Says Mitnick: When I read about myself in the media, even I dont recognize me.
One rumor making the rounds was that Mitnick could launch nuclear missiles merely by whistling into a telephone.
Three judges denied Mitnick bail and ordered him held in solitary confinement, where he stayed for eight months.
In April Mitnick's parole officer ordered him to stop freelance writing or speaking publicly.
Ex-hackers sometimes find work as security consultants, but few find it as easily as Kevin Mitnick.
Markoff, he said, single-handedly created the myth of Kevin Mitnick, which everyone is using to advance their own agendas.
Indeed, prison officials have at times imbued Mitnick with powers befitting James Bond.
The convoluted reasoning: Mitnick had agreed as a condition of his release not to consult on computer-related activity.
Now that Mitnick has served the five years and is out on supervised release, the government isn't letting go.
Prosecutors were reluctant to give Mitnick a laptop to prepare his defense.
Kevin David Mitnick, 35, is arguably the worlds most famous computer hacker.
It went on to say Mitnick, as a teenager, had hacked the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), foreshadowing the movie War Games.
Now 36 years old, Mitnick was arrested in 1995 following a two-year FBI manhunt, and sentenced to 46 months for hacking into corporate computers.
Mitnick might have passed unknown into history, had it not been for all the attention focused on him by reporter John Markoff of the New York Times.
Mitnick, by contrast, is barred from profiting from his story.
Mitnick was once placed in solitary confinement because prison officials were afraid he could turn his walkman into an FM transmitter that could be used to bug the wardens office.
Had it not been for the Times coverage, this would have been over years ago, Mitnick told FORBES GLOBAL late last month, in one of his first interviews since going to jail four years ago.
In the meanwhile, Mitnick has been serving out a 14-month sentence for violating his probation in the Digital break-in and eight months for a 1995 North Carolina charge of possession of an unauthorized access device.
" Christopher Painter, the deputy chief for cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Justice who once prosecuted Kevin Mitnick, one of the first notorious hackers, adds:"Indications are that this is becoming a more financially motivated thing.
Silent treatment A year ago we argued that the U.S. federal government had overreacted when it sentenced the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, 36, to five years in jail--more time than most plea-bargaining killers serve (" Kevin Mitnick, the hackers' first martyr").
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