Day: May 4, 2004

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Kevin Mitnick a Hero?

For those of you that don’t know, Kevin Mitnick is the famous hacker that was all over the news way back when for being a hacker. They also based the movie Hackers on his story.

Via Plastic QL:

Kevin Mitnick has been labelled a hero in the small town of River Rouge, Michigan where he helped capture a 15-year old student who was phoning in bomb threats into the local high school. How did he do it? “I gave them the same techniques that [Tsutomu] Shimomura used to track me.”

Here’s a version of the story in by Kevin Poulsen in The Register.

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Go Flames Go

I haven’t watched much hockey in my life, but I did watch the Calgary Flames beat the Detroit Redwings last night, 1 – 0. It was a very intense game with the only goal being scored late in the first over time period. I think it might be the only time I’ve watched an NHL game from start to finish. The only other time I’ve ever even really followed the playoffs at all was in 1989 and that was the year the Flames won the Stanley Cup. This past few weeks the Redwings were speculated to be “the team to beat” so hopefully it’ll be all downhill from here for the Flames.