Mitnick was a bully – no more, no less – who abused people who tried to stop him from stealing. He’s no better than the thug who threatens to (and then follows up on) beat up somebody who saw him carrying a TV out of a broken storefront window.

Yeah – stories abound of his being able to do tons of very nasty stuff – but they should be given the same weight as the threats of the thug (assuming the thug was convicted) who could shoot the Mayor. That thug would be forbidden to carry a gun. Mitnick should be forbidden from going near his weapon.

There are lots of jobs that one can do that do net entail using a computer, and Mitnick should be limited to those jobs, many of which can pay well for the highly skilled. Have you hired a skilled mason recently? They are paid well, and good ones are very skilled.

Just as the convicted thug would not be allowed to be a police officer (or do any other job that requires carrying a gun), Mitnick should be kept away from his weapon of choice.
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mitnick was never as dangerous as they claimed him to be. the information he ’stole’ was available to the public.

they broke more laws catching mitnick than he actually broke.

you are very misinformed. kevin mitnick was just all hype

I never said Mitnick was an angel, and to be honest that whole “free Kevin” movement was before my time, but if Freedom Downtime is to be believed then the media portrayed him as being able to steal everyone’s first born son a la The Penguin in Batman Returns by having access to a scientific calculator.

Any books or Web sites or whatever with your point of view (“Mitnick is a thug”) you care to mention I’d be glad to read.

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Yeah – stories abound of his being able to do tons of very nasty stuff – but they should be given the same weight as the threats of the thug (assuming the thug was convicted) who could shoot the Mayor. That thug would be forbidden to carry a gun. Mitnick should be forbidden from going near his weapon.

There are lots of jobs that one can do that do net entail using a computer, and Mitnick should be limited to those jobs, many of which can pay well for the highly skilled. Have you hired a skilled mason recently? They are paid well, and good ones are very skilled.

Just as the convicted thug would not be allowed to be a police officer (or do any other job that requires carrying a gun), Mitnick should be kept away from his weapon of choice.