Perhaps the most widely stated myth about him is that he was strictly a social engineer without significant technical experience. It is undeniable that Mitnick committed crimes but it was unreasonable for the FBI to have made him a top priority for capture. All he wanted to do was get into corporate sites, download code, play with the code and then move on to the next target. Left on his own, he would likely have been harmless. Mitnick notes that he thinks it was the federal prosecutor who got that idea from the movie WarGames.īut no one really knew Mitnick or what he was about. The latter myth was responsible for him spending a year in solitary confinement. Some of the myths were that he was responsible for the phone of actress Kristy McNichol to be disconnected, and perhaps the most preposterous of them all, that he could whistle into a telephone and launch missiles from NORAD. Kevin Mitnick's fascinating firsthand story Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
In the book, he attempts to dispel these myths and set the record straight." Read below for the rest of Ben's review. In Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the Worlds Most Wanted Hacker, the first personal account of what really happened Mitnick says most of the stories around him were the result of the myth of Kevin Mitnick, and nothing more. Just one example is John Markoff, who became a star journalist for his work at The New York Times, and a follow-up book and series of articles based on Mitnick. Anyone who could have an angle on Mitnick was sought after by the media to provide a sound bite on the world's most dangerous computer hacker. Brothke writes "During the 1990's when Kevin Mitnick was on the run, a cadre of people were employed to find him and track him down.
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