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       Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hac
       ker - K. Mitnick
       By: ChipRawks Date: September 21, 2011, 9:47 pm
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       [CENTER]Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most
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       Ghost In The Wires is about one of the craziest, insane reads I
       have ever come across. Boy, was this a fun ride from start to
       finish. I originally came across this book while watching The
       Colbert Report and Kevin Mitnick was on the show promoting the
       book and when Stephen Colbert ask him about why he was thrown
       into solitary confinement when he went to prison and Kevin
       responded with "...the defense argued with the Court Judge that
       I could start a nuclear war simply by calling into NORAD and
       whistling the code." I KNEW I had to read this.
       So, did it live up to what I was expecting? Oh hell yeah! It's
       everything and more, plus the kitchen sink too. I swear, I was
       reading this fast and furious and I could not put the book down
       at all. At 400 pages, I went through this pretty fast. The
       entire time I was reading it, I was picturing this as a
       thriller, a movie that is sure to happen. I can guarantee you
       that it will become a feature length film down the road.
       Contrary to popular belief,
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       />was not based on his life as a hacker, even though the
       similarities are there and that was the first thing that kept
       coming to my mind as I read the book.
       There as some pretty wild stuff inside, like how Mitnick was
       able to elude the FBI, CIA and every known Government Agency
       simply by hacking into their phone lines and frequencies and
       setting up an alert for when they were closing in on him and it
       worked....for 3 years. Crazy.
       One of the best cat and mouse games in the book occurs when he
       meets up with a "world renowned" hacker by the name of "Eric
       Heinz", only to find out that he is in fact an FBI Snitch
       looking to take down Kevin. But it's the ensuing invesigation
       into Eric's background that truly leaves you spellbound in the
       ease in which he takes apart everything the FBI worked so hard
       to put together. He literally makes it look like a hot knife
       through butter. That easy. Just...wow.
       Along with all this high octane thrill rides, there were some
       pretty funny pranks that he pulled like the McDonald Hack where
       Kevin is able to hack into the Drive-In Speaker box from across
       the street and watch the hilarity ensue with drivers pulling up
       to place their orders. Love the scene when a Cop drove up to the
       speaker box to place his order and Kevin at the other end of the
       radio frequency tells him they "don't serve cops and he will
       have to go to Jack In The Box"
       The other funny one was when he tells this chick that if she
       shows her titties, her Big Mac was free, only to enrage her to
       the point of turning off her car, grabbing a baseball bat from
       the car trunk and heading inside the resturant. Priceless!! The
       rumor about Kristy McNichol was pretty funny too.
       This is a definite Buy. I can't wait to read this again....and
       see the movie when it happens.
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       Re: Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted
        Hacker - K. Mitnick
       By: ChipRawks Date: September 21, 2011, 9:50 pm
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       Re: Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted
        Hacker - K. Mitnick
       By: Mac Date: September 22, 2011, 7:57 am
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       Sounds like a pretty interesting read
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       Re: Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted
        Hacker - K. Mitnick
       By: ChipRawks Date: September 22, 2011, 8:50 am
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       [quote author=Mac link=topic=359.msg2010#msg2010
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       Sounds like a pretty interesting read
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       You mouth will hit da floor. I'm not down with hacking because
       anyone can become a victim. But because Mitnick's only objective
       was just to bypass security, kind of like a sport where is is
       matching wits with the other people on the other side, I was
       able to just sit back in awe in how easy it made it look. When
       he kept one upping the FBI, I couldn't help but crack a smile
       Go get this book from the Library ASAP!
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       Re: Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted
        Hacker - K. Mitnick
       By: Mac Date: September 22, 2011, 9:20 am
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       I almost said **** this after watching the 60 minute report. I'm
       glad I watched it to the end.
       Hackers are complete scum and really, he was a scum. I think his
       attitude was scum and today I think many hackers today retain
       his old mindset. They are not doing wrong. It's a challenge...
       addiction, and it makes many other folks life miserable... for
       what.
       But I see how he changed his way... and that's a good thing. But
       still, I came very close to saying **** it... because of
       principle.
       I'll look for it at the library
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       Re: Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted
        Hacker - K. Mitnick
       By: ChipRawks Date: September 22, 2011, 10:10 am
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       Yeah, watching the 60 Minute Interview he does come off as a
       douche. But in the book he never came off that way at all. It
       was actually quite startling to watch him talk after reading the
       book. My initial reaction was the same as yours.
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