuccarini away for a long time.
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