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...KEVIN MITNICK, 31, STOOD IN THE federal courtroom, his hands cuffed-unable, for the first time in more than two years, to feel the silky click of computer keys. He glanced over at Tsutomu Shimomura, the computer-security expert whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout...
Across the country, computer-network security experts, though, were talking a lot last week, calling the entire Mitnick affair a watershed moment-not for what it proves about the hacker but for what it says about the systems he hacked. At a time when American businesses are frantic to set up shop on the computer networks, those networks-and the telecommunications systems that carry their traffic-are turning out to be terminally insecure. One of the things Mitnick is believed to have stolen from Shimomura's computer is a set of utility programs-the electronic equivalent of a locksmith...
Even before Kevin Mitnick got his hands on these burglar's tools, says William Cheswick, a network-security specialist at AT&T Bell Labs, the average computer on the Internet was singularly vulnerable to attack. Security at most sites, says Cheswick, is so lax that passwords and other protective devices are almost a waste of time. "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back," says Cheswick. "I don't need jackhammers and atom bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door...
Hacker Kevin Mitnick was ordered held without bond by a federal magistrate in Raleigh, N.C. Mitnick was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh and faces up to 35 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if he is convicted of computer fraud and illegal use of a telephone device. Mitnick appeared before the magistrate in shackles and waived his right to a probable cause and bond hearing. The FBI says that Mitnick's online exploits included breaking into computer systems to steal 20,000 credit card numbers belonging to subscribers of Netcom, an internet provider...
...arrest yesterday of Kevin Mitnick ? described as the world''s most notorious computer hacker ? raises troubling new questions about commercial interactions in cyberspace, says TIME technology writer Josh Quittner. Mitnick, 31, was able over the years to hack into various computer systems and get access to privileged information from big-name companies like Digital, Motorola and NEC. He also obtained a copy of credit card numbers of 20,000 members of Netcom, a San Jose-based Internet provider. "If Netcom can''t keep those numbers secure, how can L.L. Bean?" says Quittner. Most troubling is the fact Mitnick...