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billy_gates:
Kevin Mitnick is free, isn't that great?

voidmain:
I don't understand what's so great about it. Cracker gets busted, cracker gets put in jail. Do the crime, do the time. I take steps above and beyond to secure my systems but if someone goes out of their way to bust into them I would like to see them punished. If I could physically get my hands on them I would punish them myself but that usually isn't possible.

choasforages:
it wasn't so much the grief that he cuased, its how much shit was said about his capabilitys. and the way is case was handled

Master of Reality:
...like putting him in solitary confinement because they thought he could start a nuclear war with just a telephone.

mobrien_12:
On one hand, I think the law tried to make an example of him and exaggerated the damage he did (they said he stole millions of dollars of software, which he never released or used).  It's also _not_ cool that they held him for so long without bail or a trial.  

On the other hand, he brought all this on himself.  
 As I recall, he got busted once but couldn't stop breaking into systems.  He wasn't doing it to make a pollitical statement (like those guys who keep hacking RIAA).

He sounds like a highly intelligent screw-up who pissed off the wrong people.

I wish him luck in his new legitimate career.  Unfortunately, it's an uphill battle since he (rightly so) has had no computer access for many years.

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