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Even the most dangerous criminal suspects are usually allowed access to a telephone, but not Kevin Mitnick -- or at least not without being under a guard's eye. And then he is permitted to call only his wife, mother and lawyer. The reason is that putting a phone in Mitnick's hands is like giving a gun to a hit man. The 25-year-old sometime college student is accused by federal officials of using the phone system to become one of the most formidable computer break-in artists of all time...
...Mitnick, who was arraigned last week in Los Angeles and is being held without bail, faces a possible 30 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England, and stealing valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate...
...Mitnick has apparently compiled a long history of computer capers. At 17 he used the phone system to enter Pacific Bell's computer network and steal electronically stored technical manuals, earning himself six months in a juvenile-detention facility followed by probation. Perhaps not coincidentally, the judge in the case later discovered that electronic files at a credit- information service had been mysteriously altered to downgrade the judge's credit rating. And a telephone belonging to a probation officer assigned to Mitnick's case was disconnected, although the phone company had no record of having done...
...December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...
...roars across the stage in a number called Anything Is Possible, a paean to the American dream in which Kaplan outlines his own humble wish to have a tailor's shop with his name over it. He gets it, and he also gets his night-school sweetheart, Rose Mitnick (Barbara Minkus...