[OT] Kevin Mitnick film

[Paul King]

Hello

I am sure that other people on this list saw this Emmanuel Goldstein/2600 
production of the arrest and jailing of Kevin Mitnick. To register my opinion (if 
anyone cares :-)), I thought I would say that if those things he said were true, 
I don't think the main characters of the film garners my sympathy. At one point 
in the film, the crew is standing out in the Sun Microsystems parking lot, trying 
to phone in. They are scrambling for an alternate phone number, they complain 
about not being able to access the Web to get the phone number. No-one thinks 
about using the yellow pages.

Also, the idea of scruffy-looking people going to corporate offices to advocate 
for a friend who is suffering in prison (if we agree that his reasons for being 
there are unjust), is bad advocacy. I don't think I would want the kind of 
friends that are more concerned about making a statement -- by appearing scruffy 
(let's face it, you have to play the game the corporate way if you want anything 
from them and clean up your appearance), or even by bringing a camera into 
lobbies and offices without permission (what do they think they are doing?) than 
about freeing their friend from prison -- a cause which should have been ahead of 
the making of the documentary. This is unbelievably immature.

Paul King

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