It’s been a few years since I had the pleasure of sitting down with him at the Black Hat conference for a coffee in 2002. Joakim von Braun (then of Symantec) dragged me over to meet Kevin Mitnick. We sat and chatted for a little while as we watched the FBI agents do their worst best to fit in and look like they belonged there. I got a chuckle out of one particular agent that had a shaved head, polyester suit and the rather obvious ear piece and wrist microphone. Kevin seemed less amused than we were.
Arrested by the FBI in 1995 and convicted of breaking into the systems of Fujitsu Siemens, Nokia and Sun Microsystems, Mitnick served five years in prison–eight months of it in solitary confinement.
Now, eleven years after his arrest by the FBI he is a fixture in the industry. ZDNet UK has an interview with him that delves into social engineering
[tags]Kevin Mitnick, Joakim von Braun, FBI, Hacker, Social Engineering, Privacy[/tags]