For Kevin Mitnick, staying legal is job one
Kevin Mitnick was eager to participate in a social-engineering contest at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last weekend and was told he would target Microsoft in the event.
He figured it would be fun to show off his schmoozing skills, which he so easily used to trick employees at tech companies in the 1990s into handing over passwords and other sensitive information, ultimately landing him in jail.
But when he called his attorney to run it past him, the response was "Are you crazy?!"
Given Mitnick's high-profile status and his guilty plea to four counts of wire fraud for misrepresenting his identity to gain information from Novell, Motorola, Nokia and Fujitsu, his attorney suggested that it was probably better to sit this one out.
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