Re: [NTLK] NTLK OT Kevin Mitnick's laptop

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 10:24:33 EDT


on 10/3/02 9:45 AM, Mark Rollins at mark_at_mrollins.com wrote:

>
>> Kevin Mitnick's laptop
> One thing I always found funny _ although I hate "crackers" - is that if
> Mitnick caused the huge monetary damages claimed by the 'crackees', where
> was this info on their SEC filings and annual reports?
>

Perhaps on the same line where the entertainment and software industries
report their (virtual) losses due to piracy? ;-)

Is a corollary to Mitnick's travails that pop-up windows and the like
constitute criminal hacking because they steal CPU cycles from my (and your)
computer? Hmmm... I wonder how many $/microsecond the charges against
Mitnick amounted to? I think those folks at X10 are going to owe me some
major bucks! ;-)

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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