[OT] Kevin Mitnick film

[Ken Burtch]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 07:16 -0500, Paul King wrote:
> 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.

It's a movie so I expect some artistic license.  The Mitnick affair has
been debated ever since the book "Cyberpunk" came under fire for
twisting the facts about Mitnick and his friends to make a better read.
However, to the movie's credit, I believe these events happened before
the Web, or at least in the very early days, so not using the Web to get
the phone number is probably accurate.

KB

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