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Happy birthday, Kevin Mitnick!


What do you think, is it worth recognizing August 6 as the day of the hacker ?
(or a day of social engineering)

Kevin is an outstanding hacker and social engineer for the following reason.
He "hacked the system" at the meta level. From the point of view of TRIZ, he achieved the ideal end result .
Kevin organized everything so that if earlier he was persecuted for what he was doing, now what they are doing is queuing up and paying money.

(on the photo: Steve Wozniak gives Mitnik an Apple computer)
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Another remarkable fact is that Kevin did not go to the university, but studied with the help of these textbooks , which he downloaded from hacked computers.

Chronology of the early hacks of Mitnick


12 years
- first phone frauds;
15 years
- fake bus tickets;
16 years
- hacking a school computer network;
- Hacking McDonald's radio;
17 years
- the first illegal entry into the territory of Pacific Telephone;
- “ RSTS / E hacking thesis”;
- Kevin’s “girlfriend” hacked using Mitnick’s data and accused him;
- penetration into the COSMOS building;
- the first conditional term;
18 years
- hacking of the University of Southern California, arrest;
25 years
- the first prison term is 12 months, the prohibition to use the phone, under the pretext that Mitnick can hack NORAD ;
28 years
- hacking the Novatel phone (using social engineering), which allowed changing Mitnick ESN .

Under the cut, there are several video interviews of Mitnick, a story about hacking McDonald's radio communications and links to interesting articles.

Excerpt from a book:
McDonald Hackers

Lewis and I had a similar sense of humor. I considered and still believe that any hobby that cannot be called fun is not worth the time and effort spent. Lewis and I lived on the same wavelength. We came up with a joke called “Hackers from McDonald’s”. We guessed how to remake the two-meter radio antenna so that it was possible to speak from the loudspeaker that hung above the McDrive window and over the place where visitors ordered their favorite fast food. We drove up to McDonald's, parked there, from where we could observe what was happening and go unnoticed, tuned our portable radio to the restaurant frequency and had fun.

For example, a police car pulls up to the window of the McDrive. As soon as she reaches the loudspeaker, I or Lewis announce: “Sorry. We do not serve the cops here. Go better to Jack in the box. ” Once a lady slowed down under a loudspeaker and heard my voice: “Show tits - and“ Big Mac ”at the expense of the establishment!” She did not understand the joke, jammed the car, snatched something from the bag and ran into the restaurant, swinging a baseball bat .

My crown number was called Free Apple Juice. After the customer made the order, we reported that the ice machine had broken, so we distribute free juice. “We have grapefruit, orange ... Oh, sorry, it seems that both grapefruit and orange are over. Do you want apple juice? ”The visitor, of course, agreed. We turned on the recording of the sound of urine pouring into the cup, and then said, “Good. Your apple juice is ready. Drive up to the window and pick up. "

Lewis and I thought it was fun to confuse people, not to let them make an order. When the loudspeaker was in our power, we waited for the client to slow down and order something. Then one of us repeated this order, but with a strong Indian accent, which allowed almost nothing to make out. The client said that he did not understand, and we again and again answered something completely incomprehensible, bringing customers to hysterics over and over again.

The most interesting thing was that all the things that we said on the McDrive were also clearly heard from the loudspeaker, but the staff could not cope with it. Sometimes we noticed how other customers at the tables in the fresh air were laughing. However, no one understood what was happening.

Once the manager came out and tried to figure out what happened to the loudspeaker. He looked around the parking lot, scratching his head. There was no one around. The cars were empty. No one hid behind the restaurant sign. The manager came up to the megaphone and leaned against it closely, as if he was trying to see inside some little man.

“What the hell are you looking out for here ?!” I cried in a raspy voice.

The manager bounced, perhaps, about three meters.

Sometimes, when we were hooligans, people who lived in neighboring houses, went to the balconies and had fun. Even those who passed by on the sidewalk cried with laughter. Lewis and I sometimes even invited friends to such shows - it was very funny.


- Actually, I’ll reveal to you a secret: I’m still hacking all the time. I constantly hack the system, the only difference is that now the clients give me permission to do this and pay money so that I can help them identify security problems that can be fixed later. So everybody wins - both customers and me. My activity today is as if Pablo Escobar retrained in pharmacists.
Forbes article: Ex-Hacker # 1 Kevin Mitnick: "I'm like Pablo Escobar who became a pharmacist . "

Vedomosti (2014): Legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick: "I was Edward Snowden of the 90s . "

Interview channel "Russia 24":



The US has access to everything:



Amateur "true" documentary (there is an interview with Kevin's grandmother):



Hackspace members drink Club Mate with Kevin Mitnick:







Eugene Gorny "The Mitnick Saga" (1996)
Article on Habré about Kevin (2009)
Article on Habré Abstract of Kevin Mitnick's speech in Moscow (2013)
Kevin Mitnick 's book The Art of Deception (including an unpublished chapter)
Kevin Mitnick 's book The Art of Invasion
Book ( must read ) “Ghost in the network. Memoirs of the greatest hacker "
(Read in one breath, cooler than any movie or invented detective story)

UPD (Aug 7): Happy birthday, Jimmy Wales (father of Wikipedia)

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/232343/


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