Talk about short sighted judges and police officials. It is obvious with his skills that he could have enriched himself illegally, but he didn't. They could have tapped his skills much earlier than they did. Glad he is a decent person and not evil. He used his genius and made our world better. Thank you Kevin Mitnick.
Let's see : counterfitting bus tickets...hacking a telephone making costly calls at the expence of the telephone company... All this is hinting towards sociopathy. Now if you know about the documentary 'Peace Officer' you'd know that the U.S is hiring sociopath ex-cons to get them to work as police officers... The logic being "they don't get nerveous when things get tensed"... So i guess those doing the hiring should maybe also do some psychological testing for personality disorders... There's always people without these disorders that can do the same thing.
Exactly what's wrong with our system...instead of giving him a jail cell - they should have gave him a job the 1st time his skill came to light...l think we can all agree that people like this are few and far between & should be moved forward instead of being locked away
@@michaela3028 I broke the law when I was 15 and was sentenced in juvenile court to work as an assistant librarian in a law office. I read as much law as I could while filing the steady stream of documents. Can't say I have been perfectly compliant with every statute on the books. But nobody is or can be. Thanks to prosecutorial lenience, I later managed to get 3 university degrees with Grade Point Averages from 3.7 to 4.0 (out of 4.0). Since 1970, I have worked for corporations and international organizations in 20 countries. Had they sent me to jail, I would have learned another career from the inmates, almost certainly of little value to society. Which is why the executive branch of government reserves the right how to prosecute or not to prosecute based on the public interest.
@@fwcolb but you learned or hopefully learned there are consequences to your actions and just because you are smart doesn;t always mean you are above the law. At least it shouldn't, but thats not always the case either. Really, the more money you have would be more helpful and this kid wasn;t about money, nor did he have any ( yes he could have), but the people he pissed off had a lot of money. Sadly, it seems are laws are more governed by moo-la than justice sometimes and maybe in part thats why he did what he did. Thankfully, his smarts set him free along with the fact that he wasn;t an evil person. Our system isn't perfect but it keeps us civil for the most part or at least until recently. Yes we can;t be compliant with all the statues , but so long as you dont violate ones you know are wrong ( kill, steal, rob, trespass etc) you dont need to know all of them and if you do, then you will hire an attorney, but we all know which criminal statues not to f with. I suspect maybe your crime had something to do with manipulating the law or someone saw something in you that said you were smart and might be a good lawyer
@@johnjohn-cs9eu There's no way NOT to track electronic deposits. I watched a movie of a guy who had a brilliant plan. His job was to burn old currency. He'd switch it with counterfeit!
The irony was in those days they only employed you if you were atttractive. Not cos you had a brain. Didn't want nerdy looking people - bad for their PR. *WOW how things have changed.* It was Gatesy that made nerds employable. Prior to that they'd be working McD's, Funeral Parlors, Sewers ... bowels of government, then hospital porters until the massive immigrants job swipe.
Exactly. But I think in the beginning the guy was just so curious that he didn’t care for it. He had a side job just to get by. Money wasn’t his priority. Still a bad ass story. Love it
More embarrassing, even still today, none of them had/have the mental capability to see how valuable he would be for the computer world. They still let their computer systems be hacked on a daily basis, because with their slow minds it's just easier to pay the hackers off and act like nothing happened.
He didn't change his school grades when he was a school kid, didn't enrich himself like any other greedy human, but did all he did because he was fascinated & intrigued by the world of computer. Wow, he's definitely not a criminal😂, the world was dealing with someone way above & beyond their league😄 I salute his intelligence& perseverance. Wish I had just 10 pc of it
"didn't enrich himself like any other greedy human" are you sure about that? I'm sure he was capable of doing it without anyone ever noticing. The banks back then were wide open to a guy like Kevin, and even if they did notice the theft, they didn't say anything as it would put their reputation down the drain.
@Ryuk55 That SUCKS !!! I'm so sorry to hear that. I despise thieves, but hackers who do it to prove they can break a firewall is what I meant.I don't even know if that's the right terminology. I'm not a computer guy, just like the stories.
@@bohemoth1 Nope ! It was Adams weakness that lost us the garden of paradise. Eve was the temptress. Adam chose to commit the SIN. Adam was the first created human being too. He was the oldest. Just thought I'd add that as in a family, the oldest usually makes the final decision for the family. In reality they both made the decision to go against God, but Adam had a choice too. So don't place the blame squarely onto Eve. If Adam said, " I will obey God, " we might still have The Garden Of Eden, Paradise. Read this in the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis.
Bernita Centeno I partially agree although Eve wasn’t the temptress per say, the serpent was. The serpent singled out Eve Bc he knew that Eve would be weaker to temptation and Eve ate of the fruit first and then gave to her husband who then ate also. It was Eve first, but you’re right Adam knew better and should not have disobeyed God. I think it took Adam eating the fruit to really bring the world into sin Bc God gave the authority of Earth to Man (Adam) and so Adam also disobeying God, took the keys away from Adam if you will
Really a Gem of a Man. Its all in his honneur. He didnot cheat but only nourrished his passion. His judgement is not justifying cause he didnot use it for himself.
I’m very happy he didn’t actually steal any money. I’m also incredibly annoyed that they wasted so much of his time in jail when they could’ve used his skills.
He should have been awarded so many times,given the fact that he was such a potential helper, not a stealer of money in any case...love this curious kid...also his friend who turned him in was such an asshole😒😒
SPD adventure His so called friend was not an asshole. He was not a friend. He was a competitor in a game of Life and death. The reward was the respect of the rest of the wolf pack for the alpha male; and a well established pecking order, that all involved willingly submitted to. That was phase one of any social group. 1. Established who is most capable of leadership. 2. Everyone else establishes where they fit in the chain of command by competency. 3. It seems they never got to phase three. Or did they? He now owns a world renowned company as the undisputed leading expert in the world. PHASE 3 is as a well ordered group working together they showed the people in power that they had no power at all. That they were not the masters of there own creation. The billionaire corporation built the systems, by all knew Kevin owned them. So it's easy to say so and so is an asshole, but you learn nothing when you carelessly dismiss the actions of an individual. His frienemy upped the game stakes. Said frenemy, immediately admitted defeat when he ratted out Kevin to the authorities and used the enemy (, being the establishment ) to do his dirty work. The attitude was " okay you're better than me" : Now let's see you get out of the trap of being caught for what you're better than me at. Kevin rose to the challenge as was his reputation. He had the government's criminal Justice system wiped out all of his police records and court records and just for fun decided to do the same thing to the judge, that the judge was doing to him. The judge got a taste of his own medicine, as perverse Justice was irrationally and illegally performed on The judge. The result of all of this: Kevin has a high paying company that performs security checks, and he can name whatever price he wants. In effect he's become the internet Mafia extortion racket legalized. Summary: Always follow the money this is rule 1. rule 2, find out how somebody is financially profiting from what they're doing, no matter how irrational/ follow the money. 3. When you find out how they're making money from whatever it is they're doing. Then all of their irrational dysfunctional behavior will become perfectly understandable. All of the actions or the behavior is to get to the dollar sign. And Kevin's case it was 30 years researchand promoting that the world has to pay attention to him that he exists and that he's important and that he is a force to be reckoned with. The marketing and advertising campaign took 30 years.at the end of the 30 years he had his own company where he sat as basically Yoda, of his own computer Jedi force. He now looks acts, and behaves like a mafia godfather. He took: all the lumps took all the hits took all the attacks took all the risks and PREVAILED. He doesn't need a security clearance to work for the government. His security clearance would be to hire him without a security clearance; and tell him to break into the system. Then preventing anyone else from doing the same.
@@ardentares1167 always remember there's no one in this world that won't do you wrong if it will save their own ass and you are correct trust no one ..............
To think the only times he ended up in jail were due to the jealousy of those around him and his own choice. Take those away and he could have slipped through the fingers of history.
I thought it was more like the 1995 movie called ‘Hackers’ and the best hacker in the movie was the character Dade Murphy aka ‘Zero Cool’ aka ‘Crash Override’.
HE WALKED IN AND "CONFESSED"!!! I THINK HE WAIVED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL! HE KNEW HE DESERVED WHAT HE GOT & WAS WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE! THERE SHOULD BE MORE PPL LIKE HIM WHO FESS UP & TAKE THEIR CONSEQUENCES!!! MORE ppl should have that much integrity!!!! I hope he does very well the rest of his life. He CERTAINLY ISN'T a thief!
Can you imagine if 45 and al the Corporate Welfare Queens did the same, as his/her crimes have been and are a lot more serious than this situation? Kevin is a true enterpreneur, not the posers who go with their hands out to govt when their own poor decisions usually go wrong. I can go on about how same have the tax code covers their theft.
smart kid! a more enlightened society never would've locked him up; they would've immedately realized ho valuable he is to help companies prevent hacking
I am the same age as him. When I was 18 I learned how to make free phone calls on any pay phone. I learned other phone hacking too. It was not that hard. If I had been around others of that kind, no telling how much trouble I would have been in. When I was in my mid 20's I made friends with Bell telephone programmers. But that was only to learn C computer language.
I hope this dude is interested in helping the world and finding the ones responsible for world destruction. He has the skills to get all the information he wants to remove corruption from the world
@@johannacannata1090 Julian Assange needs to be released, immediately or it’s obvious that the storm of Capital Hill is what the Founding Fathers wanted for America!...
The major companies and FBI should hire this guy. He was not self serving or greedy. He is just intellectually curious, what a missed opportunity for our government to hire him to work for us. He is a misunderstood genus.
He is not a hacker, he is a genius . I understand that he interrupted some people's privacy but never steal from them. If I were him I would be a multibillionaire hiding somewhere safe.
An extremely intelligent young man. Just goes to show what ppl can do with what they have a real interest in & aptitude for when they apply themselves. I think of my own interests back when I was young... I didn't even have a home if i didnt wotk there. No computers then, either! I just spent my time WORKING & didnt have time for school. I was 38 before I made it to college! BUT, I got my degree- and worked. Just think, he did all this BESIDES his class work! Whew! Good thing he didn't have to make a living too!
Where is he now? He's like Mozart! He should get the recognition and support he deserves because he could save the world! We need him to protect our country from cyber attack. I hope he's doing alright. What a guy!!
When I was a chemistry professor from 1973 to 1977 a young man arrived at my office with a “blue box”. He connected it to my office phone, dialed the chairman of my department. There was no answer so my boss put his phone down. From that moment on I could hear everything spoken in my boss’s office. He spoke to other professors about me. I could tell they were conspiring against me, to get me fired.
I’m cheering and love him. I wish to be like him. I would never inform on him. I would consider him more than the president of the USA and many other heroes. He is my hero and I’m rooting and admire him. Definitely thumb up. 👍👍👍💚
Excellent movie! New kid walks into the classroom, instantly realizes the teacher will be late and poses as the substitute teacher and immediately identify the cool kid and proceeds to humiliate him. First thing, first day.
I can't believe the woman who turned in the group of hackers. Revenge never works. I wonder how her life went afterwards and does she regret her treacherous behavior.
What I find to be the most compelling feature of Kevin was that he truly was doing what he loved. He could have wreaked such havoc if he was doing it for self-gain. But, he wasn't and as such is a glimpse of what people could be. His heart is truly the more salient feature when compared with his mind.
I was working for DIGITAL in Colorado Springs when he hacked them and we were all told about it in a meeting about cyber security.... He is a very smart man.
Glad that Kevin Mitnik turned back to the Light Side 🔵 from the Dark Side ⚫ like when he just wanted to ride in the City Buses ... Thank God he now help the Homeland Security for Protecting the Innocents! Thank You Kevin Mitnik >>> Computer Hacker Extraordinaire! 🕯
I was born in 1970; at age 14 I got a Commodore Vic 20. It had (2000 bytes) of ram, yes 2kb. Home computers weren't a thing; much less in 1978 when he was 15. You had to have a company computer to do the level of work he was. Mostly there were no laws preventing access to a company computer as it was only used by them and people with a computer to get in. Basically they left a back door open and he walked right in. The laws stopping us from "hacking in"; were governed by the telephone company (FCC). Most notably was wire-tapping. That was the closest law that could be considered broke (if he was just snooping around and didn't put money in his account). Imagine your biggest fear of breaking into a corporate computer was the telephone company will come to get you. Now why didn't they give him a job? Well, he was best at what he was doing, he was the one criminal that needed catching. Think of a thief walking through an open door, are you going to give him a job because he's good at it? Nope. Early on, he was tampering with phones and phone lines, not necessarily using a computer, but a similar set of skills. To get into a computer system in the late 70's; you connected your computer to a phone line and it dialed a phone number. You can't analyze what he was doing based on today's technology. What bugs me is back then they used an auto dialer to call every number in an area until it got a computer response and not someone saying "hello" this is how they found phone numbers of possible use to pass around to other hackers. Today scammers do this all the time, Tell me have you not recieved a "local" phone call only to find it's someone in India or elsewhere? They may just hang up. What they are really doing is seeing what phone numbers are live (a person or potential victim) and later you get calls from other scammers. They sell this information. Most of the time it is the same area code and prefix to your own cell phone. If you call that number back; someone answers, very confused because they never called you. Why is this a bigger problem unsolved today and not 40 F*!@#*(( years ago. I guess it's because so few did it then and now it's just common place. Some moron had the audacity to tell me my social security number was being revoked and I should call now. - you can change your name, your gender, your religion but you will never change your social security number (unless witness protection or something like that) and it can't be revoked!!! Great story about him, we just need to understand what was going on back then to make sense of it.
When I worked at Toyota as a computer programmer, Kevin Mitnick came to Toyota to give a talk on cyber security to the Information Systems department as part of his judicial sentence.
Nicely done, quick presentation! I followed this ‘Kevin’ story as it surfaced in the 80’s onward, & was always fascinated by him, never considering him a bad person. With his talents, he could have been truly evil in wreaking immense damage. People forget that @ one time. Steve Jobs & ‘the WOZ’ were ‘phone phreaks entrepreneurs’ like Kevin.… & making $$$ in their efforts. There’s a number of good books written about Kevin, though only one referenced in this video […& one of the best].
@@darksayian5369 on paper it sounds like a good movie and it is literally Johnny Lee Miller's and Angelina Jolie's first starring roles as well as having a random Penn Juliette as a nighttime IT security guy and Matthew Lillard for comic relief. Where it all falls down is the execution with a ton of misused terms, goofy hacking visuals, and everything already being horribly obsolete before the movie came out. They have 1 painful scene where they are all admiring a new computer with a cutting edge blazing fast 28.8 k modem. The movie is popular with many computer people but as a straight bad comedy rather than the thriller it was meant to be.
An intelligent person.he could easily gain admission into any first rate college had he choose to and made good.nonetheless he did contribute something to computer security.
God loves you he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins he is so good because he brings happiness and joy and if u ever need help in bad times just pray ❤️🙏😊🥰
God gets 1/10. He has created a defective product and any self respecting God would produce only quality creations with the supposed powers they possess.
I was one of these telephone hacking victims. We live in Israel. At 1992 this kind of exorbitant telephone bills washed the country, and when the telephone owners asked the reason of these ridiculous high prices to the only one Israeli "Bezeq Corporation" telephonia company then, to know why we were paying so much, they discovered that these numbers were used for long erotic conversations and outside Israel... for us it was in the Caribbean islands, but under our private telephone number!!!!. At 1993 my daughter was a timid quiet 11 y old girl and my son 13, and we had to pay 1000 dollars for a telephone bill !!! Bezeq accused our children of doing it, when we stopped paying our bills.... The hours these conversations were registered in the bills coincided with school hours and children were not at home!!! Nobody in this telephonia company made anything to help us out , and so we agreed to be cut out of membership with Bezeq corporation for 7 and a half years, during which we remained without a telephone at home, till we bought our first cellphone. at the beginning of 21st century.
Give this man a JOB! Are you kidding ME! He didn’t gain anything from his activities. He just perfected his passion. Maybe it’s good he wasn’t offered one because it allowed him to start his own business using the what he learned! Took a long time to get to that point. Shocked no one saw potential in him sooner, just lock him up. Crazy!
Talk about short sighted judges and police officials. It is obvious with his skills that he could have enriched himself illegally, but he didn't. They could have tapped his skills much earlier than they did. Glad he is a decent person and not evil. He used his genius and made our world better. Thank you Kevin Mitnick.
The first hackers were not crooks - they just wanted to understand the systems.
Let's see : counterfitting bus tickets...hacking a telephone making costly calls at the expence of the telephone company... All this is hinting towards sociopathy. Now if you know about the documentary 'Peace Officer' you'd know that the U.S is hiring sociopath ex-cons to get them to work as police officers... The logic being "they don't get nerveous when things get tensed"... So i guess those doing the hiring should maybe also do some psychological testing for personality disorders... There's always people without these disorders that can do the same thing.
Exactly what's wrong with our system...instead of giving him a jail cell - they should have gave him a job the 1st time his skill came to light...l think we can all agree that people like this are few and far between & should be moved forward instead of being locked away
James Letaw : 👍👍 I agree. It’s sort of sad that here he is, a great hacker and all they keep doing is throwing him into jail. What a waste of talent!!
Right on
I think it’s because it’s the law. You can’t make an exception for someone just because they’re smart.
@@michaela3028 I broke the law when I was 15 and was sentenced in juvenile court to work as an assistant librarian in a law office. I read as much law as I could while filing the steady stream of documents. Can't say I have been perfectly compliant with every statute on the books. But nobody is or can be.
Thanks to prosecutorial lenience, I later managed to get 3 university degrees with Grade Point Averages from 3.7 to 4.0 (out of 4.0). Since 1970, I have worked for corporations and international organizations in 20 countries.
Had they sent me to jail, I would have learned another career from the inmates, almost certainly of little value to society. Which is why the executive branch of government reserves the right how to prosecute or not to prosecute based on the public interest.
@@fwcolb but you learned or hopefully learned there are consequences to your actions and just because you are smart doesn;t always mean you are above the law. At least it shouldn't, but thats not always the case either. Really, the more money you have would be more helpful and this kid wasn;t about money, nor did he have any ( yes he could have), but the people he pissed off had a lot of money. Sadly, it seems are laws are more governed by moo-la than justice sometimes and maybe in part thats why he did what he did. Thankfully, his smarts set him free along with the fact that he wasn;t an evil person. Our system isn't perfect but it keeps us civil for the most part or at least until recently. Yes we can;t be compliant with all the statues , but so long as you dont violate ones you know are wrong ( kill, steal, rob, trespass etc) you dont need to know all of them and if you do, then you will hire an attorney, but we all know which criminal statues not to f with. I suspect maybe your crime had something to do with manipulating the law or someone saw something in you that said you were smart and might be a good lawyer
Kevin was smart enough to realize that only banks get away with stealing millions of dollars.
I once worked at a cc processing co. One lady thought she could get away with transferring a co.s deposits to her acct. for 1 day. She got ten yr.s!
Brilliant. Best comment this week on the whole of the internet.😂
@@phlushphish793 She was ensnared by her own stupidity.
@@johnjohn-cs9eu There's no way NOT to track electronic deposits. I watched a movie of a guy who had a brilliant plan. His job was to burn old currency. He'd switch it with counterfeit!
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The CIA and FBI should have employed Kevin after his first arrest, instead of imprisoning him.
That was my exact thought too. These days Hackers are employed for their skills.
The irony was in those days they only employed you if you were atttractive. Not cos you had a brain. Didn't want nerdy looking people - bad for their PR.
*WOW how things have changed.*
It was Gatesy that made nerds employable. Prior to that they'd be working McD's, Funeral Parlors, Sewers ... bowels of government, then hospital porters until the massive immigrants job swipe.
they did he wrks for fbi, abnagal
Exactly. But I think in the beginning the guy was just so curious that he didn’t care for it. He had a side job just to get by. Money wasn’t his priority. Still a bad ass story. Love it
@@mike62mcmanus it is Kevin's story
Don't you get it . He wasn't thrown in jail because of stealing anything , he was throw in jail for embarrassing the people in power .
More embarrassing, even still today, none of them had/have the mental capability to see how valuable he would be for the computer world. They still let their computer systems be hacked on a daily basis, because with their slow minds it's just easier to pay the hackers off and act like nothing happened.
They like to make an example out of people like this..
Very, very smart man. At the end Authorities knew how intelligent he was they did not want to miss such a genius
They also need him on their side otherwise they would again face him on the other side. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
He didn't change his school grades when he was a school kid, didn't enrich himself like any other greedy human, but did all he did because he was fascinated & intrigued by the world of computer. Wow, he's definitely not a criminal😂, the world was dealing with someone way above & beyond their league😄 I salute his intelligence& perseverance. Wish I had just 10 pc of it
After getting that 10% you’ll ask for more, that I’m sure!
"didn't enrich himself like any other greedy human" are you sure about that? I'm sure he was capable of doing it without anyone ever noticing. The banks back then were wide open to a guy like Kevin, and even if they did notice the theft, they didn't say anything as it would put their reputation down the drain.
Hackers deserve job offers, NOT prison. Don't let a good skill go to waste.
Not if they deprive others of their duly earned and owned property.
A skill that could be used wisely. They are freakin' powerful, alot of people get robbed
@Ryuk55 That SUCKS !!! I'm so sorry to hear that. I despise thieves, but hackers who do it to prove they can break a firewall is what I meant.I don't even know if that's the right terminology. I'm not a computer guy, just like the stories.
@Rakesh Kumar TOTALLY agree !!! I DESPISE thieves of any kind. Those who prey on the elderly and their LIFETIME savings should be sent to DEATH !!!
The good ones that aren't socio/psychopaths likely are. Unfortunately a lot of them are terrible people.
Takes a girlfriend to ruin everything...
Takes 1 female to run it all.
All it took was Eve in the Garden of Eden to ruin the entire world for men FOREVER.
bohemoth1 bro shut up! Eve didn’t ruin it for just man but for mankind!
@@bohemoth1 Nope ! It was Adams weakness that lost us the garden of paradise. Eve was the temptress. Adam chose to commit the SIN. Adam was the first created human being too. He was the oldest. Just thought I'd add that as in a family, the oldest usually makes the final decision for the family. In reality they both made the decision to go against God, but Adam had a choice too. So don't place the blame squarely onto Eve. If Adam said, " I will obey God, " we might still have The Garden Of Eden, Paradise. Read this in the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis.
Bernita Centeno I partially agree although Eve wasn’t the temptress per say, the serpent was. The serpent singled out Eve Bc he knew that Eve would be weaker to temptation and Eve ate of the fruit first and then gave to her husband who then ate also. It was Eve first, but you’re right Adam knew better and should not have disobeyed God. I think it took Adam eating the fruit to really bring the world into sin Bc God gave the authority of Earth to Man (Adam) and so Adam also disobeying God, took the keys away from Adam if you will
He's a genius, & having him on our side makes us as a country all that much more secure, & powerful, with a computer sleuth like Kevin Myitnick
Hindsight He should of picked his "friends" more carefully. Twice he was ratted out.
Should of is not a real term. It is should have. Shouldve. Not should of. It seems 75% of people dont know this and its annoying.
@@alexanderlittle9786 Thanks I "could of" went the test of my live making that same mistake. Your the best. But I'm sure you know that.
@@mrdanger4851 hahahaha. Common mistake but i bet its annoying to be corrected on a youtube message. The least formal place ever.
@@alexanderlittle9786 I actually appreciated it. I have dyslexia.
"Never stop doing what you love" I'm sure Kevin knew this well
Absolutely.
N thanks for the good words.
This is what i really need now👍
If you find a system that is weak, break it, so they have to make it stronger!
Thumbs up for Mr. Mitnick. Like was mentioned "jealousy" is a big obstacle to pioneers.😊😊😎
Really a Gem of a Man. Its all in his honneur. He didnot cheat but only nourrished his passion. His judgement is not justifying cause he didnot use it for himself.
EXCEPT for the damage to the judge & repairs to system securities he was pretty innocent.
@@ohwhatelse indeed 👍
I’m very happy he didn’t actually steal any money. I’m also incredibly annoyed that they wasted so much of his time in jail when they could’ve used his skills.
I think he used theirs time in jail, since he get he's time to learn more.
He probably did steal money, but he knew how to do it without getting caught.
The idiocy of the "System" they should have utilized his genius and abilities from the beginning! Putting him in prison was gross stupidity!
They feared him as he was more advanced then the system wants you to be, they are bastards all those behind who went after him, ass wipes
That's just how they set the system to work
Most of his "hacking" was actually social engineering
Which means the people who let him in due to incompetence were the real criminals...
He should have been awarded so many times,given the fact that he was such a potential helper, not a stealer of money in any case...love this curious kid...also his friend who turned him in was such an asshole😒😒
SPD adventure
His so called friend was not an asshole. He was not a friend. He was a competitor in a game of Life and death. The reward was the respect of the rest of the wolf pack for the alpha male; and a well established pecking order, that all involved willingly submitted to.
That was phase one of any social group.
1. Established who is most capable of leadership.
2. Everyone else establishes where they fit in the chain of command by competency.
3. It seems they never got to phase three. Or did they? He now owns a world renowned company as the undisputed leading expert in the world.
PHASE 3 is as a well ordered group working together they showed the people in power that they had no power at all. That they were not the masters of there own creation. The billionaire corporation built the systems, by all knew Kevin owned them.
So it's easy to say so and so is an asshole, but you learn nothing when you carelessly dismiss the actions of an individual. His frienemy upped the game stakes. Said frenemy, immediately admitted defeat when he ratted out Kevin to the authorities and used the enemy (, being the establishment ) to do his dirty work.
The attitude was " okay you're better than me" :
Now let's see you get out of the trap of being caught for what you're better than me at.
Kevin rose to the challenge as was his reputation. He had the government's criminal Justice system wiped out all of his police records and court records and just for fun decided to do the same thing to the judge, that the judge was doing to him.
The judge got a taste of his own medicine, as perverse Justice was irrationally and illegally performed on The judge.
The result of all of this: Kevin has a high paying company that performs security checks, and he can name whatever price he wants. In effect he's become the internet Mafia extortion racket legalized.
Summary:
Always follow the money this is rule 1.
rule 2, find out how somebody is financially profiting from what they're doing, no matter how irrational/ follow the money.
3. When you find out how they're making money from whatever it is they're doing. Then all of their irrational dysfunctional behavior will become perfectly understandable. All of the actions or the behavior is to get to the dollar sign.
And Kevin's case it was 30 years researchand promoting that the world has to pay attention to him that he exists and that he's important and that he is a force to be reckoned with. The marketing and advertising campaign took 30 years.at the end of the 30 years he had his own company where he sat as basically Yoda, of his own computer Jedi force.
He now looks acts, and behaves like a mafia godfather.
He took:
all the lumps
took all the hits
took all the attacks
took all the risks
and PREVAILED.
He doesn't need a security clearance to work for the government. His security clearance would be to hire him without a security clearance; and tell him to break into the system. Then preventing anyone else from doing the same.
@@reypolice5231 but he didn;t do it for the money. rule 1 - never assume
Never trust anyone you can only trust yourself
Jesus was betrayed buy his best friend , 13 pieces of silver.
@@ardentares1167 always remember there's no one in this world that won't do you wrong if it will save their own ass and you are correct trust no one ..............
They should make a movie about him. Like catch me it you can! Part 2
seems like a good idea
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is the old movie War Games based partialy on this boy ?
They did make a movie. Its called " hakers " :)
Lol I just got the joke
To think the only times he ended up in jail were due to the jealousy of those around him and his own choice. Take those away and he could have slipped through the fingers of history.
Misery likes company
I think he is a good person, though he did some mistakes. Incredible talent!
You, are greatly mislead
@@patrickwannafightaboutit6338 you're the only one thinking this... No likes???
@@tonyamedsker497 you are greatly mislead
@@patrickwannafightaboutit6338 ACTUALLY Im not. I have yo APOLOGIZE because my comment was meant for the person saying hes a good person. Sorry
@@tonyamedsker497 he is a good person? And very, very smart. He shouldve gotten a job, not jail.
Moral of the story, don't poss off nerds. They will ruin you.
"Pass"
Don’t correct someone if you can’t do it correctly. It’s “piss”
I promise I won't poss off anybody.
He was a hacker with MORALS!! The fact that he did NOT steal any money shows he has a good character.
This Sounds Abit Like The Kid In The Movie WARGAMES
Do. You. Want. To. Play. A. Game?
So true
I thought it was more like the 1995 movie called ‘Hackers’ and the best hacker in the movie was the character Dade Murphy aka ‘Zero Cool’ aka ‘Crash Override’.
@@Erin-Thor Global Thermal Nuclear War
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Reminds me of the movie "catch me if u can" if u can't beat em, hire em..
Wow.
Or person of interest.
HE WALKED IN AND "CONFESSED"!!! I THINK HE WAIVED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL!
HE KNEW HE DESERVED WHAT HE GOT & WAS WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE! THERE SHOULD BE MORE PPL LIKE HIM WHO FESS UP & TAKE THEIR CONSEQUENCES!!! MORE ppl should have that much integrity!!!! I hope he does very well the rest of his life.
He CERTAINLY ISN'T a thief!
Can you imagine if 45 and al the Corporate Welfare Queens did the same, as his/her crimes have been and are a lot more serious than this situation? Kevin is a true enterpreneur, not the posers who go with their hands out to govt when their own poor decisions usually go wrong. I can go on about how same have the tax code covers their theft.
He only caused 80 million dollars worth of damage!
@@ranstra12 if indeed he did, that's no big deal, he saved billions.??? In future losses.
Every time I run across this story I got to watch it every time. Just think how many lives he has saved.
smart kid! a more enlightened society never would've locked him up; they would've immedately realized ho valuable he is to help companies prevent hacking
I am the same age as him. When I was 18 I learned how to make free phone calls on any pay phone. I learned other phone hacking too.
It was not that hard. If I had been around others of that kind, no telling how much trouble I would have been in.
When I was in my mid 20's I made friends with Bell telephone programmers. But that was only to learn C computer language.
Can u teach me
lol does it look like a bunch of green 0s and 1s in rows like in movies?
Captain crunch.
FACT - Nobody has ever heard of the Best Computer Thieves/Hackers. Because they are too smart to ever get caught.
He could find missing people and even make using the internet safer
And be in support of lewd cute Waifus on the Internet also🤣😂😂
Hackers are a different breed. They are egotistical, jealous and spiteful.
I hope this dude is interested in helping the world and finding the ones responsible for world destruction. He has the skills to get all the information he wants to remove corruption from the world
Julian Assange tried that already . Where is he now ?
You are that stupid? A morally grounded normal person could see from space that he has no interest in the bettering and safety of othwrs
@@johannacannata1090 Julian Assange needs to be released, immediately or it’s obvious that the storm of Capital Hill is what the Founding Fathers wanted for America!...
The major companies and FBI should hire this guy. He was not self serving or greedy. He is just intellectually curious, what a missed opportunity for our government to hire him to work for us. He is a misunderstood genus.
I agree with earlier comments....he should have been put in charge of FBI & CIA security systems....genius often goes unrecognised for many years....
He is truly interesting with twist of tragic he was the invisible boy-man. It must've been exhilarating......
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I'm glad he's on our side
Holy shit....
My Grandparents told the story of this dude.... the crazy shit is,this dude is family.
Wink...smilin
I practice freaking with my girlfriend only thing i got out of that was a baby😂😂😂🤣
Wow........what a wonderful talent.
He is not a hacker, he is a genius . I understand that he interrupted some people's privacy but never steal from them. If I were him I would be a multibillionaire hiding somewhere safe.
There is nothing more hazardous than being smarter than people in charge.
This is an amazing thank you for sharing
Wow! Thanks to him, his ethical standards in hacking had revamped the computer security standards ❤️
An extremely intelligent young man. Just goes to show what ppl can do with what they have a real interest in & aptitude for when they apply themselves. I think of my own interests back when I was young... I didn't even have a home if i didnt wotk there. No computers then, either! I just spent my time WORKING & didnt have time for school. I was 38 before I made it to college! BUT, I got my degree- and worked.
Just think, he did all this BESIDES his class work! Whew! Good thing he didn't have to make a living too!
Where is he now? He's like Mozart! He should get the recognition and support he deserves because he could save the world! We need him to protect our country from cyber attack. I hope he's doing alright. What a guy!!
This guy is truely a legend and inspiring. What a great man.
A beautiful mind, and soul
It's true that talented people are born infrequently. But they're born no less frequently than anybody else. We're all born exactly once.
Lol
When I was a chemistry professor from 1973 to 1977 a young man arrived at my office with a “blue box”. He connected it to my office phone, dialed the chairman of my department. There was no answer so my boss put his phone down. From that moment on I could hear everything spoken in my boss’s office. He spoke to other professors about me. I could tell they were conspiring against me, to get me fired.
Well Done! Young man! BRAVO!
In the last picture "WOZ" sure looks impressed. lol.
He is very honest and has a great mind✅🎯
Life Goals. 🤷♂️ Can't help but admire that kind of skill and ethics. 👍👍
"The police of the ENTIRE United States" hmm interesting.
Well said.
Or not at all.
As opposed to the police of the entire world.
@@djquinn11 You mean, the United States?
I’m cheering and love him. I wish to be like him. I would never inform on him. I would consider him more than the president of the USA and many other heroes. He is my hero and I’m rooting and admire him. Definitely thumb up. 👍👍👍💚
Even if he was still hacking his subjects are too stupid to know.
This young man fascinates me ... what a brilliant mind for languages ...
Makes me think of the movie “Catch me if you can.”
Excellent movie! New kid walks into the classroom, instantly realizes the teacher will be late and poses as the substitute teacher and immediately identify the cool kid and proceeds to humiliate him. First thing, first day.
I can't believe the woman who turned in the group of hackers. Revenge never works. I wonder how her life went afterwards and does she regret her treacherous behavior.
Janis Gay : makes me wonder if she was in trouble for something and turned in the hackers to lessen her punishment.
i feel like every hacker story always has to do with bus tickets.
What I find to be the most compelling feature of Kevin was that he truly was doing what he loved. He could have wreaked such havoc if he was doing it for self-gain. But, he wasn't and as such is a glimpse of what people could be. His heart is truly the more salient feature when compared with his mind.
Ah yes. Kevin Mitnick. He influenced "War Games" after hacking NORAD. And now he's a computer _security_ consultant. Go figure.
Brilliant! He exposed the flaws in that system 👍👍😊
*_WOW ! ! !_* 👍😜 *_MOVIE PLS._*
Umm what
I was working for DIGITAL in Colorado Springs when he hacked them and we were all told about it in a meeting about cyber security.... He is a very smart man.
Glad that Kevin Mitnik turned back to the Light Side 🔵 from the Dark Side ⚫ like when he just wanted to ride in the City Buses ... Thank God he now help the Homeland Security for Protecting the Innocents! Thank You Kevin Mitnik >>> Computer Hacker Extraordinaire! 🕯
How many lol when he wreaked havoc on the judge 😁🤣😂 😁
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I was born in 1970; at age 14 I got a Commodore Vic 20. It had (2000 bytes) of ram, yes 2kb. Home computers weren't a thing; much less in 1978 when he was 15. You had to have a company computer to do the level of work he was. Mostly there were no laws preventing access to a company computer as it was only used by them and people with a computer to get in. Basically they left a back door open and he walked right in. The laws stopping us from "hacking in"; were governed by the telephone company (FCC). Most notably was wire-tapping. That was the closest law that could be considered broke (if he was just snooping around and didn't put money in his account). Imagine your biggest fear of breaking into a corporate computer was the telephone company will come to get you. Now why didn't they give him a job? Well, he was best at what he was doing, he was the one criminal that needed catching. Think of a thief walking through an open door, are you going to give him a job because he's good at it? Nope. Early on, he was tampering with phones and phone lines, not necessarily using a computer, but a similar set of skills. To get into a computer system in the late 70's; you connected your computer to a phone line and it dialed a phone number. You can't analyze what he was doing based on today's technology. What bugs me is back then they used an auto dialer to call every number in an area until it got a computer response and not someone saying "hello" this is how they found phone numbers of possible use to pass around to other hackers. Today scammers do this all the time, Tell me have you not recieved a "local" phone call only to find it's someone in India or elsewhere? They may just hang up. What they are really doing is seeing what phone numbers are live (a person or potential victim) and later you get calls from other scammers. They sell this information. Most of the time it is the same area code and prefix to your own cell phone. If you call that number back; someone answers, very confused because they never called you. Why is this a bigger problem unsolved today and not 40 F*!@#*(( years ago. I guess it's because so few did it then and now it's just common place. Some moron had the audacity to tell me my social security number was being revoked and I should call now. - you can change your name, your gender, your religion but you will never change your social security number (unless witness protection or something like that) and it can't be revoked!!! Great story about him, we just need to understand what was going on back then to make sense of it.
Can't help thinking of my old Timex Sinclair.
When I worked at Toyota as a computer programmer, Kevin Mitnick came to Toyota to give a talk on cyber security to the Information Systems department as part of his judicial sentence.
Thank yous for sharing, Kevin amazing craftsmanship...
Almost like caught me if you can, story
Nicely done, quick presentation!
I followed this ‘Kevin’ story as it surfaced in the 80’s onward, & was always fascinated by him, never considering him a bad person.
With his talents, he could have been truly evil in wreaking immense damage.
People forget that @ one time. Steve Jobs & ‘the WOZ’ were ‘phone phreaks entrepreneurs’ like Kevin.… & making $$$ in their efforts.
There’s a number of good books written about Kevin, though only one referenced in this video […& one of the best].
He must hate the movie "Hackers" as they used him as inspiration for the male lead.
Not seen it but want to now lol
@@darksayian5369 on paper it sounds like a good movie and it is literally Johnny Lee Miller's and Angelina Jolie's first starring roles as well as having a random Penn Juliette as a nighttime IT security guy and Matthew Lillard for comic relief.
Where it all falls down is the execution with a ton of misused terms, goofy hacking visuals, and everything already being horribly obsolete before the movie came out.
They have 1 painful scene where they are all admiring a new computer with a cutting edge blazing fast 28.8 k modem.
The movie is popular with many computer people but as a straight bad comedy rather than the thriller it was meant to be.
The video failed to tell us that Kevin himself is a computer from Mars just FYI
Real talented.. Defence department shud gv him a good job nor think otherwise
An intelligent person.he could easily gain admission into any first rate college had he choose to and made good.nonetheless he did contribute something to computer security.
They should make a movie about his life...
Still may
Great story!
An amazing person indeed!
His life deserves to be made into a Movie Film.👍👍👍
Amazing person🙏🙏
Respect for him..from heart
God loves you he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins he is so good because he brings happiness and joy and if u ever need help in bad times just pray ❤️🙏😊🥰
Hacker ...
God gets 1/10. He has created a defective product and any self respecting God would produce only quality creations with the supposed powers they possess.
I read his book, Ghost in the wires, you should too!
One of the coolest people on earth!
There is a hilarious movie called Hackers
that involves the story of this clever young man.
I immediately thoughtbof that movie whime watching this
From running from the FBI to helping the FBI.
I was one of these telephone hacking victims. We live in Israel. At 1992 this kind of exorbitant telephone bills washed the country, and when the telephone owners asked the reason of these ridiculous high prices to the only one Israeli "Bezeq Corporation" telephonia company then, to know why we were paying so much, they discovered that these numbers were used for long erotic conversations and outside Israel... for us it was in the Caribbean islands, but under our private telephone number!!!!. At 1993 my daughter was a timid quiet 11 y old girl and my son 13, and we had to pay 1000 dollars for a telephone bill !!! Bezeq accused our children of doing it, when we stopped paying our bills.... The hours these conversations were registered in the bills coincided with school hours and children were not at home!!! Nobody in this telephonia company made anything to help us out , and so we agreed to be cut out of membership with Bezeq corporation for 7 and a half years, during which we remained without a telephone at home, till we bought our first cellphone. at the beginning of 21st century.
I loved this video.what a smart man,and not greedy.
Interesting! A black hat hacker using a reversible hat. Black one minute, flip it over, its white. Flip it back...it’s black. As seen on TV!!
Give this man a JOB! Are you kidding ME! He didn’t gain anything from his activities. He just perfected his passion. Maybe it’s good he wasn’t offered one because it allowed him to start his own business using the what he learned! Took a long time to get to that point. Shocked no one saw potential in him sooner, just lock him up. Crazy!
EVERY TIME it’s a pissed off woman who sends everyone to prison....remember that.
Rather impressive.
PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD USE HIS SKILLS, TALENTS, WISDOM
Excellent outcome
Innit ironic that as an accused criminal a 15 year old is called a young man, but if he was a victim of crime he would be a 15 year old boy.
Kids a genius. Creative Minds start out Young
This sounds similar like the movie, “War Games”. Except it’s not base on a true story or hacking from the Military’s system.
Repair broken systems, don't profit from them. I can't say i would have been as selfless as him, but he is amazing.
what a shame. if he offered to help law enforcement he could have dond wonders (of the world).
Aside from Neo, the Architect hates this guy the most.