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The article states: "After about six months we got the phone service back but we could only make outgoing calls."
I'm pretty sure that the statement should read "... but we could only receive incoming calls."
- by bridge solution June 23, 2009 4:44 PM PDT
- how easily people overlook the destructive code. much of what mittnick did as not illegal when it was done. 4 years for the state to determine charges? musical chairs with jurisdictions?
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (41 Comments)and poeple say, well, fair enuff. after all, he must have been "bad" or he would not have been chased.
during the time mittnick was on the run i was doing some work that involved interfacing fbi records with local government. i watched a convicted heroin dealer get a secure connection to the ncic database by having a county official misread a regulation about fema...another example of the social hack....which lasted 2 months.
gamers like mittnick are essential to the system as long as sloppiness is tolerated.